Bee Hoon Posted November 16, 2007 Posted November 16, 2007 Click here for a website that pledges to donate 10 grains of rice for each word that you get right. And here is a BBC news article about it. What are you waiting for? Clicky clicky!
Jasper_Kazai Posted November 16, 2007 Posted November 16, 2007 I did that yesterday. I got to 500 grains and my vocab level was around 30-34.
mimartin Posted November 16, 2007 Posted November 16, 2007 Does this go on forever? I'm learning and feeding people at the same time. Is 1000 grains enough for a meal? I hope so because I'm tired of it.
Serpentine Cougar Posted November 16, 2007 Posted November 16, 2007 Yeah, I saw this before; did 500 grains with a score of about 37. This helps you prepare for the SAT!
Rev7 Posted November 17, 2007 Posted November 17, 2007 This is awesome!! Good scouting BeeHoon! I will do this to feed the hungry, and learn a TON!
tk102 Posted November 17, 2007 Posted November 17, 2007 And I thought bean-counting was a bad job... 487 grains... 488 grains...
Meowster Posted November 17, 2007 Posted November 17, 2007 Do to my supreme lack of boredom, I managed to contribute exactly 5000 grains of rice, within 36-40 level.
Samuel Dravis Posted November 17, 2007 Posted November 17, 2007 Contest! I did 1000 grains in 8:45, for an average of one answered correctly ever 5.25 seconds. Vocabulary level 40 (not sure what that means though). Going slower later on I averaged about level 42-3. Someone beat me!
Bee Hoon Posted November 17, 2007 Author Posted November 17, 2007 I did 4000 grains yesterday when I should have been preparing for class (oops). Anyway, level ranging from 36 to 43, depending on... the weather:/
Rogue15 Posted November 17, 2007 Posted November 17, 2007 wow, great find! I loved getting these types of questions on end of year tests throughout school cause i usually did well on that portion. it's nice that it shows you what the word means if you get it wrong.
SilentScope001 Posted November 17, 2007 Posted November 17, 2007 There was a website (I forgot its name) where they would give $0.05 to charity for every click. I spent all day clicking.
Totenkopf Posted November 17, 2007 Posted November 17, 2007 I stopped at 420, with level of 43. Man, almost felt like digging up my old Word Power Made Easy (though I suppose a thesaurus would've worked too).
Rev7 Posted November 17, 2007 Posted November 17, 2007 I have leveled out at about 35-40.... I dunno about you, but it sure does make me feel good inside knowing that I (of all people) somewhat helped feed a hungry person somewhere out in that world of ours...
Jasper_Kazai Posted November 17, 2007 Posted November 17, 2007 Vocabulary level 40 (not sure what that means though).When you keeping getting questions right, the vocab level goes up, meaning the questions are harder. When you get questions wrong, it goes down.
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