How well do you know your states?
 

See how all you formidable travelers do with this test. I've taken it twice...first time with a score of 88% and average error of 14 miles, 2nd time with a 92% but average error of 15 miles. This little bit of fluff is an interesting and quick diversion in your day, and guess what--there ARE NO RED NOR BLUE STATES!! LOL

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/stat...te15s_500.html

That was fun. I had a 97% with 4 mile average error and it took 144 seconds. I have always been a geography nerd and I guess it shows now, eh?

96%
3 mile avg
329 secs

First time 92% accuracy with average error 15 miles. Fun!

Thanks for the link, OO.

92% first time, but average 20 miles off. I missed Missouri and Maryland bigtime!

Fun!

96%
12 miles
336

But my daughter was trying to help :)

I pride myself on US geography and I got a 88% 14 miles and 274 seconds. Not bad but I wasn't rushing.

90% with an average error of 14 miles. I think I really sunk myself with Colorado. It was one of the first states I got in the game and I didn't have any reference points - I was off by almost 400 miles - oops!

90% accuracy error 15 miles.

This was such fun for me - a geography buff - even though I dropped Massachusetts when my mouse ran off the pad!! Only had trouble with Utah. I sent it to my all kids who are geography challenged. Can't wait to hear what they say. Thanks for the diversion. :-)

I dropped two states with my mouse. Do they penalize you for that?

I thought Alaska, Hawaii, Florida, and California were the hardest states to place.:-D

88%, 17 mile error, 169 seconds. But I would have done better if North Dakota wasn't my first state. I had some of the state right, but a lot in Montana.

Fun, I'll try it again later to see if I 'improve'.

You guys are great! The order you get the states in really does make a difference in your score of course. Then too, the first time I did it I didn't realize right away that they were telling me WHAT state I had. My first was one of those ubiquitous little rectangles so not only was I trying to figure out what it was, but where to put it. :)

Glad to see there are others who got a kick out of this. I was afraid I was going to be ground under someone's heel for introducing pap!

90% and 20 mile error for me. Not as good as some of you guys but not bad considering I'm from the UK.

Delaware was my big error. Not sure why I didn't really know roughly where that one was.

Great, I lost to a Brit. Now I feel dumb.

94%, 9 miles, 305 sec. I now have gotta beat myself.

That was SO neat! I won't tell you what my score was - I'm an ignorant Canadian - but you might get a laugh out of the fact that my average error was 107 miles. Hmmm... looks like I need to do a little homework. :)

92% 24 miles 289 secs--I kept dropping them as I was trying to drag them over to their places. That's what happens when you use a laptop!!!

I'd love to see one for Europe or much more difficult for me-- Africa!!

Don't feel bad, Meesthare. I'd hate to think what I'd score in a similar game for Canada, with, what, only 10 provinces and two territories?

I've 'improved' to best score 92%, 9 mile error in 154 seconds.

First time back, I had to place Oklahoma first, worse than my first go round. Had a score of 94%, 17 mile error in 183 seconds for putting Oklahoma in Kansas and Arkansas.

I think I would do okay with Canadian prov/terr, but would fail miserably for states of Mexico.

96%, 3 miles, 206 sec..LOVE geography !

I despair as well, Meesthere.
I have a splint on the index finger
of my mouse hand-
talk about the "new" America!!
Those poor states were just
slippin' and slidin'out into
the ocean and
Canada and the plains...
Oh,it sure was fun anyway, OO!
R5

Took four tries and a couple lucky guesses to score 100%.

100%, O miles, 1111 seconds. I may have an advantage because I have produced maps and graphic designs for many years. Rhode Island and other small states are the hardest to place because the curser nearly covers up the whole state.

NJ was the very last - small wonder - when I was a child in the late 40's Southern NJ was still a nice place to live - many working farms, great local produce and no subdivisions between Haddonfield and Brigantine.
M

90% with 17 mi error. I missed 2 state by a wide margin but 3 others by a small # and then the other 45 were perfect. It was fun!

94% 6 miles 277 seconds.

Kansas was my first state. I agonized quite a while where to put it.

Fun! I was at 86% and average error of 21 miles. Will need to try that again.

Way to go, jor!

They gave me Rhode Island FIRST.

88% and I was so sure I knew where everything went :(
Kentucky got me!

Aren't we all productive today? I've done it four times and only once beaten my original score. Rats!

This was fun..I did better than I thought

88% 31 miles :)

It won't let me in without installing some micromedia program. For me as a foreigner probably 50% would be great :)

SAB, here is Europe: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/European_Geography.htm

Score of 90% avg. error of 22 miles in 192 seconds. Lots of fun!

A fun diversion. 92% 9mi 511 sec.
First few hurt me big time... trying to figure out just how far east/west Montana is with no other states yet on the board to guage by, and it got easier & easier as the map filled in. It could be made a LOT tougher if we had to place each state on an empty US without the relationship to other states so apparent. Guess I'll try again. Thanks for the link, OO.

second try:
98%
1 mile avg error
318 secs

SAB - you'd like Africa & Asia?
Look here: http://www.maps.com/games/

That was fun! On my first try I got 80% percent right with an average error of around 30 miles.

Lee Ann