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World 500K+ Cities Locator Timed Challenge

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The object of this quiz is to click on 500K+ city locations as quickly and accurately as you can. You get 25 random World cities from among all World 250K+ cities. You will be scored based on Time, Distance, and Closest Cities. Closest Cities refers to how many cities (among ALL 50K+ cities, not just 500K+ ones) are located closer to the actual city’s location than where you clicked. Upon clicking START you will see cities listed one at a time in the upper right on the side of the map. Double-click where that city is as fast and accurately as possible. You will then get a score of 0-100 based on those 3 factors. Also, up to 10 of the closest cities to the target city that you weren’t within will be displayed. Click NEXT CITY to continue on.

To make things easier, you will get at most 2 cities from each country each time you play.

NOTE – For cities with the same name, you are trying to click on the LARGEST city of that name.

For Premium members, this quiz is much easier to play on Google Maps full screen mode.

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mlnbld

25 days ago

Fun quiz! Perhaps weight the scoring more towards actual distance. Since so many cities are or have suburbs, it’s very hard to avoid the Closest Cities penalty, unless you take a hit on Time. You end up with a score of 50-60 regardless. However, you get 33 for free by just clicking wherever within 3/4 seconds if you don’t know a city.

Maybe make it closest cities of 500.000+ only? Not sure where the cutoff is now, but that makes the most sense to me with the quiz title.