• only 34.9% managed to complete it,
• over 30% only managed the first 5-9 questions,
• and to beat 50% you only had to answer 21 questions.

(I've been teaching maths, so I really should have been able to complete it)
 

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Posted by QLib (# 43) on :
 
40/40 with 11 seconds to go.
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
40/40, 42 seconds left
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Oh, well, if we're giving times, I did it with 53 seconds left! But I suspect that those who aren't completing it aren't boasting.
 

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Posted by QLib (# 43) on :
 
Yeah, but I watching telly at the time.
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
and chatting in the café doesn't count?
 

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Posted by Jonah the Whale (# 1244) on :
 
1:24
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
And now we've put off the 65% of people who can't do this ...
 

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Posted by Hart (# 4991) on :
 
40/40 with 1:03 left.
 

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Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on :
 
Was I the only one who found finding the numbers took more time than clicking the answers?
(Not mentioning how much time I had left because it doesn't look so great next to Jonah and Hart.)
 

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Posted by Deputy Verger (# 15876) on :
 
Okay. I confess. I only got 7 out of 40 before I did something wrong and got chucked out. So I went and did the Frenetic Foreign Phrases (much more fun) and got 41 out of 42 with 3:55 to spare. "Shtick" was the leftover word but I can't recall what the clue might have been, and I do think I know what it means.
 

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Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 

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Originally posted by Gwai:
Was I the only one who found finding the numbers took more time than clicking the answers?

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Originally posted by Gwai:
Was I the only one who found finding the numbers took more time than clicking the answers?
(Not mentioning how much time I had left because it doesn't look so great next to Jonah and Hart.)

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And I thought I'd done really well before I saw their scores! It's usually in Purg. and Hell that I'm reminded how smart I'm not, not in the Circus (OK, except playing Mornington Crescent, which is serious intellectual exercise).
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
I'm poor at mental arithmetic and got 40/40 with 10 seconds to spare. So the statistics don't look hopeful!
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Boogie, those stats are from the 20,000 odd who had played that game on Sporcle when I checked them last night. You find them by clicking on the link. They will just be computerised addition
 

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Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on :
 
40/40 with 44 secs left. Sounds fairly respectable...
 

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Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :
 
I have met Hart, and I know he used to be a maths tutor at the first university I attended. I shall wait until I am more awake to take the exam....
 

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Posted by Balaam (# 4543) on :
 
I thought I could do maths, but only had a pathetic 34 seconds left at the end.
 

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Posted by ken (# 2460) on :
 
Same here, 34 seconds to go. But its hardly "maths", just one kind of arithmetic at about the level we'd have been expected to do in 3rd or 4th year juniors.

Also it gets easier as it goes on as the choices are blanked out, so if you were determined to go through as fast as possible just estimating and hitting the nearest unused answer would work as often as not.
 

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Posted by Gracious rebel (# 3523) on :
 
I discovered while doing this that I find multiplication and division easier than adding and subtracting (when the numbers needed to be added or subtracted are larger than about 5). Weird.

I completed it with about 23 seconds to spare.
 

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Posted by FooloftheShip (# 15579) on :
 
only 16 seconds left. THere was I thinking I was ok at mental arithmetic....
 

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Posted by TurquoiseTastic (# 8978) on :
 
1:24 for me too
 

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Posted by the giant cheeseburger (# 10942) on :
 
1:44

Would have been far faster if I could have used the keyboard as well as the mouse.
 

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Posted by The Rogue (# 2275) on :
 
1:27 to go.
 

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Posted by Loveheart (# 12249) on :
 
1:07, not helped by forgetting where I was halfway through!
 

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Posted by Ricardus (# 8757) on :
 
37/40. I'm obviously the Ship's Dunce ...
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
No, honest - I suspect that a lot of people have tried and not posted because they didn't want to admit to their score.
 

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Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
Taking me a while to work out what to do, mustn't get a wrong answer or the clock stops!
 

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Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
44 seconds to go - my school report would read 'Chorister is a bit slow but she gets there in the end....'
 

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Posted by East Price Road (# 13846) on :
 
40/40 with 31 secs left.
 

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Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
40/40 with 15 seconds left.
 

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Posted by que sais-je (# 17185) on :
 
40/40 with 35 seconds to go but that's unimpressive as a) I have a PhD in Maths and b) I used to teach Computer Science (that makes you expert on 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 - most of which came up).

Now I've lost my slippers. I think I'll have a cup of tea while I recover.
 

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Posted by Caissa (# 16710) on :
 
40/40 with 1:23 left.
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 

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Originally posted by que sais-je:
40/40 with 35 seconds to go but that's unimpressive as a) I have a PhD in Maths and b) I used to teach Computer Science (that makes you expert on 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 - most of which came up).

Now I've lost my slippers. I think I'll have a cup of tea while I recover.

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I can't imagine a PhD in maths would help. By the time you get to that level maths consists of e, i, δ, π and zero, if you're lucky. What use are they in arithmetic? More use to help you find your slippers.
 

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Posted by Traveller (# 1943) on :
 
Brain dead today, but managed to get them all right with 34 seconds left.

It is a well known truism that no true mathemetician can count or add up.

[ 19. July 2012, 17:00: Message edited by: Traveller ]
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
I wouldn't even try. Maths and I no like each other.
 

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Posted by TomOfTarsus (# 3053) on :
 
40/40 with 1:00 left. Engineer.
 

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