Can you name the elements of the periodic table for every letter in the alphabet in less than a minute?

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Element per Letter Quiz

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Created by: Perplexity -
Contributed: January 4th, 2010
Published: May 13th, 2010
Category: Science
Plays: 91,735

Tags: Alphabet Quizzes, Letter Quizzes, Chemistry Quizzes, Elements Quizzes, Periodic Table

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	Sally:	May 13th, 2010 at 16:40 GMT	0 points
	I fail at science.

	alleyt1989:	May 13th, 2010 at 16:43 GMT	-3 points
	Gaaa damn you F, L and X

	HelloPossum:	May 13th, 2010 at 16:43 GMT	19 points
	It's "praseodymium" and "ununoctium".

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	Commodore:	May 13th, 2010 at 16:58 GMT	16 points
	Ah, it's always the Krypton that gets me. Don't know why...

	Cryptus:	May 13th, 2010 at 17:23 GMT	7 points
	Is it worrying that I thought of osmium rather than oxygen for O? And would have typed protactinium for P had I not run out of time?

	mavrxboy2:	May 13th, 2010 at 17:26 GMT	-3 points
	first time around missed einsteinium, darmstadtium and... zinc

	TheReaver88:	May 13th, 2010 at 17:38 GMT	6 points
	I feel ya Cryptus. I had some normal answers, but I also used molybdenum, astatine, tantalum and rubidium. Lol at my scattered brain.

	monstro:	May 13th, 2010 at 17:40 GMT	2 points
	I could have used another minute. Still, a fun quiz!

	chikka2:	May 13th, 2010 at 17:41 GMT	9 points
	I started at the end of the alphabet and went backward since there are fewer and shorter-name elements for each letter than at the beginning. Still blew it: this is as much a speed-typing test as a test of elemental knowledge

	jdaster64:	May 13th, 2010 at 17:47 GMT	72 points
	All I could think of when it got to "K" was potassium.

	joeyostrander:	May 13th, 2010 at 17:58 GMT	-3 points
	i was on track to get 25/26, but there is no way i can type fast enough.

	Enydon_A:	May 13th, 2010 at 18:40 GMT	-3 points
	If you had gotten 25, you would have been doing something wrong. That was hard. I didn't get 2 in time...

	DonnyB:	May 13th, 2010 at 18:40 GMT	5 points
	Why did I spend the whole time trying to spell "Ununhexium?"

	ToughQuiz:	May 13th, 2010 at 18:42 GMT	25 points
	Is it just me, or do the longest/most-difficult-to-spell answers pop into your head first in these blitz quizzes? What other explanation is there when your answers include Copernicium, Ununpentium, Darmstadtium, and Gadolinium?

	OwenHerring:	May 13th, 2010 at 18:46 GMT	3 points
	I wasted several seconds because it didn't accept caesium for cesium.

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	zachisnotfunny:	May 13th, 2010 at 19:14 GMT	16 points
	I figured out this quiz was much easier to just go through elements randomly for the first 30 seconds and then see what letters remained.

	leppyfresh:	May 13th, 2010 at 19:30 GMT	2 points
	Good quiz.

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	Spikkle:	May 13th, 2010 at 19:40 GMT	6 points
	Forget Sporclium, where's Unobtanium?

	Blainie:	May 13th, 2010 at 19:41 GMT	5 points
	That was really quick! Could have done with another minute - but good quiz! :D

	Kinitawowi:	May 13th, 2010 at 20:02 GMT	8 points
	HelloPossum: It's out of 23 (no J, Q or W). ;-) And 23/23 first time (4 secs spare); not sure why Rutherfordium was the first R to hit me, but there you go.

	DoubleUnderscore:	May 13th, 2010 at 20:31 GMT	1 point
	Darmstadtium with 4 seconds left. Did some ridiculous ones though - ytterbium, lawrencium, molybdenum, tellurium to name but 5. I think that for most letters I came up with a much shorter one about a second after typing the long one.

	bumbles:	May 13th, 2010 at 21:00 GMT	4 points
	@hempick: Of course it shouldn't, wolfram isn't the chemical name - it's the ore from which tungsten is extracted. Very different thing.

	putt4dough21:	May 13th, 2010 at 21:03 GMT	0 points
	missed D the first time around.

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	Oddish:	May 13th, 2010 at 21:07 GMT	8 points
	Unlike the capitals of the world, THIS is a blitz-like quiz that works. Thank you.

	Havok3595:	May 13th, 2010 at 21:15 GMT	4 points
	Man, all I could think of for f was iron. I guess it's f for fail for me.

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	TubeChat:	May 13th, 2010 at 21:25 GMT	0 points
	needs another minute