# Closest guess on Geoguessr?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [August 15, 2013, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closest-guess-on-geoguessr/666279 "2013-08-15T04:03:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closest-guess-on-geoguessr/666279/41 "2013-09-14T00:03:18Z")

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Fourth one: got some street signs along some Italian shore so I looked up one of the streets.

Palermo, 3 meters; 6479 points.

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**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closest-guess-on-geoguessr/666279/42 "2013-09-14T02:03:39Z")

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Your guess was **0.362 km** from the correct location and gave **6449 points**

That was my first try. I think I’d better not sign up. I could waste a _lot_ of time there. 🆒

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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closest-guess-on-geoguessr/666279/43 "2013-09-16T07:04:29Z")

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No cheating, 4.23 kilometers. Midway Island. I probably could have zoomed the map in closer and got closer.

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closest-guess-on-geoguessr/666279/44 "2013-09-16T13:50:32Z")

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I tried playing this setting out some rules to myself, with no moving–just looking around a making a guess based solely on the exact location Geoguessr has given me. So far, I’m doing a lot better than I thought I would, usually getting about 2000 points per guess. (Last round I finished with 10343 using my rules. The one I royally screwed up was one in Alaska and I guessed northern Michigan.)

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