34,800
I don’t feel it was a well-designed test. It didn’t require to actually know any words; you just had to think you knew them. Somebody who “knew” a manacle is a lens you wear over one eye would have outscored somebody who wasn’t sure he knew what a manacle was.
37,800, native, 40 years old.
So is a monocle something you bind and chain someone up in, then?
My experience is the same, but I didn’t select words I’ve seen before but the definition for which I was unsure, or didn’t know.
My score was 33,600
That’s a “monocle.” Manacles are shackles.
Very true. In high school I swore that I only read those regency romances for the vocabulary boost.
I’m another one who last ran into that one with Lord Oneiros: Sandman during the Orpheus arc.
42,200. Not bad for an engineer.
Forgot to mention: this site will take you to the edge of your vocabulary. It has sixty levels and I usually have trouble staying near 50. It donates rice when you participate and if you’re just looking to kill time on the computer, it’s a good way to do that.
33,000. Native speaker, American, female.
I like all those stumpers on the second list. I’ll have to look some up.
29,300 here. Native speaker from the USA.
Now I just feel like a dummy and I’ll be depressed for the rest of the day. I thought I had a spectacular vocabulary, and it turns out I’m just barely above average 
This is why I shouldn’t take intelligence-related tests on the innernets.
37,100, and I’m a native speaker from the US.
I love that site. I go there to do the art tests and always learn something.
37200
I clicked on only the ones I was totally sure of although I recognized many others. My SAT verbal was in the top 1%.
43,600, native speaker from a literal backwater in the USA.
As WhyNot said, being an avid reader of fantasy and/or historical fiction helps a lot with that test. So does an idle interest in etymology.
See #35.
I think you and FoisGrasIsEvil are misunderstanding what Little Nemo is trying to say. He’s saying that someone who has the wrong definition in mind but is actually incorrect would score higher than someone who doesn’t know at all, since that person simply wouldn’t select that word.
I got 38,600, but from reading the thread I realize I was way off base on one of the words I though I knew (oneirwhatsis, which I though ought to be a wine maven) and there were quite possibly a few others. Native speaker.
I do believe that was his point. Hence the “knew” in finger quotes.
35,500 here.
If I wasn’t certain what the word ment I left it unchecked but there were a lot of words I’ve never seen before either. 31,800 not too bad for an engineer but I got 99.6 percentile when I took the GMAT last year for the verbal portion.
30K on the nose. Native speaker.
35,000 - Native Speaker from the US.
Similar to others, if a word felt familiar but I could not articulate a specific definition in my own words, I didn’t select it (ie, I only counted active vocabulary).