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      05-27-2006, 09:07 PM   #1
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How well do you know the United States?

Place the states on a map.
http://sickflash.com/usa_education.html

The states come up randomly so the difficulty really depends on which ones you get first.


45/50- I got like all of the darn square midwest states wrong haha they all look the same

90% right
average error 39 miles
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      05-27-2006, 09:18 PM   #2
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68%

Average Error: 68 miles

Time: 187 seconds

This is lame though, I knew where the general locations where. And that voice makes me want to strangle someone.
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      05-27-2006, 11:01 PM   #3
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Avg Error: 82 miles
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      05-29-2006, 10:24 PM   #4
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95% error 15 miles
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      05-29-2006, 10:47 PM   #5
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76% , 87 miles, 214 seconds. Ho hum, need some more grade 3 Canadian geography (or sleep). Make sure your score is better than this Albertan!
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70%
88 miles
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i made my 11 year old brother do this and he did better than me
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      05-29-2006, 11:03 PM   #7
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it was a bitch to place the states in the middle when you didn't have any reference, easy to miss by a few miles!
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      05-29-2006, 11:19 PM   #9
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it was a bitch to place the states in the middle when you didn't have any reference, easy to miss by a few miles!
yeah that was my problem too. :P
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      05-29-2006, 11:31 PM   #10
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I'd probably do better for a world map version of this.
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      05-29-2006, 11:39 PM   #11
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I thought some would snap in place when you got pretty close so I got lazy with the really really obvious ones like Texas and it gave me an error.

Ended up with 42 out of 50 | 84% | 35 Miles | 225sec
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Great minds think exactly alike! 80% here too. But 350 seconds instead of your 428... my young mind is processing information faster?
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Great minds think exactly alike! 80% here too. But 350 seconds instead of your 428... my young mind is processing information faster?
Ha! Look at the Avg Error distance though. I took my time to place my states closer to where they belonged.
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First time 35(70%) and 500 seconds or so. And I don't even live there
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Let's try a map of Africa now
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My first try was not so good, 65% and 350secs, but as I am not living in the US I think it is reasonable.

Second try was much better (Apparently I have quite a good short term memory ) 82% 308secs
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82% average 66 miles 348 seconds.

Not bad for a igloo inhabitor from Montreal who eats beaver and seal and has snow all year'round.
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It probably also helped me that a few times in my life I have tried to draw the US map on a chalkboard from scratch. (I know, get a life).

Only trouble was placing one plains state in w/o neighbors or rivers. If you miss Alaska or Hawaii, I think you should consider moving to Canada, if you can find it.

One way to improve scores would be to drive across the country once, like I did with my brother. That was way cool, but would have been cooler in my e90!

I was wondering why people had so much difficulty, but after I showed it to someone, I found that the order of States is somewhat important in determining how well one does.

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