/lit/ - Literature

30,900

22k

Above average, it seems.

Only 17.4k ;_;
But I guess it's not all that bad because English is not my mother tongue.

some interesting, albeit faggoty, words included as part of the test.

27k

I am familiar with every word except most of the right column, but I probably couldn't define a lot of them on a test, so I left a lot blank

42,400
only because i know latin and greek so many like oneiromancy and hypnopompic are obvious even if you haven't actually seen them before.

I need to read more.

35,600

I got 11,100. English is not my native language.

42.4k
Such is life in a library.

I never understood how this work. I mean, I understand the test is just an estimative, but who had the idea to measure vocabulary by "counting words"? Picture yourself writing down all the words you know without repeating. Can you see it reaching that number? Being far behind or far ahead of it? I don't know, I just have absolutely no idea how this is supposed to work.

They say "Shakespeare had X number of words in his vocabulary" and how do they know this? Counting all the different words right? Because if everything is an estimative, then it means absolutely nothing.

>>1934712
They know a little about Shakespeare because of all he wrote..I guess they could count all of those words..he also created hundreds of words which we use today so he was obviously able to see the future as well. Shakespeare thread? I like Titus Andronicus because it was Shakespeare's penny dreadful.

40.6k

I have never used a fair few of the words i checked and most likely never will.

>>1934712
Well obviously it's an estimate. To get a perfectly accurate measure they would need to include every word in the English language in the test.

>>1934719
Forgot to mention that they explain their method too http://testyourvocab.com/details.php

30,300 words.

Fa/tg/uy here. You would be absolutely stunned the number of those I knew from roleplayan games.

16,600 ;_;

Well, I feel shit now.

>>1934717
I'm not saying Shakespeare didn't have a huge vocabulary. But I'm saying how can one estimate a number for it instead of just saying "yo this Shakespeare guy had a huge vocabulary".

>>1934719
I know the test is an estimative, but you need a base to do that and I don't see it. You need something to compare or else, me, you and motherfucking Shakespeare just have a random number attached to our vocabulary.

>>1934733

Hey Tao.

>22,800
>Mfw I don't even care.

33,000
that's all nice and fluffy and better than everyone

31,600.

Do I win?

Also I fucking love the word "mammon". Evokes its meaning perfectly.

23 000

What a load of shit. What if you just happen to be unlucky and get words you don't know on the list?

>>1934741

Methinks the butthurt doth protest too much.

20,500, I'm not a native.

i got 29,800

but english is my second language, so i'm still rather proud of it.

>>1934741
Read how it works: >>1934722
and stop being so butthurt

28,800, meh

i got like 35k but only because i didn't know the stuff on the last row, which when you look them up are mostly just loan words from french with ridiculously specific meanings, or which refer to things so niche that they haven't existed for a few centuries

as expected

>>1934727
I'm not surprised. Got 22k myself as a non-native speaker, but I'd swear I'd have 10-30% less if I didn't spend 3600 hours in WoW last year.
Good to know it wasn't a complete waste of time, although you can't call it efficient either.

25,300
words

And that's with the benefit of Latin and French.

We should make a thread to teach each other jargon, obscure words, latin, and explanations of isms.
29,200

10k
english is my second language.

>"Uxoricide"
>The killing of one's wife
Oh..
I wish i learned latin

>>1934841

>>1934850

>>1934637
That site sucks. It keeps dropping the connection and it's slow as fuck.
Good attempt OP, next time provide us with a decent site.

I was being honest. I feel like doing the word a day Merriam-Webster thing.

There were a bunch of words I was familiar with, but couldn't define correctly, so I left them unchecked.

>>1934852

Yeah, it was slow as hell.

21,500 words and non-native.
Pretty good, I think.

22,1K

Would you say that's ok for a non-native speaker? Also, I swear there were words I've never seen ANYWHERE.

22200 and i'm a native speaker

what am i doing with my life? ;_;

>>1934879

I know that feel.

The worst thing is I do actually read decent stuff and I make sure I look up unfamiliar words.

3,340 and i'm not native, not good

this one is mostly bullshit. take toefl or ielts

12,000

not native but I feel sad anyway, I thought I was much better

>>1934637
I got 12k words and I ain't even mad. English is my 6th language.

>>1935032
I got 8.5 out of 9 in IELTS (Listening, Reading, Writing & Speaking). ^____^

German here,
Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be:
14,100
words

>>1935032
Made a TOEFL in Germany, 98%.

Needed 81 for university lol. Needed to take it cause I didn't choose English in high school.

>31,500
Eh... There were a lot of words that were familiar to me, but which I've always just taken in context so I don't know their exact meanings. Oh well.

30,700, but I think it's a bit artificially high.

>>1935055
>Made a TOEFL in Germany
>Made a TOEFL
>Made
>mfw.

Go and buy a English textbook, you filthy German. The correct form is ''Took a TOEFL test in Germany''.

27k

I'm 21 and I think I've got some way to go. I haven't read in quite a while.

Fucking vidya, rots the mind...

>>1935081
You speak another language yourself there, buddy?

http://testyourvocab.com/?r=80271

26,800 words. I feel like I've been wasting my life and becoming dumber.

28 K

Decidely average! Though I'd argue alot of those words fall into an older English vernacular than is relevent, and many of the terms are borrowed from other languages - Leitmotive, for example.

33,700

But I'd like to know more, damn it!

I would assume the test takes into account that a lot of the words ARE loan words and obscure words and that effects the calculation.

>>1935189

Don't think it does!

> mfw someone decides that by asking me if I could define sverte they can tell me my estimated English vocab!

>19,600
ungood feel peoples

25,700

26,800, no bullshit.

Well, I legitimately got 43,700

But that's because I knew all the words on the first list, all but 2 on the second list, and then a small handful on the last (prob missed 4?)

But I don't think this test is all that accurate, although I don't want to engage in any further floccinaucinihilipipfication of it.

>floccinaucinihilipipfication

Spell it right.

floccinaucinihilipilification

19,900

Fuck, I'm below average for my age.

37,800

...I don't believe this as i don't read much.
I'm going to take this again.

>mfw half of the more 'advanced' words are simply french words and I was partly raised in Marseille

fuck this tryhard bourgeois shit

43,700

native speaker

30,100

http://testyourvocab.com/?r=86282

37,500.

Wish I would have taken Latin.

18300

Confound it. It's the only language I know too. Such is the life of a mathfag.

about 25k
english is my only language i'm about to kill myself

16,700

Not native speaker.

fucking hell.. 20,500

22,200

Feels pretty bad. I should read more.

Knowing the definition of a word is surface-level. Once you can use the word gracefully in conversation, without strain, then it belongs to you. Until then it is useful only in understanding others, not communicating.

>>1935957
that's just a function of how the people around you talk and what you read

>>1935957
understanding is the most essential part of communicating

>>1935975
Knowing the definition of a word?

>>1935976
I doubt anyone would argue that.

20,900 words. English is my main language but not my first.

29 400. They say the median is about 27k.

36,500. I am content.

25,300

This test should give you definitions of all the words you missed imo. Would get much more out of it.

39,500
Above the 95th percentile which is as far as the listed scale goes, although I wouldn't place too much faith in the accuracy of this test.

32,200. I was feeling smug 'till I got here and people are scoring much higher. Now I feel stupid as shit. Thanks, /lit/.

42.7k, but I know some Latin and French so I understood the meanings of the words I've never even seen before in English.

hnngh?

>>1936042
You can't let me keep any pride at all, can you?

20,100

Meh, I don't give a shit.

21,900
feelsbadman.jpg

This test makes me feel bad.

This doesn't seem very accurate. I'm extremely confident in my vocabulary and I can't believe I on'y got 22,750. Oh well, a score only means as much as you take it for, I guess.

13000, not bad considering english is not my mother tonge
anyway im pretty sure this kind of test is pretty innacurate,

33600 LOL. I felt small seeing words I don't know. Oh well..

10 800. French native, so I'm okay with this. Expected better though.

19,300

Me native english speaker, me feel no good now

Three. Oh no.

20,200 - below average for my age group

This is double plus ungood. What the fuck.

23,600

Due to not being a native english speaker, I am quite okay with this.

28,200
words

28, 900

17,700.

I feel awful and compelled to pick up a book.

30,300

Not bad. Not particularly good, but not bad either. Decent for my age, and I have plenty of time to work on it.

25,330

Only 20
Not a native of an english speaking country.

Eh I feel can still improve.
There were a lot of words I had to leave unchecked that I felt I might know the meaning of if I had spend a few minutes mulling them over.

22,800
I have a feeling people lie, and not because my own score is below average. It should test you on a few supposedly known words at the end. I doubt the majority would pass.

>>1936661
Yeah I don't get why they didn't do that?

How and who the fuck would anyone know words such as funambulist(tightrope walker) or caitiff(archaic synonym for coward)? A lot of the words are jargon or archaic. This needs to be more empirically rigorous(sample size, valid word selection etc.) to have any application.

>>1936670
Going to have to second this. If the average is as high as this site suggests, we would hear these words more often.

>>1936692
22,800 scoring guy here again. I did the test again, but clicked on anything I've remotely heard of or sounded familiar and got 35,500. I guess most people did something halfway between being honest and lenient.

>>1936694
I see your point. Also, I stand by what I said earlier. Knowing a definition for a word isn't the same as internalizing a word well enough to communicate with it effortlessly and evocatively. If a word like bibulous doesn't spring to mind once in a while when discussion alcoholics, then you probably haven't internalized the word, even if you don't use it in everyday conversation.

25,500
>mfw I saw oneiromancy and was mildly ashamed that I know what it means

I'm 17, native speaker, also know Latin and German, read lots. Got 32.2k.

>>1936776
Do you go to a private school.

And yes, I am jelly.

>>1936787
Yes, yes I do. On a bursary, though - I'm not rich!

>>1936809
Thought so. Nobody knows Latin without going to a private school. I did some afterschool sessions in it, so I know a tiny bit. I found that even the silliest phrases sound very dramatic.

Ego barbam tondeo!

I did this test awhile ago and got about 25,000. I'm 18 and know A level standard German.

22k, not native.

26400, Native.

29k, and still in high school.
Not too bad, I guess

32,800. Disappointing. My vocabulary really hasn't improved since about the eighth grade, which just confirms what I thought then -- which is that I was a really smart eighth grader.

I'm kind of a dumb adult though, I guess.

>okay.jpg

27,800

Not bad I guess.

Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be:
31,100 words

Non-native speaker, 18

feelsgoodman.jpg

One of my majors being linguistics helps so much

Fuck yeah. Although I will admit that I knew none of the words on the last line.

29700
but i scored 800 on the gre
so i think you're all bullshitting slightly

>My vocabulary really hasn't improved since about the eighth grade, which just confirms what I thought then -- which is that I was a really smart eighth grader.

13 year olds in America know words like adumbrate, sobriquet, nostrum, svelte and tenebrous?
I thought the education system was supposed to be shit there.

27k, being honest and a non-native speaker. But I think it's bullshit anyway. I'm sure I don't actually know that much.