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jzer0coollast Friday at 11:35 PM3 repliesview on HN

What background you all have that contributed you think to scoring 100


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dogmatismyesterday at 12:19 AM

I read a lot, and have since I was a child

edit: also, native English (well, American) speaker

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petesergeantyesterday at 7:07 AM

I got 96. I think I knew about 87 of them just from knowing them, and the rest I got with a bit of Latin and Greek background (eg a word starting with “ab” is likely to mean “away from”), plus there’s a pattern to how they’d generated the wrong answers.

devmoryesterday at 12:24 AM

I missed two, but I’m willing to be tthey’re similar to me - I read a lot and whenever I encounter a new word I don’t know, I usually look up its etymology.