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jackVocabulary quiz: Free Rice
This vocabulary test is really great? Freerice, unlike a traditional vocab test, has a large dictionary and measures hardness of words by how many people get them right this means it's amazingly good at finding words right on the boundary of what you know, ones you've heard used somewhere, but can't quite place, rather than either being words anyone knows, or common long words, or words so obscure only people in specialist fields know them, or words simply famous for being obscure.
This gives an unfair advantage in the quiz to people who know words from having heard them used in books and conversations with articulate people, rather than people who read dictionaries for fun :) So it suits me.
The questions are tailored to your responses, after a few minutes finding their own level at a category of words you know 3/4 of. I could play all day.
Also, it (apparently) raises advertising revue, from which it donates to charity.
This morning, I got up to level 45/50 before starting getting them wrong. What do you get?
Geography quiz: Statetris
There've been many geography quizes going round that ask if you can place countries in europe, but this is so cool because it's Tetris!
Each country falls from the north, and you have to manoeuvre it into position. There's some clues, for instance, it has to be one of the ones on the bottom.
In the easy level the country is labelled. In intermediate, it isn't. In hard, it needs to be rotated to the correct orientation.
It's really satisfying because when you've completed all-but-one, the last country is Russia, which is really big, and really obvious, so it's such a release to be able to plonk it down with a thunderous crash to finish the level.
This vocabulary test is really great? Freerice, unlike a traditional vocab test, has a large dictionary and measures hardness of words by how many people get them right this means it's amazingly good at finding words right on the boundary of what you know, ones you've heard used somewhere, but can't quite place, rather than either being words anyone knows, or common long words, or words so obscure only people in specialist fields know them, or words simply famous for being obscure.
This gives an unfair advantage in the quiz to people who know words from having heard them used in books and conversations with articulate people, rather than people who read dictionaries for fun :) So it suits me.
The questions are tailored to your responses, after a few minutes finding their own level at a category of words you know 3/4 of. I could play all day.
Also, it (apparently) raises advertising revue, from which it donates to charity.
This morning, I got up to level 45/50 before starting getting them wrong. What do you get?
Geography quiz: Statetris
There've been many geography quizes going round that ask if you can place countries in europe, but this is so cool because it's Tetris!
Each country falls from the north, and you have to manoeuvre it into position. There's some clues, for instance, it has to be one of the ones on the bottom.
In the easy level the country is labelled. In intermediate, it isn't. In hard, it needs to be rotated to the correct orientation.
It's really satisfying because when you've completed all-but-one, the last country is Russia, which is really big, and really obvious, so it's such a release to be able to plonk it down with a thunderous crash to finish the level.
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Date: 2007-10-29 12:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-29 12:59 pm (UTC)Oh, me too. I don't see any reason to exclude them, they might be subconscious knowledge :)
Some of the most interesting I got right actually *where* from guessing it was related to another word, rather than the word itself.
it's presumably relatively legit when it comes to its donations.
Ah, thank you. I had assumed so, but hadn't actually confirmed it or anything, (and didn't want to imply I had, when so many links have unsupportable content.)
It's funny, there's no human way to leave it unspecified, I did the best I can, but if I'd simply said they did, it would imply I was endorsing that as fact, and if I said they "say" they did, it would sound like I didn't believe them :)