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Originally Posted by Variol (Farseer) Elmwood
I don't know how some of you read those questions so fast though.. crazy stuff,
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It takes a lot of practice. It took me months to get my times down into the 45-60s range, and I was able to slowly bring it down after that. Now I can sometimes turn in a time in the mid 30s, but only on easy categories where I skim questions and spot answers quickly.
On many days, I couldn't tell you what the full questions actually were--I saw a few key words and matched it to an answer choice (or I saw 'all of the above' and skipped the question entirely!). For example, if I see Isaac Newton in the question, and apple, pear, grapefruit, and orange are the answers, I pick apple and move on. No need to read the whole question.
And of course, I'll never start a quiz unless I have a stable net connection and a scroll-wheel mouse attached.
When the category is like sports or music and I know I'll be guessing alot, I usually just go with the choice that sounds more famous. Those days my times aren't so low, as I have to read the whole question and decide what to guess.