Name Ireland’s counties
This is doing the rounds. Have a go and give your result (remember cheaters never prosper)
You’ve ten minutes to get all 32.
I got them with 5.54 remaining
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Try picking on Sammy Morse who claims to have typed all 32 counties into the computer with 9:04 remaining. The game only offers 10 minutes to complete, so he is claiming to have typed them all in 56 seconds. IMHO this is physically impossible.
Tee hee, such a rush to call bullshit just because I’m faster than youse are. Think about it folks. 32 counties in 56 seconds is a typing speed of 35 words per minute, which is hardly exceptional. Others have posted similar times.
Physically impossible? My arse. A good copy typist could do it in 30 secs as long as they knew their geography. USA talks shit even beyond the usual standards of his countrymen.
My initial time of 8:52 remaining (1:08 total time) is still the winner.
US states 7:53 remaining, lost 20 seconds trying to remember how to spell Massachusetts!
English counties, 7:46, Huntingdonshire was the hard one!
Want a hard one – try the Shipping Forecast areas in 8 minutes!!!
Managed Shipping Forecast areas managed with 2:50 to spare. The real bogies were Portland, Viking, Sole and (unbelievably) Shannon, which I stared at for a couple of minutes making such far fetched suggestions as Valentia, Mizen and Blaskets, all of which I more or less knew were wrong.
Sammy,
Congratulations. You are a true nerd!
Do you own a boat?
Sadly, no. I’m a radio ham (hence the user name) and a totally hardcore geography nerd!
And for my contribution to the genre I managed the fifty states with 6:38 remaining.
The silent c in Connecticut had me going for a while.
Sammy Morse,
Your comment about 35 words per minute seemed painfully obvious to me and I do agree a typist would have no difficulty typing at that speed.
So I tried the Irish one again and typed all 32 in 1 min 34 seconds, which gives a lot more credence to your position. If I was inclined to do it again I am sure I would improve. (but I could never beat you Sammy).
I guess this is a long winded way of saying sorry Sammy, it seems you are right, getting all 32 in slightly over one minute is possible.
USA, as your lawyer, I advise you to do the math before admitting guilt. A word in WPM is five characters. So you need to add up all the characters in the counties and divide them by 32 to the get the number of WPM. That’s a lot more WPM and therefore a much higher typing speed than Sammy would have you believe.
And, of course, to devide the number of words by the time it took to do the test (just in case that part wasn’t obvious).
Err, devide the total number of all charecters in the 32 counties by 5 to get the number of words, rather.
Maybe I’ll wave my fee on this consultation.
*Waive, too.
Dewi,
There is one for Wales. I could manage only 10/13 though.
There is also one for Scotland for all you speakers of the hamely tongue out there.
Thanks Picador – they’ve spelt Meirionethshire incorrectly as Merionethshire by the way…. (It should be Sir Feirionydd anyway so who cares…) onto Scotland…
Scotland the killer – 23 out of 33 – pathetic…
Maybe I’ll wave my fee on this consultation?
Bish Bosh!
I got 40 out of 50 US state capitals – beat that Sammy Morse !!!
08:17 remaining
Could have been faster if I could type better!
Pulled Jefferson City out of the back of my mind with 26 seconds to go for the state capitals!!!
The Shipping Forecast
LOL
rain , wind , westerly , gale force 8 , ( in any combination )
Brilliant:) I’ll have a go this evening
And a belated ‘happy’ St Davids Day for Dewi despite the Parisian result
Fellow nerds,
Yeah I liked the state capitols one – 46/50
Try Presidents of the US.
Or states of Mexico!
“Pulled Jefferson City out of the back of my mind with 26 seconds to go for the state capitals!!! ”
I give up – Sammy you are an example to us all !!!!
Lol GF have you heard the Rhod Gilbert line “I didn’t know you could take a Kagool off till I was 6″
Picador – I want to be Sammy Morse when I grow up….
Dewi,
Let’s see if his US history is so good.
I did appalingly with the Scottish counties, 18/32. Ironically I did ok with the counties in the north but only got Berwickshire from the counties along our border. I am going to try the Welsh one now…..
Doh! 7/13. This time missed 3 which border England, and I thought I knew and understood the neighbours? I dread to think how I would get on with the French Departments!
Let’s see if his US history is so good.
I doubt it. Off to try now.
37/44. Missed Harrison, Tyler, Fillmore, Pierce, Hayes, Garfield and Harrison. Some of whom I had never heard of.
Right US Prezzos for it to beat Sammy M…
Got them all and quick too. Our owl headmaster bait them into us, we had to learn them by province too. All I had to do was regress in to a terrified dark corner of my brain and out they all came! Can name all the rivers too, not sure what constituted a river, but he presented us with a list, and we learned it!
I knew all those hammerings I got would prove useful one day.
41….so there….
And they count Grover C twice always – Obama really the 43rd President…..
Our owl headmaster bait them into us, we had to learn them by province too.
Easiest way to do it minus the beating of course, which I’m sure you are exaggerating in any case.
Starting at the top and traveling anti-clockwise there are NINE in Ulster, FIVE in Connaught SIX in Munster and the remaining TWELVE are in Leinster.
Dave,
glad you are my lawyer and not my stockbroker
Sammy Morse,
I finished the US states five minutes before I even started – beat that
Ireland: kicking myself for missing Limerick and Wicklow.
English counties and European countries a dawdle. European capitals slightly harder. Vaduz and Pristina took a while and I wasted precious time trying variations of the hague before I twigged.
Asian countries, missed Bahrain, Qatar and the flippin Phillipines.
USA: couldn’t spell conneticut or however it is and missed Wyoming.
Africa: Comoros never competed in African football tournaments until recently and they were arsey about the spelling of Sao Tome e Principe, at least that’s my excuse.
Where’s the Spanish provinces one?
Right I’m off to do something more productive like get drunk.
[i]Name Ireland’s counties[/i]
How many does the republic have?
Posted by picador on Mar 03, 2009 @ 08:20 AM
I do not exaggerate in the slightest. I recalled the exact sequence we had learned them in from over 30 years ago as if the master was looming behind me with the meter stick he had specially cut in half to shorten the length and taped back together to double the thickness ready to wallop the crap out of me (or anyone else) who failed to meet his expectations for that day. Our times tables recitals were fun times too, I’ll swear he was airbourne on the down stroke with that thing, but I know them all, without hesitation.
That was primary school, grammar school got much better, there were multiple psychopaths with an array if new torture instruments to deal with there. And, there seemed to be no association between the floggings and if it was actually making you learn anything. They made the old primary school master seem like a saint.
Maybe I’m older than you?
McGrath – has it made you a better person?
Posted by dewi on Mar 03, 2009 @ 08:41 PM
Maybe, but I cant speak for the rest of the class. Have you younger generations missed out on something? Can they recite their counties, does it matter?
I will say I feel the old corporal punishment system made it seem like violence was a perfectly acceptable way of dealing with things, however the modern evolution of the old system is quite mad, quite over compensated. I did not thrive in my early education years because there seemed to be just one student mold and teachers tended to beat you into it or leave you behind. Now by comparison, it seems like there is an eternity of time to accommodate pupils and a multitude of approaches. Its obviously better in some regards.