Name 50 US States in 10 Minutes

I won’t ask, if you won’t tell What Exit?:wink:

I missed Colorado and Louisiana. I lived in Louisiana for eight years! :smack:

HI
AK
CA
OR
WA
ID
NV
AZ
NM
TX

LA
AL
GA
FL
MT
CO
WY
ND
SD
NC

SC
VA
WV
MN
IL
OH
PA
KY
TN
NY

NJ
CT
ME
MA
MS
NH
VT
WI
MI
IN

(three minute mark)

RI
DE

(five minutes)

I missed Nebraska, Kansas (even though I have friends from there), Utah, Missouri, Iowa, Arkansas, Maryland, and… what’s the 50th that I’m missing?

All fifty in about three minutes. But I have the map in my head.

Don’t you mean 7:52 minutes? I don’t think I could even SAY all the states in eight [del]minutes[/del] seconds.

All 50 in about 3 or 4 minutes

I just did it in my head starting at Maine and zigzag down and back up until I got all 50 in 3:13. I driven through a very large number of them and I think that makes it easier for me. That and I love maps.

I learned THAT SONG in 5th grade. Took me about 25 seconds to recite them.

It sure comes in handy in my job whenever I need to alphabetize a list of states.

Time started: 10:28:10
Alaska
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Connecticut
Colorado
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
Kentucky
Kansas
Louisiana
Maine
Mississippi
Michigan
Minnesota
Massachusetts
Maryland
Montana
New York
Nevada
New Mexico
Nebraska
North Dakota
North Carolina
New Hampshire
Oregon
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Dakota
South Carolina
Texas
Tennessee
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
West Virginia
Wyoming

  1. Hmm.

Three minutes? Y’all suck. <pout>
:wink:

I can still say them all in less than two minutes. When I was in 5th grade, the kids who misbehaved had to write the states and capitals as punishment. Well, I didn’t want the “bad” kids to know something that I didn’t, so I memorized the list even though I never had to write it all out.

I just timed myself rattling off every state in alphabetical order in 19 seconds.

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

We had to sing this song in elementary school, and the list is forever burned in my brain.

hahaha… yes… 7 minutes 52 seconds. whoops… :slight_smile:

1049
alaska, hawaii, washington, oregon, california, nevada, idaho, new mexico, north dakota, south dakota
maine, vermont, new hampshire, massachusetts, rhode island, connecticut, new york, new jersey, pennsylvania, delaware
florida, louisiana, texas, arizona, idaho, ohio, utah, wisconsin, virginia, west virginia,
tennessee, mississippi, michigan, kansas, nebraska, montana, missouri, alabama, iowa, omaha
1055

eta: I see I mixed up Omaha and Oklahoma :smack:

eta: and i stopped counting at forty oops

Hey, I just did this earlier today. My friend and I have been doing a 50 states quiz since last year in an effort to improve our scores. I usually get them all in about 2.5 minutes, but I sometimes have a block with Missouri and Indiana.

Maine, vermont, NH, Massa, conn,
rhode, dela, ny, jersey, pa,
mary, va, nc, sc, ga,
fl, alabama, louis, miss, tex,
okla, NM, nev, ariz, cali,
nd, sd, ohio, mich, missouri,
minnesota, indiana, illinois, kentucky, arkans,
kans, colo, wisc, idaho, mont,
tenn, iowa, wash, oreg, wisc,
wyoming, alaska, hawaii, wv, utah

I got 'em all and it only took 4 minutes.

I can do it all in less than a minute, thanks to the song I learned in 5th grade. “The 50 States That Rhyme”. To this day I still have it memorized.

Thanks Mr. Smith. You rock. And not just because for breakfast you would eat twinkies and wash it down with coke.

Hey, when you’re a kid and you can’t do these things for breakfast, you look up to the adults who can. :smiley:

I got all 50, in alphabetical order, in 29.51 seconds.

Alaska
Hawaii
Washington
Oregon
California
Arizona
Nevada
Idaho
Montana
Utah
New Mexico
Colorado
Wyoming
N Dak
S Dak
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Louisiana
Arkansas
Missouri
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Kentucky
Tennesee
Mississippi
Alabama
Indiana
Michigan
Ohio
Georgia
Florida
S Carolina
N Carolina
Virginia
Maryland
Delaware
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New York
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Vermont
New Hampshire
Maine
West Virgina.

Five minutes- slow typer. How about matching up the capitals?

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delawre
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Ioway
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachussets
Michigan

–> Here, after one minute and 22 states, is where I forget that “Fifty Nifty United States” song from 5th grade.

Montana
Missouri
Minnesota

New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York

Nevada

North Carolina
North Dakota

Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina
South Dakota

Tennesee

Utah

Vermont
Virginia

Washingon
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

47 after 7 minutes

Texas
And that’s 48 after 10 minutes.
I missed:

Mississippi
Nebraska
After the song, I tried to go alphabetically, realized I missed a lot, then went in filling the blanks with a mental map. It’s not surprising that the two I missed are ones whose positions I’m unsure about.