37,900 - okay, maybe a little high.
I was kind of hoping that there would be some kind of check that the words I thought I knew were words I really did know. Um, a pother is something that Winnie the Pooh would find himself in, right? …Or never mind, I didn’t check that one off after all.
38,600
That’s only a little above average for my age, which means I’m disappointed. I read a LOT.
I feel kind of dumb- I got 27,800 and I’m a native English speaker. I missed manacle although in retrospect I do know what those are (not for eyes). I recognized a lot of words, but without a sentence couldn’t remember the meaning.
The average for a 23 year old is 25,027 though so at least I’m above average for my age.
Wow, this is one of the few places where I feel like my vocabulary doesn’t hold up to the crowd. I got 34,900 and thought I was doing pretty well. Now I need to go look up those words!
Native English speaker, technical and fiction writer, 740 on the verbal SAT (many years ago)
32300, native speaker from US.
39200 words. I’m from India.
38,400. Native US English speaker, bachelor’s in education who often has to define words I use for colleagues.
Strangely enough, I went back and changed my options to native speaker (which I suppose I am, in a sense, even though I’ve always lived in India) , and then got options for How much do you read? (lots) and what(fiction). Left my score completely unchanged. Still 39200. Why do they ask about that stuff if it’s not going to factor into their calculations? Are they collecting data on people?
ETA: Serves me right for not looking beyond the big words in bold. Apparently they are collecting data.
English was my first language, I read a lot, my SAT verbal score was over 700, and I have a PhD.
My score of 39,400 does not seem to reflect any that. 
38,600. Native English speaker who reads a lot.
Wow that’s very impressive for someone from India. I got 15500 even after marking words that I wasn’t even completely sure about.
What other languages do you speak/understand apart from English?
40,200. I had a little trouble deciding which ones to count. I knew that a williwaw is a kind of wind but I didn’t know what kind exactly. I counted it anyway. I knew oneiromancy must be a kind of divination but didn’t know what kind exactly. I didn’t count it.
35,900. I have a GED, but I’ve been reading every day since I was four.
41400, Native English speaker. With a good vocabulary, and a taste for historical fiction. There were only a few at the end I didn’t recognise.
That other language testing site gets tough around level forty.
That was exactly his (her?) point.
I scored 32,500…which I thought was great, until I saw what some other Dopers did.
Nava, well done! I’d estimate that your Latin-derived cognates would have helped you get maybe 5 extra words that many native English speakers would miss… In other words, the fact that you scored so high as a non-native speaker is still very impressive.
US, age late 50s, high-school dropout with a GED.
38,200.
Average for my age is 32,475 - I’m only 17.6 percent over that. As much reading as I do, I would have expected something higher than that…
Hindi, punjabi, a smattering of kannada, tamil, marathi and bengali(although the last two are made much easier because they share roots to hindi)
cool, I had to google search for the meaning of smattering btw.