Alright, scenesters and trainspotters! Now's the time to finally put your knowledge where your flamewars are. Ishkur's EDM Challenge: The lightning round quiz show that tests your electronic music fortitude.
Are you ready? Then do it. If you're not registered yet, then REGISTER HERE. After that, come back here and BRING THE PAIN!!!
You have ten questions, each firing at you "You Don't Know Jack" style, so make sure you are somewhere quiet right now where you can do some quick thinking with minimal distractions (in other words: Kids, don't try this at work).
You have 15 seconds to answer each question, and the time stops for no one. So HA HA you cheaters trying to google/memorize the answers. That would just slow you down anyway. Your score is based on how quickly you can get the right answers, not how many right answers you get. It is altogether possible to not get every question right but to get an awesome score, but you'll have to be awfully quick about it.
The questions are completely random. 10 of them are culled from a database of hundreds, and their answers are completely random so they never fall on the same letters. So don't even try to record/track/tell others what the answers are ahead of time. They will get an entirely different test than you and all your collusion is useless. There's no pattern or consistent inside angle you can get from this thing. Either you know the answer and you answer it quickly or you don't. Plain and simple.
Do not try to abort or quit your game halfway through. You will void your game, your score will be thrown out and you will get zero points and will have to wait 10 stupid days to try again. If you're having a crummy game, at least finish it off, lick your wounds and be better next time. The reason for this is you may only take the test once every 10 days. This figure may change depending on how well or poorly things go, but for now it's a bottleneck to prevent people (you know who you are) from throttling this thing. Especially since valuable user points are given out for worthy scores, and they're the next best thing to currency on this site (or will be, eventually).
There are plans in the works for a "practise" version where you don't have to register and it doesn't record your score and you get no points for it (and having a timer is optional), but I want to wait until I populate the thing with a gargantuan number of questions first. Like, so many, that no matter how many times you play the thing, you'll never be able to memorize them. I haven't even memorized every one, and I wrote them all.
A perfect score is 1500. It proves that not only do you know your shit, but you also have the reflexes of a fly. 1000 is an awesome score that will stand the test of time. Test audiences--all of them pretty astute at this electronic music thing--typically scored between 500 and 700. So it's like an SAT test, only it can humiliate you live, in public, on the internet. The Leaderboard above only records your highest score, but you still get points every time you take the test.
Any further questions/comments or suggestions? Found a bug? Is the game too hard? Too easy? Are the questions too hard? Not hard enough? I'm always adding new questions to the engine, so if you can think of any, pop them my way, I'll give you points for the ones I use.
Good luck, happy hunting, break a leg, kick ass, take names, chew bubblegum, Phase II: The Profits of Awesomeness.
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