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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2009 20:32:38 GMT
This test takes twelve minutes. You have to try to guess the 100 most common words of the English language. My score was only 46/100. It is very embarrassing at the end of the test to see how many easy ones you missed.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 27, 2009 22:43:03 GMT
I don' need no steenking test!
Everyone knows that the most common word in the English language is "ear".
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Post by fumobici on Nov 27, 2009 23:34:31 GMT
56  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 28, 2009 0:37:06 GMT
56 also. There were a couple when the answers were revealed that I was positive I'd put down. The time factor and wondering if a word is a version of another word made me tense. To quote Fumobici: |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2009 1:35:29 GMT
I got bored with it and walked away.
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Post by imec on Nov 28, 2009 1:38:57 GMT
56
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Post by hwinpp on Nov 28, 2009 4:23:25 GMT
56
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Post by joanne28 on Mar 28, 2010 17:09:02 GMT
49 and I smacked my forehead when I saw some of them. How I missed them, I'll never know.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2010 17:23:44 GMT
I was able to console myself with "oh, I'm just forgetting my English" -- but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't do much better in French.  |
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Post by gertie on Apr 11, 2010 8:09:25 GMT
57 but I missed some REALLY easy ones.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2010 10:40:46 GMT
I can't say I've improved over time -- 51
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Post by Kimby on Apr 15, 2010 19:32:39 GMT
"well", "umm", "you know" and especially "like" have got to be right up there.
and "goes" (as in "then he goes blah, blah blah and then I go yadda yadda yadda....)
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Post by hwinpp on Apr 21, 2010 9:58:09 GMT
I like the 'yadda yadda' part ;D
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 26, 2010 16:22:17 GMT
I always think tests like this really prove something entirely different than what they purport to be testing, but probably by accident.
In other words, we're trying to think of something under the gun and something about the way the test is presented more or less prevents that. I know someone who appeared on the tv show Jeopardy and did well. However, he forgot his son's name when it came time for him to say a few words.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Apr 28, 2010 15:21:25 GMT
Kimby wrote: "and "goes" (as in "then he goes blah, blah blah and then I go yadda yadda yadda...." I'm pleased that someone else besides me is irritated by such malformed usage of English. Aren't you?  |
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Post by dahuffy on Jul 9, 2010 23:23:09 GMT
41
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2010 18:32:49 GMT
You go, girl!
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Post by Kimby on Jul 18, 2010 19:28:07 GMT
I finally took it. I got 61.
But I'm embarrassed at some of the ones I didn't think of.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2013 21:30:08 GMT
Frankly, this is an excellent annoying quiz. I am holding off taking it again after 3 years because I am pretty sure that I will be humiliated again.
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Post by mich64 on Mar 9, 2013 23:28:34 GMT
59, it was difficult.
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Post by anshjain97 on Mar 10, 2013 1:47:54 GMT
I got 54.
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Post by rikita on Mar 10, 2013 12:51:15 GMT
70. must admit i looked at the sentences with the instructions though for inspiration.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2015 7:14:46 GMT
I only got 44 this time, but I just woke up, so that will be my excuse.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 4, 2016 16:48:53 GMT
I must be too sleepy and disoriented from the time change. I started the test and after writing the word "be", drew a complete blank on other words.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2016 16:59:13 GMT
Whenever I take this test I feel so stupid when I see the words.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 4, 2016 20:40:18 GMT
I did 54.
Na !
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Post by amboseli on Apr 4, 2016 22:43:34 GMT
53
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