eyeballing

I just took this eyeballing test twice and scored 4.15 both times. I'm particularly bad at finding the centers of triangles, and I'm good at midpoints, bisecting angles, and convergence points. I'm amazed looking at the high scores...how does someone score below a 2.0 on this thing?

blue-green blindness?

Apparently I just love online tests. Here's a hue discrimination test I just took. I scored a 4, with all the mistakes falling in the blue-green border:

typing test

After getting confused on the first try, I managed to score 103 WPM on my second try on this typing test. Of course, I may have cheated slightly by picking a passage from the Wizard of Oz, since I read fiction particularly fast.

Full result:
Net Speed: 103 WPM
Accuracy: 99%
Gross Speed: 104 WPM

192 countries

I object to this country quiz on principle, because it uses the UN list of countries and so doesn't list Taiwan, but I tried it anyway. Apparently I'm not great with countries; here's my result (with my comments in parentheses).

You forgot: Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo (I tried "Zaire" and "Congo" but neither counted), Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East Timor, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia, Moldova, Montenegro, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines (I swear I tried every combination of L's, P's, and N's except this one), Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Suriname, Swaziland, Tajikistan, The Bahamas ("Bahamas" doesn't count?), Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Kingdom (I tried "England", "Ireland", and "Great Britain". No dice.), Vanuatu, Venezuela, Zambia.

50 states

I've seen this name the 50 states link a couple of times in the last few days. Yesterday, I decided to try it. I managed to name 49 states in 3 minutes, but it took me another 2 minutes to figure out the last one. (It was Nevada. Ironic, since I was just there last month.)

It's really not fair for me to play these games; I had some very boring lecturers in college, and I distinctly remember trying to stay awake by doing useless things like writing down all of the teams in the NFL (by division), writing down all of the school teachers I'd ever had (chronologically starting from kindergarten), and writing down all of the states (with their capitals, both alphabetically and geographically in order). Yes, I'm really strange.

What Pre-1985 Video Game Character Am I?

Sent to me by a coworker: What Pre-1985 Video Game Character Am I? My result:

I am a Gauntlet Adventurer. I strive to improve my living conditions by hoarding gold, food, and sometimes keys and potions. I love adventure, fighting, and particularly winning - especially when there's a prize at stake. I occasionally get lost inside buildings and can't find the exit. I need food badly.

I don't think I hoard food. I eat it too quickly.