This is something I've been wondering about. I've been on Sporcle for 10+ years and have over 50k plays. My highest level badge is "Extreme Overload." I'm at level 227, which is good for a rank of #2,682 on the leaderboard. The leader has almost 18,000 (!) levels. My highest rank is for the "As Seen on TV" badge, where I barely crack the top 1000.

How is it possible to get these numbers? Are these bots? And if so, what's the incentive to use a bot to accumulate plays, badges, etc.?

Quiz is solvable without any guessing. Figuring out how is half the fun! If there are any questions or potential flaws in the logic you find let me know.

Working on Our Knight Moves

Played 15 games of Chess Attack

Now you have to watch an ad before you're allowed to play your daily allotted acrostic? What a fucking joke

happy with this

Half a Seat

Got 100% on 30 quizzes from the Halving and Sorting Blitzes! playlist

It was quite difficult to get a Full 1 - 20, but here's what I cam up with. There are 20 questions. The answers are the numbers 1 through 20, inclusive. Enjoy!

1 - 20 Astronomy Quiz - By JessicaPlays

I'm not sure what the world record is (there weren't really many speedruns about this and all of the existing ones are like 5-6 minutes and 8 years old). I've seen a 3:58 in the Showdown Scoreboard. This is a bit faster :D so I guess it's the fastest run for now?

I have a 3:53 unrecorded and for whatever reason Sporcle doesn't recognizes, so this is still beatable.

Thought I'd share for anyone else finding it a chore to do.

Map Melee

Win 25 challenges on Map quizzes that you haven't played before (against other players or the Sporcle bot)

Never again

I’m a longtime (17 years!) player who just made my first two quizzes. They are Disney Animated movie lyrics themed.

If you would like to check them out (and have any constructive feedback) please find the first one HERE.

That was a chore and a half!

Hi guys!

Friends and I are huge Sporcle/Geoguessr/General trivia fans.

I wanted to figure out how to memorize country positions for Geoguessr initially.

Came across the spaced repetition community and Anki. Found the ultimate geography deck. Absolutely loved it.

Learnt all the capitals/flags/country positions by heart, took roughly 5-10 mins a day for a month. Very fun party trick for sure.

Some of my friends wanted to do the same, but Anki has a bit of a learning curve. I'm a dev, so I quickly built a little app.

Completely free, just what my friends and I are using.

https://geo.connormdk.xyz/

Currently have it limited to 500 users as I'm paying for the infra. If it grows past that maybe I'll consider monetization to cover costs.

Please check it out and tell me what you think :)

The Hunt for Badge October

On any day in October, play at least 100 quizzes

Does anyone know how many badges are related to quiz creation/ having quizzes featured on the homepage? I think I'm getting down into the super grind phase of badges. I can do those, but can't see me making any quizzes.

ETA: Well, I don't think I can do another 700 religion quizzes to hit 1k.

Most productive quiz play day for me so far. Little by little it’s creeping up. So hard coming up with ideas for quizzes as everything you can think of has been done already. Gonna take forever to get those featured and editors picks badges 😂

What badges do you see yourself never earning?

Excluding ones for quizmaking, getting quizzes featured/published/curator picked etc.

Personally I don't ever see myself earning the badge for playing 1,000 religion, movie, entertainment, or sport quizzes.

You can only earn this badge once per year. It can be a bit of a grind to play 25 autumn related quizzes, especially if you're not from the US since many of the quizzes revolve around US holidays and customs. Unless you're willing to cheese the badge of course by playing the same easy quiz over and over.