I got typed them all with 7:49 left. And in alphabetical order! Anybody who ever learned the "50 Nifty United States" song gets to cheat on this one.

(Of course, I guess it's not really cheating since, in essence, we did learn and remember them when we were young. But still.)

Fifty nifty United States from thirteen original colonies! Shout 'em, spout 'em, tell all about 'em, one by one...

That's the one I remember, mostly...

I've been to every state but five on various road trips so for me it wasn't so much an exercise in remembering the states as remembering the trips.

Olympic soccer, 1992 - Washington, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illionois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Massachussetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut (which I forgot), New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Pennsylvania again, Ohio, Indiana again, Illinois again, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Washington again.

Retrieve Lani, 1998 - Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington

6-week Sabbatical, 2004 - California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California.

Walt's 100th birthday in Marceline, 2001

etc....


It's all in the mnemonics.

I do it in clusters, geographically. I get jumbled in the middle sometimes, but we've played this on road trips to pass time. Name all the states, then find license plates from them.

I got all of them in 5:50, wish there were an "I'm done" button though.

Bloody Arkansas!!!


(actually, at 4:06 elapsed, I had named 47. It took me till the two minute mark to realize Alaska and Hawaii were never going to appear on my mental map of the "lower 48" that I kept scanning in my head. Turns out Arkansas' not there in my head ... and maybe that's a good thing.)

I was actually doing pretty well- I had 4 states to go at 4:30 mins, but I got hung up on spelling Massachusetts and then decided a glass of wine was a more attractive alternative.

No, I can't.

What is this song some of you are talking about? I've never heard of it.

Me neither. I was feeling I got a substandard 5th grade education.

I sucked at this, I can't spell anything. If you could use the postal abreviations I would have rocked.

I like the Animaniacs song. That's got the states and the capitals. :D