How well do you know your states?

[tsakshaug]

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html

Drage and drop states

I got 92% with a 10 mile error in 281 seconds
but I had to start with Wyoming

[StopTheMorans]

1. as well as I'd like to know them

:silly:

[Worst Username Ever]

2. Poorly

289 seconds, 89%, avg error 60 miles

[Lavender Brown]

3. I accidentally dropped Connecticut in the middle of the country

And got a zillion mile error rating. :D

[StopTheMorans]

14. accidentally?

:eyes:

[Lavender Brown]

17. Shut up, I let go of the mouse

[StopTheMorans]

18. yeah, i've heard that one before. and i bet that you put new york state

in the right place too :eyes:

[Lavender Brown]

19. Right next to Iowa.

[StopTheMorans]

22. good job!

:toast:

[liberalmom]

4. 94%, 8 mile error, 379 seconds

[tsakshaug]

8. WOW!

good job

[liberalmom]

13. Thanks!

I'm slow, but I know what I'm doing apparently. :)

[Burma Jones]

5. 98%, 5 mile error 219 seconds

But I got to start with Georgia..............

[MostlyLurks]

6. Better than me

88%, average error 25 miles, something in the 300+ range for seconds, I can't remember exactly.

[kick-ass-bob]

7. I screwed up on Nebraska - that was 1st.

Put it where Kansas goes.
96%, 4 mile error.
I'd post the time, but I had to stop for about 2 minutes or so.

[Born in the Maze]

51. I kept playing until Hawaii

came up first. My luck, the next was Alaska, then Louisiana...

Finally got a 100%. However, if I avarage in all the lower scores, it comes up 73%. (Only took me 118 tries, too.) LOL!

[kick-ass-bob]

9. I wonder what would happen if you put Hawaii on the east coast?

[tsakshaug]

12. wonder how bad it could be?

I might try

[tsakshaug]

21. Beat this George Bush score

0%
ave error 3183 miles

[Seabiscuit]

50. I dropped Hawaii on Ohio,

Texas in the Atlantic, Alaska on Texas and Florida in the Pacific.

Average error: 422 miles.

[fob]

10. 86% 26 miles 400 seconds

West Virginia was my worst miss

I had Utah, Idaho and Oklahoma about perfect but second guessed myself into 3 bad spottings

Started with Florida

Fun!

Edit: Glad they did the entire Hawaiin island chain though!

[MissMillie]

11. that's pretty impressive

I got a 90% with an average error or 28 miles.... 213 seconds.

[outraged2]

15. 90% average error 14 mi

But I accidently dropped Ohio before I got it to the right spot. Oh well.

[hickman1937]

16. 90%,11 miles, 598 seconds.

[auburngrad82]

20. 86%, 33 Miles, 333 seconds eom

[wryter2000]

23. Cool

States in the middle of the country (esp. square ones) were very hard to place even though I knew, more or less, where they went. Other states, such as Tennessee I would never have guessed right except that by then I'd already filled in the states around it.

Still, it was fun.

[no name no slogan]

28. The only people who know where the square states go

are the people who have either live in the, have lived in them, or are total geography nerds. Unfortunately, I'm all three. :dunce:

[kitkatrose]

24. Pretty damn good!!

96% with a 14 mile error in 238 seconds. :)

[no name no slogan]

25. 100% in 190 seconds

I am a total dork

[wryter2000]

26. This is funny

I posted the link on our company BB, and our recovering Republican answered "I kept putting Texas and Washington, DC in Saudi Arabia."

[cmf]

27. 94%, 6 mile error, 168 secs

I think how well you do depends on in what order you get the states. If you start with coastal states, it's easy peasy, if they give you all plains states at first, it's a bitch.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

29. 88%, 31 miles, 391 Secs. Not bad for a furrinah. (nt)

[huskerlaw]

30. 92%, 10 mile error, 194 seconds n/t

[SmileyBoy]

31. 100% 0 miles, 177 seconds

:D

[Ravenseye]

33. 100%, 0 miles, 133 Seconds

My first was Maine, my second was Wyoming, third was arkansas...eek...beat that!

[Ravenseye]

57. 100% 0 Miles 115 Seconds

Dang it I want to beat 100 seconds...I'm addicted.

[Ravenseye]

58. 100% 0 Miles 106 Seconds...AAARRRGGGHHH

so close to breaking the 100 second mark...

[Ravenseye]

59. 100% 0 Miles 100 Seconds Grrrrr

1 second away....I'm gonna f'ing do this if it kills me.

[Ravenseye]

60. Oh Thank God....100% 0 Miles 96 Seconds

I can stop now...I broke 100 seconds...whew

[WritersBlock]

32. 90%, 8 miles, 302 seconds. I dropped California!

That's almost as bad as not being able to place Alaska.

[Seabiscuit]

48. I hope you didn't drop California on a red state!

[WritersBlock]

53. Ooops!

[Ravenseye]

34. Game 2: 100% 0 Miles 111 Seconds

Starters were Massachusetts, Montana, and Arkansas

[pres2032]

35. 92% 10 miles 150 seconds

[Catbird]

36. 90%, 13 miles, 463 seconds

Started with Arkansas.

More fun than most eye/hand coordination exercises I have run across. I had trouble picking up states.

[giant_robot]

37. 98%, 5 miles, 981 sec.

I didn't know I was being timed! My only mistake was Kansas. The whole middle of the map was blank, and I was off by about 230 miles. I'm surprised I got it that close with no other states for reference.

[Bombtrack]

38. 92 %, average error 7 miles, 421 seconds, n/t

[mcscajun]

39. 92 % 17 miles 154 secs

But I slipped with the mouse and "dropped" New Hampshire somewhere over Ohio. Not a bad thing, really. :)

[Done]

40. 94%, 5 Miles, 256

[Billy Ruffian]

41. Fun

90%, avg error 11 miles, 451 seconds (laptop with touchpad ... that's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it.)

My five misses were early (Oklahoma was off the worst) on interior states, but I got every state into the area where at least most of where I placed it overlapped its actual location.

very cool site

[Anarcho-Socialist]

42. 86%, not bad for a non-American but I still could do better n/t

[Richardo]

43. 98%, within 2 miles, 209 seconds

I missed Tennessee by about 30 miles (blank area). :(

[Samurai_Writer]

44. 96% .... Avg Error 3 miles ..... 254 seconds

I go for accuracy over speed, obviously. ;)

[Touchdown]

45. 92% 203 Sec. 8 miles error.

Fun puzzle.

[Allenberg]

46. Not too shabby

[Lenape85]

47. 96% with a 3 mile error in 261 seconds

[njdemocrat106]

49. Not that bad here

94%, 10 miles, 443 secs. I started with South Carolina and got that right, but then I got Wyoming which killed my score my score for a while.

[SW FL Dem]

52. 100% 0mile error 323 seconds.

But then I have a middle school kid who is studying geography and I got a lot of coastal states in the beginning. Didn't hurt that my first state was Florida.

[JohnLocke]

54. 92%, 9 miles

[progressiveBadger]

55. 94%, 4mi error, 293 seconds...

that was actually fun and educational!

[Moloch]

56. I got

96% with a 3 mile error in 301 seconds.

Yay me!

That was fun, thanks for posting.

[Padraig18]

61. 100%, 6 mile error, 268 seconds. n/t

[Arkana]

62. 92%, 15 mile error, and 331 seconds

[Catbird]

63. Not challenging enough?

Go to the Sheppard Software home page and try the ADVANCED version. Once you place a state, it is removed from the map when you pick up the next state. Ouch.

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com

The URL in the original posting is for the intermediate version.

There is also an easier version. You get lots of hints, e.g., move a bit to the east.

[yellowdogintexas]

64. 303 seconds, and I got a 50! no errors

It only took me about 15 attempts to get there, and I was good in geography.

It is definitely a challenge