I tried to do this periodic table quiz and in 15 minutes I was only able to name 54/118 elements. I should have gotten 2 more, but I couldn't seem to spell Bohrium or Lanthanum correctly. Well, I really should have gotten about 30 more. Still, according to the statistics of people who have taken the test, I'm well off the bell curve on the "good side," but I still think I should have done better.
I got all of the alkalis, all of the noble gasses with the exception of mega-exotic and -unstable "Ununoctium", and a healthy dose of the transuranics. I got a lot of ones that most people miss because we use some exotic stuff where I work. Not a lot of people got Neodymium, for instance. Though the fact that I missed Cadmium is pretty inexcusable; I work with that stuff everyday.
Having looked at the table for a couple minutes (just at the abbreviations, and for it to count on the quiz you have to spell out the whole name), I took the test again and got 78/118. At least I got over half that time... Humorously, I missed Titanium, Thorium, and Fermium the second time around but got them the first time.
OK, Dad, I'm guessing that you can get them all. The real question is... how long does it take you? My money is on 9 minutes.
This is the aforementioned dad.
I got 106 in 15 minutes. I got everthing through lawrencium, but had trouble with the newer synthetics. Still, to 2% isn't bad. I type too slow to make the speed list.
Yeah, but I bet you can also place all the elements in the right positions. If I had to do that, I don't imagine I'd get more than 25 or so.
76 out of 118. I can't spell and apparently ununoctium and the like have real names now. Damn IUPAC and their non-memo sending ways.
What I've learned here is that I can't spell. I tried so hard to spell technetium, to no avail. Embarrassingly, I only got 49--and I missed vanadium, an element on which I've seen maybe 5 hour-long talks in the last year. Sheesh.
Tom Lehrer's "The Elements" sure helps out on this one. If you don't know it, check it out here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNfx0FO4hzs
I got hung up on Fluorine.
I kept trying to spell it 'Flourine', or 'Florine'.