Well, /lit/?
http://www.arealme.com/vocabulary-size-test/en/
>>8268423
WELL!
i'll take it but i'm a little disappointed desu
I'm dumb.
ESL here. I can take your job, dear Americans.
>>8268459
Never went to collage. I just read books.
>>8268423
Damn, almost
>>8268423
Suck a dick OP. I hate your clickbait site.
Can't be bothered to take a screenshot but I got 23100, top 4.87%
>>8268481
>>8268478
About time.
>>8268477
Well I did say I never went.
suck my nuts, vocablets
>>8268486
aka the fucking google method you chump
Meh, getting there.
>implying these niggas didn't search the answers on Google.
i took another quiz on that site, the iq triangle test
am i logically autistic or something?
>>8268498
>vocablets
when will they learn
i guessed on some of them. i did study greek and latin roots during an sat prep course so that helped but not really.
>>8268508
Sup
>>8268498
>implying we did
>>8268493
what's up, fellow 29800 anon
Aight but check my repeating digits
>>8268522
FUCK
>>8268505
>200 on visual IQ
>am i logically autistic or something?
No you just took a fake/bad IQ test
Guys, vocabulary.com
;)
>>8268496
Just noticed I'm still in the top 4.8% which is starting to sound comforting with all these fucking high scores strutting around.
>>8268423
This seems like bullshit but it reinforces my ego so I'm choosing to accept it. Even though my life is an utter conflagration of filth this clickbait quiz validates me in a way that's truly fulfilling and gives me the strength to continue laboring and mindlessly consuming to prop up a system for which I still bear vague disdain, but can no longer muster the will to offer meaningful resistance or even complain about anymore. I guess that means I've either grown or given up. Probably both.
>>8268481
Me and you m8
choosing the first answer everytime
>>8268533
Holy shit I started that post as a joke but I'm so fucking depressed. Time to burn my life down and start over.
>23k
>see 29ks
>sperg out
fuck me
>>8268522
>not using the same font
>>8268533
acquiescence
H-h-h-hey is 10k good for a non native?
fuck me.
29625
I guessed on a good quarter of them. I guess it's about recognizing the structure and my vague recollection of word associations as much as actually knowing what the words mean.
It's like Jeopardy. You don't know the answer but you make an educated guess based on what you know it isn't.
>It's a "Do you know what synonym/antonym mean quiz"
Also
>antonym of normal
>abnormal is not an option
30500
>>8268423
>>8268478
>>8268481
>>8268493
>>8268508
>>8268511
>>8268519
>>8268533
>>8268534
>you can create new words that will expand the english language
>implying most new words aren't created by the lowest common denominator to simplify language to their level
it's like redonk, right? lol!
http://ryzhknd.tumblr.com/psy
http://ryzhknd.tumblr.com/pol
Good to know that I'm allowed to blezillkept new words now.
>>8268559
Even when it's not lowest common denominator, it's to simplify stuff
>Milton writing PL
>Hmm, how can I say that this is the place where all of the demons were?
>Pandaemonium
>>8268584
milton's a step ahead of most of these
>http://public.oed.com/the-oed-today/recent-updates-to-the-oed/june-2016-update/new-words-notes-june-2016/
Surprisingly didn't cheat once.
>>8268569
>REI
>Highest ranked in the thread.
I'm both, surprised, and not surprised by this. Weird.
Pretty easy test tbqh. Kind of makes you wonder that 90% of the posts in this thread are supposedly in the top fraction of a percent.
>>8268423
Fun fact: you're statistically more likely to get struck by lightning on the way to winning the lottery than have a word coined. Yay hope.
>>8268608
>acknowledging tripfags
ew
Non-native speaker here.
>>8268609
anyone with an average or below-average vocabulary probably isn't on the literature section of a mongolian fish-painting board
I got 30150 and I haven't even read the greeks.
>You are Shakespeare! You can even create new words that will expand the English dictionary.
SUCC
>>8268643
>I got 30150 and I haven't even read the greeks.
Wut? The Greeks aren't difficult to read. Do you have a mental disability or something?
>>8268643
>e-statting your vocabulary
shameful AND pathetic
you guys are all so fucking dumb i scored over 9000 and im not even that smart
>>8268649
I wouldn't know because I haven't read them desu senpai
>>8268545
I guess so. It's either that or grow to hate myself more and more until I die.
>>8268659
have you tried drinking a lot every day?
i've been going with that for a while now and it's honestly working pretty well
>>8268667
I drink whenever I become dehydrated.
>>8268670
do you mean beer? because i meant beer
>>8268674
You should be more cognizant.
>>8268481
got the same, feels great
>>8268675
you should be more drunk
>>8268423
I dropped out of college freshman year, btw.
>>8268677
I appreciate the aphorisms.
>>8268625
9k words as a non native. I always thought my English was pretty good.
>>8268677
this is a good idea
>>8268686
ah i meant native speakers. based on the short sample it seems like your grammar is good so it's probably more just a matter of memorizing words at this point for you :)
About what I expected
How hasn't anyone beat this score??
>>8268569
I wonder how reliable this is, since it doesn't seem to include any truly obscure words (and since the test itself is in somewhat broken English), but I got 30500, which is supposedly in the top 0.01%. The test did, however, introduce me to the word 'avulse,' although it's related to 'avulsion,' which I didn't realize at the time.
I am Cantonese
>>8268695
I mean I mostly read in English and German. I guess I just expected my vocabulary to be a little bit better than it is; I do find myself not understanding words in English books from time to time.
>everyone's either around 22k or >29k
huh
>>8268703
It's probably a perfect score for the test.
>Had a brain fart as soon as it switched to antonyms
wew lad.
Nearly had to kill myself ten questions in.
>>8268569
>http://ryzhknd.tumblr.com/pol
what tests are these charts from?
>>8268720
If you've read at least 50 of the sorts of books /lit/ recommends from cover you should easily be able to reach 29k.
>"I AM BECOME THE LOGOS THE SPEAKER OF WORDS."
-- « 零 » !Ry9.FWKNDY
Its pretty mediocre. It seems to give a lot of the answers in different forms than the questions (I don't know the proper grammar terms) and some of them don't seem like real antonyms. The one I remember was "compensate" and "underpay"
>>8268762
you got that one wrong, the antonym was "extort"
>>8268569
>Ayn Rand
30500 words and still a pleb. What a shame...
>>8268767
ok im just a retard that rushed through it then
my first point still stands
seems like too small a sample size of words. I'm also butthurt about my 22650, a whole life of reading and I can't join the cool kids /lit/ club
>>8268554
10000 actually is pretty good for a non natice, especially if you started late in life
>tfw Conrad would fuck my shit at this despite not speaking English until later in life
Also
>baneful
I think I guessed a bit.
this is total bullshit but 29625
Please no bully, I'm French.
Oh, and this test is retarded
Multiple choice tests are always retarded
thanks OP i needed the chortle
i'm unworthy
who /0.01%/ here?
29,450
Top 0.23%.
I'm also a stemfag, suck on that!
http://psychometrics.akresgr.org/vocabsurvey/
is better.
>You indicated that you knew 69% of this random sample of words from the Oxford English Dictionary.
>This indicates that your vocabulary is 35213 ± 4000, with a statistical confidence of 90%.
>>8268767
It wasn't extort though, it was extortion.
It seems a bit odd to say the antonym of a verb is a noun, even if the root itself is the antonym.
>ESL
Feel bed, but I have never learned English.
Non native here.
I've been studying it for all my 21 years and I guess that's an average result for a non native. Also even if you don't know the answer you can accidentally click on the right one, which is not that great, the results aren't quite right.
Do you really use the last words of the test in your daily life? Do you see them in the books only?
>>8269048
You indicated that you knew 36% of this random sample of words from the Oxford English Dictionary.
This indicates that your vocabulary is 18372 ± 4000, with a statistical confidence of 90%.
>tfw apparently on par with a 12-year old yankee
oh well atleast it isn't my native language
>>8268423
I couldn't even get half of the words, but I'm sure I'm well enough as a non-native
Not even a native speaker but I assume this is the maximum score
Shitty test desu and the indiscriminate pitting of verbs, adjectives and nouns as synonyms or antonyms is the height of bad manners and makes my autism flare
>>8268492
It's a bell curve
>>8269055
No, hence why they compare the top percentages to Shakespeare. The average person doesn't have a use for so many words. In fact the average English speaker only speaks and writes at a middle school level. That's why newspapers and magazines (and internet articles) are all written at a 5th grade level.
I remember when I joined the school paper in high school I was told to rewrite my first article two or three times because the language was too complicated.
>>8268469
>that shit grammar
Lol
>>8268466
Here's a comparison.
>>8269070
>discriminate pitting of verbs, adjectives and nouns
This is what gives it away as the worst sort of clickbait.
>>8269025
>You indicated that you knew 61% of this random sample of words from the Oxford English Dictionary.
>This indicates that your vocabulary is 31130 ± 4000, with a statistical confidence of 90%.
That sounds about right.
29625 / 0.19% and I'm only a backward Slav.
>>8269025
lmao this test was bull shit
>You indicated that you knew 76% of this random sample of words from the Oxford English Dictionary.
>This indicates that your vocabulary is 38785 ± 4000, with a statistical confidence of 90%.
30150, top 0.01%
not bad for a yorkshireman
being better than >94% of the world is pretty cool i guess. kinda says more about the average human's literacy than my own, really.
>>8269055
I got double your score and im French. You're just shit, deal with it
>>8269163
why would you even know the words you won't use? There's no point to fill you head with garbage you don't need. Deal with it.
/v/ here
this was fun nigga
>>8269025
Feels like there aren't enough words on this one, especially since some are very specific to certain world/business/hobby cultures, with there not being enough of them that they don't introduce a huge uncertainty
(~45000 ± 4000 though I clicked yes on a few terms I wasn't familiar with using but can guess the meaning of without ambiguity)
>>8269025
Half of the words are misspelt. Got 30k±4k anyhow.
Good for a non-native speaker i guess.
Fucking embarrassing, do I just need to read more?
>>8269172
It's not like I make a conscious effort to learn new vocabulary. I just read books and look up whatever words I don't already know.
And it's nice to add a bit of variety to your everyday speech
I sure am glad I did Latin for 2 years :^)
>>8269197
It's fucking terrible m8. I'm non-native and got pic related.
le meme test
OP should beBANNED.
non-native here. at least i'm qualified to post on 4chan with this result.
Guys, NOBODY fucKEN CARES
I don't know who you people are!!!!!!!!!!
Don't fall for it!
reeeetc
Didn't know
>incipient
>avulse
>2nd definition on buoyant
Top 8% as a non-native ROFL. Are Americans really this retarded? I barely even read books, I've read 2 books so far this year.
Non-native.
As a non-native speaker I'm fine with this.
>>8268569
>ryzhknd.tumblr.com
lol
>>8268569
>ryzhknd.tumblr.com
>ryzhknd.tumblr.com
>ryzhknd.tumblr.com
fucking LOL
I know there were a few I guessed on, wish I'd noted what they were.
>>8269677
samefag, yes openly, my blog, thank god no
Ummm this is surprising
>>8269660
>>8269666
>mundusmillennialis.com
Same author.
I got a shit score (higher than 10,000 lower than 15,000) Most of the words I knew from the school year (and I got 100% on all the vocab quizzes on those words) but forgot during summer, or maybe I'm just shit, probably the latter
>>8268423
Do I get a prize?
22800, English is my second language. I did not know some words and might have made a lucky guess.
>an untimed test where the answers can be googled
compelling thread, OP
>>8269200
Anything above 20,000 means you'll probably understand any word used in conversation unless your talking to Oxford literature professors
In most books you can just look up definitions of certain words you don't understand that's what technologies for
I got an even lower score but I can read most books reasonably fine although I have to look up a few words here and there
>>8269677
It's pretty cool, imo
>>8269200
I firmly believe that everything can and should be conveyed as to a fifth grader.
If you can't do that, then your ideas aren't clear enough.
So you're fine. Imo.
I got either 10,400 or 14000 I forgot (Both shit I know), I'm a high school native English speaker, although there were a few words I knew but just forgot towards the back end of the test, some of those words(at the back) were foreign to me, what's the easiest way to gain a bigger vocabulary, should I just read more?
>>8269880
underage pls go
>>8269909
I'm younger than a lot of people on this board but still embarrassed
>>8269163
tbqhwu if your native language is romance then this should be easier. the other guy might speak tagalog or some bullshit. english is 1/3 french remember
>>8269197
think, 60% of native english speakers speak shitter english than you
>>8269163
It's not a big deal for Franch or Germany speakers.
>muh Latinate words
This is why English sucks. It has been cucked by Latin and Greek words that are so alien to the eternal Anglo we don't even understand a massive portion of our (Woodstock) vocabulary. Ask these euros with their romance language think they are so smart for knowing more English than a native speaker... truthfully they are likely relying more on their native romance language than their actual English ability.
>>8268423
I feel pretty good about this score, considering that I live in a non-english speaking country.
>>8269986
>Implying biologists aren't exposed to Latin and Greek through binomial nomenclature
>tfw Nabokov was a biologist
>>8268423
Not a 'native' speaker but since I moved to Australia when I was 11 I feel like a fucking pleb. Please tell me some of you guys cheated
>>8270012
>>>8269986 (You)
>>2016
>>He doesn't absorb Latin and Greek through biological nomenclature.
>>2016
>Even Nabokov was a biologist :^)
>>8270031
>>>8269986 (You)
>>Implying biologists aren't exposed to to Latin and Greek through binomial nomenclature
>>tfw Nabokov was a biologist
>>8270034
You're rather neurotic aren't you?
>>8270037
Nah I just stuffed up my first shitpost senpai :)
>>8270037
also why do you care this much about a random anon?
>>8268449
same, so /lit/ can I read GR, Ulysses, and IJ being this dumb?
>>8269856
Supposedly it counts for time as well, but I took it again and I think that may be bullshit.
>>8268493
>>8268519
>>tfw 29800 club
didn't start reading until four years ago, I'm relieved that I didn't do TOO terribly
>>8269162
I got the exact same score.
I'm Italian
>>8269986
or you could just learn Latin, you lazy fuck
>>8268423
fuck that was easy
This is off-topic but I got offered a job as a custodian in a highschool (after-hours). Should I take it? I'm considering passing on the job and ending my life soon.
>>8270210
Take the job, you might decide it was worth it later.
>>8268423
18 y/o Russian guy here
misclicked one (fugacious instead of fractious), woops.
>>8270210
after hours janitor sounds absolutely chill as fuck, i would love that job. temporarily.
Well, it's my third language.
>>8270122
Got the same score. Anyone lower than 30k should be banned.
Top 39.40%
Your vocabulary size is like that of a 12-year-old teenager in the US!
I'm 24 from Eastern Europe. How fucked am I?
>>8268423
Me and you OP. Seems that the average vocab is pretty promising on this Guyanese motor sports forum.
>>8270283
Depends on what you want to do with your Engrish skillz.
>>8270290
speak and be heard
>>8270292
Should be fine then. Besides you probably have a cute Eastern European accent.
>>8270298
I have a Russian accent, both in English and in German, I have no idea why, i'm Romanian.
>>8268508
That's the score I got, too. Had no idea what "avulse" meant, but I could make educated guesses on the rest of them.
>>8270283
Anon, I'm 20 and from Eastern Europe too and
Top 6.83%
Your vocabulary is at the level of professional white-collars in the US!
Didn't you simply fuck the test up a little bit?
>>8270321
Pretty weird but hey, it's a lot better. Romanian accent sounds kay from girls but pretty shitty from men, while Russian is awesome from both.
Did better than I expected. 20 year old chemistry major so I'm 10 years ahead of my time.
>>8270343
>/pol/ confirmed to shitpost on /lit/
Better than I expected.
>>8270343
>streaming anime
I feel like I should know more with a BA in English. I wish I hadn't phoned in my degree.
>>8270382 Do you read?
>>8270370
>Wasting hard drive space on Psycho Pass
>>8270387
>streaming doesnt take up hdd space
ok m8
Got 30000 not bad I guess for my 6th language
>>8270382
You really, really, really should.
30150 penis reporting. closing thread now.
I think this is equivalent to 48/50 correct. Neat I guess. *goes back to shitposting instead of reading books*
Not bad for a non-native speaker eh?
I'm 18
How does one bring this up?
>>8270426
Well, you're not a native speaker, r-right?
>>8268533
holy fucking shit dude
10100
non native
i think peoples who are able to get a high score while being non native are those who speak it instead of just reading it.
>>8270432
I am bro.
>I'm From Florida
I'm only good at Math.
>>8269331
I only know incipient because it was used in an episode of Archer lol
anyone got the responses?
i got a 13 year old result and i wondering where i fucked up.
>>8270438
Most of the words in the harder questions are things that you will never hear spoken. They appear in books but that's about it.
>>8270448
>i wondering where i fucked up
well, i can tell you where to start looking
>>8270410
i got the same. quite happy
>>8270438
Nah, I got 22k+ and rarely (pretty much never) speak it, because nobody around me does. Though I speak Russian, German and a bit Spanish, so could guess many words even though I never saw some of them in use. Also couple of the Latin stuff in the middle is used in universities pretty often.
>>8270442
Weird, I assumed anybody native would at least get 10k, specially given that we're on lit.
>>8270481
>Weird, I assumed anybody native would at least get 10k, specially given that we're on lit.
I don't read.
>>8270484
Not even textbooks for school/uni? Something like "surge" is bound to come up in a history or economics book. What about news?
Why did you pick such a slow board for shitposting?
>>8270410
Here's a new word since I'm such a genius: urble.
No I don't know what it means.
>>8270487
I'm trying to replace video games with reading,they don't make me happy
The only real happy childhood memories I have are from when I used to read a lot.
I was just looking for recommendations.
my boss always tells me he loves my vocabulary choices
If only I could write in english without looking like a moron
Check these numbers out
>>8268554
I got 20k as a non native. 10k is not really a good score.
>>8268423
I'm honestly surprised. I never considered English vocab to be one of my strong points.
>>8270438
22800 here and not native. Never been in an english speaking country for more than 15 days.
>>8268498
I thought about it for one, but guessed and seem to have gotten it right.
>>8270386
I'm trying to read more now. I was mainly into film,anime, and video games[\spoiler] in college. I'm reading The Tin Drum right now.
>>8268423
This test must not be very accurate. I have a horrible vocabulary, but can often tease out meaning based on word roots.
Any less than 30,000 is non-native-tier.
English is not even my L1 plebs
I was expecting worse desu, I need to read more non-fiction I think.
>>8271016
Why are the numbers on your in a different font?
>>8269025
>service – a European tree of the genus Sorbis.
yeah, over it
>the antonym of baneful
>no option 'for you'
>>8271063
I'm pretty sure we've got the second best scores possible, which basically means we have the best score possible because anyone that does flawlessly is probably actively googling words to get that score.
30325 is the best of both worlds, it's extremely high and yet there is also no doubt of its authenticity.
>>8271185
>I'm pretty sure we've got the second best scores possible, which basically means we have the best score possible because anyone that does flawlessly is probably actively googling words to get that score.
Way to rationalize and project your own mediocrity, idiot.
Really, is it that inconceivable to your petty mind that someone can answer all these easy as fuck items correctly?
29450. Most of these were extremely easy, but the ones I missed, I only knew maybe 1-2 out of the 5 total words.
got 22350. I'm alright with that considering I don't even read.
>>8271185
>people can't be smarter than me
Alright, mate.
Shit-
My native language is Spanish
but still...
>>8271233
>12-year-old teenager
was not expecting a test that easy
maxed the score at 30150 and closed tab out of disgust
>>8269055
>Non native here
german here.
Non native english speaker
>>8271198
>>8271224
It just occurred to me as I was doing the test that it would be really easy to just google the words and cheat and therefore perfect scores were suspect, egad.
I know /lit/ is intellectually insecure, but it's been a long time since I've seen people project that hard that easily.
I didn't even mention IQ scores and you're already frothing at the mouth, lol.
>>8268423
29450 non native speaker here
>>8271198
>Really, is it that inconceivable to your petty mind
I have no stake in this, but I would just like to point out that you're a huge faggot.
ESL lol
The testyourvocab.com one seems much more reliable and legitimate to me. On that one I got a 33300, which seems to be higher than this one can go. I'd recommend taking that one.
>You are Shakespeare! You can even create new words that will expand the English dictionary.
how cheverious.
>>8271333
This isn't fair. That I am not an island monkey either is exactly why there is nothing extraordinary to my ear about the terms in English which Guillaume I. of Normany brought with him from the continent, or which were much more common in the days when, to trade in London, you'd had to know some Spanish and some Dutch.
t. Computer Scientist
There. The same test in a nutshell:
http://www.strawpoll.me/10732725
Some of these words are just ridiculous.
I think i got lucky.
>>8268994
The most "sophisticated" words in English are actually French, so if you know French, you are supposed to know these words. In French, it's much more common to use these words than in English, due to the nature of the language and its history. French is extremely elitist.
Shakespeare is much easier to read if you speak french.
My result.
Had no idea about "incipient" and "avulse".
I know what "aggrieved" means, and thought I knew all four words they proposed, but none seemed to fit.
I know what "querulous" means, but I had no idea what "fractious" and "extemporaneous" meant, so I had to guess.
oh shit, I'm a mother fuckin' beast
>>8271185
I tried cheating and still only got 30325.
>>8271627
Just edit the HTML.
I don't like that people with lower scores than me are also getting called Shakespeare
>>8271578
If you know Latin you know all the French ones and the Latin ones too.
Words like "adumbration", "crepuscular", "oscitation", "sparsion", etc. are easy.
The hard words are the archaic and/or dialectical English words.
i got a perfect score on my reading SATs lol
