SemiBR: vocabulary size test

[charlatti]

I've seen variations of this before, I think, but this one was kind of fun: www.arealme.com/vocabulary-size-test/en/

[snshne322]

I feel like my vocabulary could be much better. I'll update with my results!

ETA: According to the test, I'm better than I think I am.  The verbiage bugs though.

★★★ Top 5.33%
Your vocabulary is at the level of professional white-collars in the US!

[willyh19]

I did better than I had expected to.

I got top 6.33%.
Your vocabulary is at the level of professional white-collars in the US!

[ufcasey]

I'm honestly shocked by this. Some of them had to be lucky guesses!

29100
★★★ Top 0.31%
You are Shakespeare! You can even create new words that will expand the English dictionary

[charlatti]

I got Shakespeare too. 29K and top 0.23% -- definitely some educated/lucky guesses there.

[snshne322]

It was so hard not to Google on a couple of those.

[ufcasey]

Jul 12, 2016 9:17:15 GMT -5 snshne322 said:

It was so hard not to Google on a couple of those.

Nerd that I am, I wrote some of them down and googled it after I was done with the whole test. It bothered me that I didn't know them!

[revjen]

Top 4.67%

[jordannbc]

★★★ Top 0.01%
You are Shakespeare! You can even create new words that will expand the English dictionary.

Along with my astounding vocab, I'm also a professional guesser. Friends always hated me during multiple choice tests.

[bernsteincat]

Top 4.87%

Neat test!

[Deleted]

This is terrible. I really need to work on my vocabulary. I did this without googling.

★★ Top 40.00%
Your vocabulary size is like that of a 12-year-old teenager in the US!

[itsme]

Oh dang.

★★ Top 22.17%
Your vocabulary size is like that of a 18-year-old teenager in the US!

[sassypants]

Top 0.27% or something like that. 29800.
You are Shakespeare! You can even create new words that will expand the English dictionary.
I've always had a big vocabulary. The drawback is being largely unable to use it because most people won't understand. I'm such a snob.

[susiebw]

I got top 0.16%.
I've always had a big vocabulary, too.

Two things:

1) one of the questions asked for a synonym of "deal" I'm a lawyer, so I saw both "sale" and "plea" as synonyms.

and

2) (and I say this here because I know a lot of you are fans) I was reading the Hamiltome last night and there was a footnote on the song Guns and Ships where Lin-Manuel Miranda said that everyone looked at him sideways when he came in using the word "ingenuitive." He thought everyone knew that word, but it turns out it's some kind of arcane word. I also thought everyone knew that word. Does everyone not know that word?  Alexander Hamilton was certainly that.

[sassypants]

Jul 14, 2016 10:14:53 GMT -5 susiebw said:

I got top 0.16%.
I've always had a big vocabulary, too.

Two things:

1) one of the questions asked for a synonym of "deal" I'm a lawyer, so I saw both "sale" and "plea" as synonyms.

and

2) (and I say this here because I know a lot of you are fans) I was reading the Hamiltome last night and there was a footnote on the song Guns and Ships where Lin-Manuel Miranda said that everyone looked at him sideways when he came in using the word "ingenuitive." He thought everyone knew that word, but it turns out it's some kind of arcane word. I also thought everyone knew that word. Does everyone not know that word?  Alexander Hamilton was certainly that.

I knew that word. I like the spelling of the other form of it, though: ingenuous. I love all the vowels.

[sweetrhythms]

30150 but I took Latin in high school though so I think that helps a lot 😉

[aurora]

30,500

All of my time reading for the past ~35 years have paid off.

I wonder if the words were the same for all of us or if the test is like the GRE and changes future words based on your success rate so far.

[charlatti]

Jul 14, 2016 14:25:23 GMT -5 sweetrhythms said:

30150 but I took Latin in high school though so I think that helps a lot 😉

I really wish I had taken Latin. I have high school language regrets!

[sweetrhythms]

Jul 14, 2016 18:43:03 GMT -5 charlatti said:

Jul 14, 2016 14:25:23 GMT -5 sweetrhythms said:

30150 but I took Latin in high school though so I think that helps a lot 😉

I really wish I had taken Latin. I have high school language regrets!

It really helped on my SATS and for useless "tests" like this but that's about it. I'm sure other languages have a lot more real world application. Unless maybe if you're a lawyer.