Can you name all 50 U.S. states in ten minutes or less?

48/50. But Connecticut isn’t really a state. Or is that Delaware? I really embarrassed myself with the state capitals.

Ridings are electoral districts. We have 308, each of which elects one member to the House of Commons.

Pfft! “Time Remaining” for me: 05:38. I knew the names of all 50 states by the time I was 12. But I would trade New Jersey for your “poor typing skills”. :smiley:

How about the four commonwealths? That would slow some of you down.

All 50 in 3:12.

Also interesting - according to their stats, the two most forgotten states are Missouri and Minnesota. I would have thought the Northeast would be tougher but maybe a higher proportion of people who take the test live there so it’s natural for them to remember.

Got them all in 2min 41sec. I just went west to east and filled them all in.

I missed Oklahoma and Georgia and wasted a ton of time trying to figure out why my spelling of Indiana wasn’t being accepted (hint I already had it)

Wyoming isn’t a state, dammit!

49/50

Well, I feel stupid!! I know, without the test, I can’t name them all! :stuck_out_tongue:

I just did the mapless one in 2 minutes 6 seconds.

Not without Googles help I couldn’t. I doubt that I could even list 15 without looking them up.

We memorized all the state capitals in the 5th grade. 42 years ago. Oddly enough, I no longer remember them. :wink:

Me, foreigner that I am, I always remember Maryland because of the trivia fact I leaned (from the World Book Encyclopaedia, remember those?) that their State Sport is Jousting. How cool is that state? Jousting!

All 50 in 2 minutes 54 seconds.

… and I’m not even American :smiley:

It took me only 40 minutes to name all the provinces, states and territories in Canada and Australia. :smiley:

Not knowing any mnemonic songs or having made any especial study of the topic, but having looked at maps of the US any hundreds of times in my life… I still left one out. Got no excuse, either.

The map was distracting, in a way. I think I’d have done better just writing down the two letter state abbreviations because I could always simply write out all the easy ones (at least 45-47), then just cycle through two letter combos until the other 3-5 shook out. But with the map there I felt compelled to recognize actual states by location, and to go through the map from east to west (since I’m from NY and the eastern seaboard states, especially the Northeast, are all first-hand familiar to me).

As it was, I did 48 in about 4 minutes, then took 90 more minutes to remember the state west of Missouri was Kansas (because I remembered Kansas City was in Missouri and a border city)… And spent 2 minutes NOT remembering the state west of Wisconsin was Minnesota, despite having been to a wedding in Minneapolis and there being a MLB team there too. Arrgh! Yet had I done a blank piece of paper version, I’m sure I’d have remembered that one and left out something like Oklahoma, which was easy because of the panhandle, but without which visual cue I’d have great difficulty recalling its existence.

Huh. 21. I thought I’d do better than that.

Tried it by memory and couldn’t think of Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Connecticut or New Jersey in 10 minutes.

Then I opened the thread and saw that there was a map to look at. Hah! It took about five minutes, and I blanked out on Wisconsin again for about 20 seconds.

I got all 50, but didn’t time myself (way less than 10 minutes).

Sad to hear that my home state of Wisconsin is so forgettable. :frowning: Cheese? Beer?! The Super Bowl Packers? Paul Ryan?

Got 'em all in just over 4 minutes, but my typing sucks and I had trouble spelling Massachusetts. I knew all the state capitals too at one point many years ago, but there’s probably no way I’d remember them all now.

3:46, but I didn’t optimize my posture for typing and made about a billion typos. I’m sure I could have cut 30 seconds off, and yes, Massachusetts is a bitch to spell.

Unless u r a travel agent or map maker, why take up space in ur head? If want to go to a state, get a map, find one with a pretty name, WRITE IT DOWN, and now u r good to go. Ok, smarties, now tell me the names of all government workers in all 50 states and Washington DC. I think there are about 22,000,000. When the number of gov. workers equals the population, we will no longer be serfs but self employed. There was a Japanese businessman that recited the value of pi (3.141…) to 100,000 digits. Beat that in 14 hours.