This quick test (about 2 minutes) accurately assesses how much English vocabulary you know.
Ive taken it 3 times, and I got 73%, 79% and 83%. My advice is to go as fast as possible. That was how I got my score higher each time. I never flagged any non-words as actual words. I was quite happy with that given how quickly I was going.
Who can get the best score? You must supply proof in order to win. I will upload screenshots but I’m sure someone will beat my best after a few goes so not worth it currently. Highest proven score becomes official ROF vocabulary champion.
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I only generally need two words.
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I got 64% but I didn't incorrectly click yes for any words. I said no to Chablis (proper noun?) and a few other words where I was fairly certain they were words but couldn't have defined them.
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89%. Accidentally clicked no to a word that was a word tho (boron)
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83%.
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84% on the second go with no mistakes so I guess the rest doesn't have enough questions for a statistically significant result.
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I was similarly conservative on my noes both attempts.
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87% on second go. No non-words either time.
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87%. I got w**ker right.
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81% third go. No non words. Unlucky on the first go I think/hope!
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JM, is your 89% after or before the deduction for the non-word. If after you are leading. If before, Anna is leading.
Im calling it a day for now as I’m too tired to improve on my result. I knew it was time to call it when “spaffing” came up and I said it wasn’t a word. 🤦♂️
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87%
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67%
probably a bit generous still
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Did it twice - got 76% and 78%.
In my defence most of the words I said "no" to sound like something Blackadder would have said in Ink and Incapability: pangenetic, neuroleptic, xiphosuran, cutaneous...
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79% not bad for a dyslexic. Nice test!
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87% first time at a gallop
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Ok so, subject to JM, 4 people are leading on 87%.
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89%. I am a bit dischuffed with bora, which I would put down as either a) not English or b) a proper noun. And the abbreviation of arc cosine is not a word.
On the other hand I got all the non-words right. I definitely think whimewane, brincefork, and magzam should be things.
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83% less 3% non words incorrectly marked yes
net net 80%
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Thanks for that Dogie. It’s cool (as the kidz don’t say)
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You said yes to 84% of the existing words.
You said yes to 0% of the nonwords.
This gives you a corrected score of 84% - 0% = 84%.
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87% on second go. (Let us not speak of 1st attempt.)
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Gannicus got 84% net
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This is probably my greatest contribution to ROF, after 10+ years.
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91% (on my 4th go). The US spelling caught me out on quite a few in my first few goes. And even ignoring the spelling there are quite a few words in there that are very US-centric e.g. "graham" as an adjective...
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91% first go.
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Obligato? Surely that's Italian.
seigniorial?
What's their data source?
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First try 87% second try ... 97%! Woo! Difference in score due to how many real scientific words there were... the first time I marked some real science words as fake.
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89 was net net. I got 83 on my first run.
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107%
I know too many words.
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Heh goose!
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Did another 3, for 78, 86 and 84.
This is addictive.
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We need proof of the 97%. Imgur? I think Sumoking knows how to post pictures.
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Does this link work? https://postimg.cc/MfGjcpzW
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91% (on my 4th go). The US spelling caught me out on quite a few in my first few goes. And even ignoring the spelling there are quite a few words in there that are very US-centric e.g. "graham" as an adjective...
wtf? On what planet is "graham" an adjective? Stupid aunts.
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Yes, you are the champion. Hard to beat that score. So you must have got through over 33 words and only failed to identify one.
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80% net
not too bad for a forrin
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86% netnet
cool quiz tbf
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i got 93% of the words and said yes to 7% of the nonwords
but tbf one of the nonwords was “gender”
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Squirkle caught me out
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Neither is octotun
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I increased a full 10% by marking yes to words clearly only us vocabulary (vernacular more like) and unknown in uk.
pah
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Well you know what they say minkie, it’s not whether you play the game…
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I have no faith in this flawed test and shall not be repeating it.
It thinks that "spaffs" is a non-word! Our esteemed PM will surely beg to differ.
81% (84% if you add spaffs back in).
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90%-7% = 83%. Bit annoyed as it said “perfecto” was an English word
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Quite a few medical words - “posteromedial”, “embolus”, “intramural”
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Also “combater”, allegedly “one who combats”. Combatant, surely…
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Oof. Just hit 96%. I'm not stopping till I get 100%.
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Now 97%. I didn't know bedizenment or slickenside.
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90%
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Heh. This came up on my last go:
Pettifogger: A lawyer whose practice involves petty matters or who lacks sound legal judgment or skills.
Does anyone know where I can find one of them?
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83% first time (93-10)
81% second time (91-10)
93% third time (96-3)
third time was bizarre tho as the only one i thought was a word which wasn’t was “peltish”.
the trick is to remember that it includes slang - eg “gyppo” counted - and minimise the words u think might be but r not
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You said yes to 87% of the existing words.
You said yes to 0% of the nonwords.
Proto is a prefix not a word.
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shut up elfffi u lingam
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I just realised there’s no time limit. I think there’s a finite number of questions you have to answer, as I tried getting a few easy ones and then dithering until it ran down.
I have no idea why I kept doing better the faster I went. Maybe just got used to the kind of words that turn up.
100% would probably be easy to manage if you just Google every word on another phone. I am ending this competition now in order to maintain integrity. Deadcelebrity is eternal champion.
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76% on the first go, but I was playing it too safe.
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71%. Good job my career is not based on comprehension of the English language…
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94%. No non-words but a few I didn't know.
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80%.
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I clicked on a handful of non words
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84% at second pass, so it’s consistent at least
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I'd only tried once but assumed there was a time limit. Second attempt slightly slower but not much difference (93%).
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No pettifogging in these parts oh no
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Heh!
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And yet there’s nothing from Blackadder’s dictionary in there.
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Sausage
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