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Place the States on the Map

 
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Place the States on the map

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My Score:
92% (Damn little East Coast States )
Average Error: 33 miles
Time 317 sec
 
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Score: 84% <doh!>
Avg Error: 37 miles
Time: 318 Secs
 
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Score: 96%
Avg Error: 5 mi
Time: 218s

Got Nebraska and Oklahoma right off - the midwest is Too Damn Big. After that, tho, I was fortunate in the order it handed me stuff...

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Score: 96%
Avg Error: 3 mi
Time: 213s
 
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64%, 201 Miles, 740 Secs :roll:
 
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On a similar theme: Map and Geography Games
 
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Score 88%
Avg Error 33 miles
Time 510 secs

culprit - mid-western states!!
[ October 25, 2005: Message edited by: Ganpi Srinivasan ]
 
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90%/13mi/282secs

Problems all along the Appalachians.
 
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Score: 86%
Avg Error: 29 Miles
Time: 472

Had problems along the Mississippi River...

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83%
Average Error 89Miles..

Not bad for a country I've never been to! I'd like to see how US residients would do in a simlar challenge of "Place the UK counties"...
 
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Score: 94%
Avg Error: 6 mi
Time: 336s

Who knew Hawaii wasn't a Mid-Atlantic state!

Seriously, what tripped me up was placing the mid-west states just a little bit off,
 
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First attempt I got:

Score: 92%
Avg Error: 10 mi
Time: 551s

After a few more attempts:

Score: 98%
Avg Error: 1 mi
Time: 335s

Annoyingly, the one I missed that time was Colorado. Annoying because that's where I am now, and I have a pretty good idea where it's located. But hey, if none of the neighboring states are in place yet, it's hard to get the placement exactly right. You have to note that the latitude lines are curved in this projection, too...

[Adrian]: I'd like to see how US residients would do in a simlar challenge of "Place the UK counties"...

Probably not well. Though I'm pretty sure I could at least do better than your average error of 89 miles. Mostly because so many of the counties have distinctive shorelines, and of the remainder, most are less than 89 miles from the middle of the island.

On the other hand, if the rules were changed so that the map was already laid out but the names were missing, and the job was to assign the correct names - I'd do extremely poorly at that.
 
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Probably not well. Though I'm pretty sure I could at least do better than your average error of 89 miles. Mostly because so many of the counties have distinctive shorelines, and of the remainder, most are less than 89 miles from the middle of the island.



Hmmm.... I don't know... until recently I always thought that Wales was west of Ireland...

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It is, if you travel far enough.
 
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OK, I tried again...

100 / 0 / 267

But I think I was lucky, I got all the ones with the distinctive coast lines first... The east coast is what got me last time. I probably couldn't do it again!

And there is no way I could do the UK!
 
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