Page 1 of 1
What's your vocabulary size?
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 5:24 pm
by Artemis
I got 23550.
★★★ Top 4.27%
Your vocabulary size is equal to that of a 30-year-old successful American businessperson!
http://www.arealme.com/vocabulary-size-test/en/
Re: What's your vocabulary size?
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 5:34 pm
by creep
yo...i'm professional and shit
21300
★★★ Top 7.83%
Your vocabulary is at the level of professional white-collars in the US!
Re: What's your vocabulary size?
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 5:46 pm
by chaos
This score is the result of some lucky guessing. I thought the antonyms were harder than the synonyms.
Your English Vocabulary Size is:
28575
★★★ Top 0.43%
You are Shakespeare! You can even create new words that will expand the English dictionary.
Re: What's your vocabulary size?
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 5:54 pm
by creep
show offs
Re: What's your vocabulary size?
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 6:00 pm
by chaos
Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.
Re: What's your vocabulary size?
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 6:13 pm
by Larry B.
creep wrote:show offs
I got 22,650. It's not that we're showoffs, I think it's you who is a bit of a dimwit...
Re: What's your vocabulary size?
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 9:47 pm
by mockbee
Your English Vocabulary Size is:
29625
★★★ Top 0.19%
You are Shakespeare! You can even create new words that will expand the English dictionary.
This makes no sense whatsoever, the test must be broken.
Re: What's your vocabulary size?
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 10:42 pm
by kv
21900 we dumb creep
Re: What's your vocabulary size?
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 12:43 am
by nausearockpig
Your English Vocabulary Size is:
22950
★★★ Top 5.08%
Your vocabulary is at the level of professional white-collars in the US!
i tork gudly
Re: What's your vocabulary size?
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 1:11 pm
by Pandemonium
22950
★★★ Top 5.08%
Your vocabulary is at the level of professional white-collars in the US!
I then tried to purposely miss every single answer just to see what the result would say:
50
Last 0.50%
Your vocabulary size is like that of a 1-year-old kid in the US! (are you kidding?)
....somehow, I must have nailed at least one question correctly, lol.
Re: What's your vocabulary size?
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 1:11 pm
by creep
kv wrote:21900 we dumb creep
i took it again and got 21900 too
★★★ Top 6.83%
Your vocabulary is at the level of professional white-collars in the US!
Re: What's your vocabulary size?
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 2:10 pm
by MYXYLPLYX
I took it on FB... dunno how to copy and paste it but I got 30,150 - top 0.01%
Re: What's your vocabulary size?
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 2:17 pm
by creep
pretty cool. i was the second person to take this....thought i did good but ended up in last place. at least last place for the people that actually posted their scores.
MYXYLPLYX wrote:I took it on FB... dunno how to copy and paste it but I got 30,150 - top 0.01%
are you sure we went to the same high school?
Re: What's your vocabulary size?
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 3:24 pm
by MYXYLPLYX
creep wrote:pretty cool. i was the second person to take this....thought i did good but ended up in last place. at least last place for the people that actually posted their scores.
MYXYLPLYX wrote:I took it on FB... dunno how to copy and paste it but I got 30,150 - top 0.01%
are you sure we went to the same high school?
Yeah, and it sucked. So, as I was usually bored (when I was actually in class), I would read the dictionary.
I don't think they had them when you were there, but when they started the CA Lottery, every school got a dictionary for every student in every class. They stayed in the shelf under the desks. Teachers would come to complain it was the only thing the lottery ever did for schools.
I really don't have much in the way of exceptional skills or attributes, but I will say I've got a pretty damn good vocabulary... for whatever that's worth?
Re: What's your vocabulary size?
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 6:20 pm
by Cowchips1997
21450, white collar. Wonder what it would be if I had all those brain cells back. Oh well, probably be lower after this weekend.
Re: What's your vocabulary size?
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2016 5:37 am
by SR
22,350 before coffee.
Re: What's your vocabulary size?
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2016 10:51 am
by Sue
Your English Vocabulary Size is:
30325
★★★ Top 0.01%
You are Shakespeare! You can even create new words that will expand the English dictionary.
Share if you like this result
Re: What's your vocabulary size?
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 4:17 am
by Hype
This test is making the rounds on Facebook, and I find the method somewhat suspect. Many words, especially archaisms and other rarely used ones, are known by chance, and many of these are knowable by context, or are easily forgotten and then remembered. So I wouldn't put much stock in the raw number you get, it's probably a more accurate measure of how you compare to other people at taking that specific test with those specific words. Anyway, I took it a few days ago while drunk and scored the same as Sue.
To maybe reinforce my scepticism, the Economist has shared another site a bunch of times, which, helpfully, provides its methodology. Here's a link to that site:
http://testyourvocab.com/
On that one, I score around 40,000, but I think this still seems inaccurate. Many of us have highly technical, and very narrow, but still quite large, vocabularies, on top of ordinary speech, which wouldn't easily be measured by a test like this.
Re: What's your vocabulary size?
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:55 am
by Larry B.
Hype wrote:Although the test and its results are mainly just a bit of fun, I was super-stoked to get a high score. I'm ashamed of having been excited, so I'll say that the test is shit, and that I took another test and also got a high score. I'm ashamed of being excited by that too, so I'll just say that both tests are meaningless. So although the tests are meaningless, I still scored higher than all of you dumb fucks. WHILST DRUNK! Haha, take that, 15 active users of an old Jane's Addiction Internet forum!
Re: What's your vocabulary size?
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 8:15 am
by SR
These things are for fun, but they are absurd. Contractions alone, depending upon whether they are counted or not, dramatically alter a true account of vocab size. Other factors will as well.
Shakes likely had 28k in available to him....and of course the words he invented could add or subtract from that depending upon era, context, and reader. His was probably equivalent to a person with a dozen PhD's that run the spectrum from the humanities, sciences, and languages.
Even attempting to quantify his has proved to be a daunting task. Collaborate works and apocryphal issues come into play to muddy the waters. Many experts insist the best way to identify Shakes is by the words he doesn't use, not the one he knows.
Re: What's your vocabulary size?
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 10:17 am
by Larry B.
I scored higher than creep, but I'm sure 99% of the English-speaking population would understand him better than they'd understand me, even in written form.
Re: What's your vocabulary size?
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 3:55 pm
by nausearockpig
wait, what.. are you saying that some random quiz on the internet may not be 100% accurate for all test takers??? you sir, are crazy.........