Http://testyourvocab.com/

As it appearsI just look it up once and as many times I need to before I don't need to look it up anymore. I also look at the etymology and try and remember that, it has an additive effect.

40,100

>45k. I think I broke it.

that last column of words looked made up

How do you memorize all the words you're not familiar with when you are born into this world without any knowledge of language?

20,300 words
Cool

I was a little surprised by how many I didn't know.

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39k im disappoint

are you 16?

26 k
That last page exposed me for the pleb I am

pic: me

>When you're reading and you face a unknown word, you search the meaning and then you write it somewhere?

sometimes yes, if I'm lazy I just try to use context to have a vague notion of the meaning. if I hear or read a word used in sentences enough times, I pick up at least an instrumental familiarity with the word.

>How do you memorize all words you're not familiar with?

by using them in writing, conversation, etc.

23. 70-80 percentile is bretty good to me because 1) it's a good percentile as is, and 2) this is a test that's likely taken by the strongest readers on average (and multiple times, at that). If this weren't a voluntary test, I'd assume it'd bump up the percentile quite a bit.

I also strictly followed the "only click the checkmark if you know one accurate definition, not if you've just seen the word before" guideline. I'm not salty about that, though.

To add a direct quote:
>Comparing with self-reported SAT scores from previous analysis, overall participation is in roughly the 98th percentile of the American population as a whole — it is apparently a very "elite" group of people who spend their time taking vocabulary tests on the Internet!
testyourvocab.com/blog/2013-05-08-Native-speakers-in-greater-detail

I recognise more words than I know the meaning of.

21.9k. I need to read more fiction.

Write it down somewhere in a list with other words you want to learn, look it up for the definition, looking it up a few more times over the next day or so if you still don't remember or aren't clear, and use it when you can to drill them into your working vocab.

WAKE ME UP.

I may have been a little harsh by not checking words I 'knew' but thought I couldn't explain properly to someone who asked for a precise definition, but still, my vocab does need a lot of work. Any resources?

I thought for sure I'd be significantly above average but apparently I'm not even 70th percentile. Although I would also guess that the testtakers aren't representative of the average population.

I used to have a Kindle where you could just highlight any word and get the definition, that was really helpful.

27,200 for a non-english speaker
All thanks to Veeky Forums

30,300

>testyourvocab.com/
31,200. I'm bilingual English/German

A non-native speaker. Considering that the only two novels I read in English were Pride and Prejudice and A Game of Thrones, it's not that bad.
Though I still feel bad for not getting the native-speaker average.

Don't tell me you sold it.

so frustrating
I keep getting directed to a page only saying "The table 'answers' is full", after the initial 1/3 of the test

Same.

I'm going to try a different browser to see if that fixes it.

Trying a different browser didn't work.

Guess I'll never know how much stupid I truly am.

which browser did you switch to?

since I can't take the test on my computer, can somebody do me a cheeky little favor and let me do a test by proxy?

Keeps saying the table answers is full...wtf

Same problem over here. I guess just try again later or something.

no. ~Real~ Intelligence is not revealed by vocabulary- usually its your ability to problem solve while using logic that determines whether or not you're a brainlet.

Everytime I come across a word I don't know, I put it into this flashcard app called Anki. I just practice that every few days and I get better and better until the words become familiar.

>Non native
>8k
Well.

every column of words is made up

I should be embarrassed

>all those words you recognize from studying in school but didn't retain because of how disposable the education system is
Please tell me I'm not the only one.

>doesn't even ask you to define the words
There has to be a better test than this.

>tfw 55K
>tfw too smart to afford a screen to screenshot

I used Chrome initially and then switched to Safari.

By the way, it's working for me right now on chrome.

Read and look up words that you don't know or deduce their meaning/function by their usage. That's literally it, we'd all be on 8-14k without reading anything more than twitter/facebook and having basic English education. I've learnt plenty of words from browsing Veeky Forums alone.

Eh, whatever. Doesn't really matter to me. Btw am native speaker.

Yeah, I signed up to vocabulary.com and am going to study more vocab until I make a large improvement. Its a great website/program too; you can learn word lists relating to particular fields, authors or categories of words.

I never appreciated that feature until I had to get ebooks for uni and the text was actually a challenge. Plus it also doubles as a porn machine so that's cool.