FreeRice [Archive]

Ayachuco

11-12-2007, 04:23

I'm a lowly 33, darn those one syllable words.
I guess I consume about 2500 grains of rice per meal so that puts me about 5000-6000 grains of rice per day. Man, I need to horde less rice.

Sasaki Kojiro

11-12-2007, 04:43

Was at 46 after 490 grains. Would probably have gone up.

Those words are wicked hard though. The ones I knew I've never used in real life, and there were bunches I've never heard before but I did pretty well at guessing their meaning for some reason. A lot comes down to etymology I think.

DemonArchangel

11-12-2007, 05:19

I plan to do 100 words a day for the next month, which should feed one person for roughly a week.

Papewaio

11-12-2007, 05:23

41 at 1kg

CountArach

11-12-2007, 08:52

I plan to do 100 words a day for the next month, which should feed one person for roughly a week.
Perhaps we should start an Org challenge to see who can do the most in a week? I'd be up for it.

Mikeus Caesar

11-12-2007, 12:40

By time i reached 280 i had a vocab level of 39. I'm currently on 370. I'll do it to 500 then call it quits.

Louis VI the Fat

11-12-2007, 12:44

36 at 1970 grams.

I'm quite happy with 36. Some were fiendishly hard or obscure.

Sometimes I didn't even know what half the words in the answer meant. But with some etymology and logic I got a long way. The great thing about English is that most of it's 'difficult' words are derived from Latin languages. Or they are the local variant of international Greek / Latin words.

English academic discourse is easier to understand than a pub conversation.

Ramses II CP

11-12-2007, 15:55

At 1000g I'm at 48. I confess to some lucky guesses and pattern observation (gorse) but also to missing some words whose alternate definitions I should have known (panoply!) As with any multiple choice test if you take your time and use clues within the question (word) it isn't hard to get even a complete unknown down to a 50-50 possibility.

Of course I guess taking your time is rather counter purposeful in light of the larger goal of the site. :idea2: I suspect if I buzzed through them I'd be in the 40 range. Does the rating go above fifty?

:egypt:

Myrddraal

11-12-2007, 16:46

39 at 960

Highest I had it at was 41. That was hard, the next one is particularly hard and I don't know the answer, so if I carry on my score will be punished... :wink:

Husar

11-12-2007, 17:03

I have 230 grains now and a vocab level of 36.
Some words are a bit weird but many can be easily derived from latin. :shrug:

Myrddraal

11-12-2007, 17:29

That, and you can get a few by process of ellimination.

Also some of their 'definitions' are very loose indeed, they're like they came out a dodgy thesaurus. A good test, but not so good for learning new words.

Big King Sanctaphrax

11-12-2007, 18:46

44 at 500.

I agree with what some have said above, if you know a little Latin it's a lot easier.

DemonArchangel

11-12-2007, 20:50

4150 in total so far, peak vocabulary level at 47.

Craterus

11-12-2007, 21:52

42 at 750.

Vuk

11-12-2007, 22:23

Level 44 words and counting! YAY!
I am sorely tempted to get my dictionary out. :P

Rhyfelwyr

11-12-2007, 22:23

Donated 510, rating a lowly 31.:embarassed:

Vuk

11-12-2007, 22:33

Level 50! Yay! (after taking a drop to 35 and having to recover :P)

Makanyane

11-12-2007, 22:58

Got to 45 then dropped to 40, aarrghh!

It's a nice idea though - good excuse to waste more time on web :wall:

EDIT: did get to 46 a couple of times but keep going back to about 43

Rhyfelwyr

11-12-2007, 23:03

By the way: 100 gr.= one spoon

Is that not a pretty big spoonful?

seireikhaan

11-12-2007, 23:23

Egh. Didn't even notice the 'vocab' level until I was aways through it. By the time I was at 750 grains of rice, I was at 30.

shlin28

11-13-2007, 18:02

Fell to Level 15 (!!!!), then clawed my way back to 32. Got 2000 grains of rice though :yes:

Charge

11-13-2007, 21:52

Fell to Level 15 (!!!!), then clawed my way back to 32. Got 2000 grains of rice though :yes:
No wonder. How do you supposed to know what this words meant if english isn't your primary language?:inquisitive:

Was around 41 (translater did all job :laugh4: )

Makanyane

11-13-2007, 22:03

No wonder. How do you supposed to know what this words meant if english isn't your primary language?:inquisitive:

Was around 41 (translater did all job :laugh4: )

that's kind of depressing you can get just under my average (with minor help from translator - they are quite bad) - and I can't even work out what letters in Russian are :embarassed:

Vuk

11-13-2007, 22:09

that's kind of depressing you can get just under my average (with minor help from translator - they are quite bad) - and I can't even work out what letters in Russian are :embarassed:

lol, the cyrillic alphabet is actually not that hard to read. The hard part is writing it. It all has to be written in cursive! :help:
Mine looks pitifull...but I am just learning. :)

Charge

11-13-2007, 22:50

the cyrillic alphabet is actually not that hard to read. The hard part is writing it. It all has to be written in cursive!hmm.. . Why not write with 'вот такими' (such) letters? It is even faster..

Mine looks pitifull... hehe, I can't even understand english cursive!

Vuk

11-14-2007, 00:54

hmm.. . Why not write with 'вот такими' (such) letters? It is even faster..

hehe, I can't even understand english cursive!

I some times cannot understand English cursive either. :P

econ21

11-14-2007, 11:10

45 at 1000 grains.

It is not really testing my vocab though as I don't know most of the words. It's mainly testing my ability to guess meanings.

Blodrast

11-15-2007, 19:25

45 or 46 (forgot) at 420 grams...
But, if I were to try to guess a "realistic" level, I'd prolly be more at 42-43, judging by how likely you are to actually meet/know/use some of those words in your daily life; stuff above 43 or so becomes unreasonably obscure, imo. Also, for most stuff beyond 43 or so, I didn't always know the meaning, but I can infer it; if you just asked me what that word meant, without giving me possible values to pick from, I wouldn't always know it - hence why I said that realistically it's more like 43. But you can beat any game, of course...

naut

11-17-2007, 13:55

Just started, and my word are they obscure. For example:
Macadam -> Tarmacadam -> Tarmac
Actually most of them don't mean what the answer is, they're actually more than often synonyms.

shlin28

11-17-2007, 22:21

You think tarmacs are obscure??? Then what was I walking on today then... :dizzy2:

Myrddraal

11-19-2007, 11:41

Actually most of them don't mean what the answer is, they're actually more than often synonyms.
:yes:

Rhyfelwyr

11-28-2007, 22:54

Get FreeRicing everyone, its now 20 grains per answer!

Pharnakes

11-29-2007, 02:28

Really, what is the point in this sort of thing?

Its just a stupid thing to make you feel good about yourselves, and to make you think how good the company that runs it is.

Why not just give it anyway?

Seriously, if they actualy cared, they would give it anyway, how can you volcabluary make them want to donate rice!!?

Its even stupider than sponsors.

Harsh maybe, but very true IMHO. I refuse to participate in this farce. If I want to help the world, then I'll do so by donating money straight to charity, and I do. And even that isn't the best option, but there has to be a line somewhere between effiency and practicality, I admit.

Participating in these ridicolous and self defeating marketing ploys that charities are forced to come up with these days will only encourage them to become more prevalent.

Myrddraal

11-29-2007, 12:11

Its even stupider than sponsors.

It is sponsors. Every time you ask a question you're viewing ad on the bottom of the page.

They can't 'just give it away' because they don't have it till you view that page, get the ad revenue, to donate it.