Name of number iiuc
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I donāt know about whacky. I used a mnemonic device I learned years ago when I memorized all 50 US States in alphabetical order for the students to show them they were being big babies about the vocab lists I gave them, lol
This time I just did it without wordsā¦just let the images flow.
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On second thought, I guess we could use all numbers as a noun? We are one. Thatās a Noun. And of course we are allowed to say āwe are tenā.
You are very creative lol
ā¦and is next to near impossible to read without a guide. 
I had to have a guide. I may have had more than one guide. I used stuff that I found online. And I still didnāt understand everything.
Itās brilliant, but I think itās too dark.* I think some things in there are too ā Iāll have to make up a word ā unnourishing. Thatās just my opinion.
*Howās that for an oxymoron?
Just go with Vineland.
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I hope to get around to it.
Itās written in human so far more accessible than GR.
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Thatās encouraging. 
Well, helicopter seems to contain its own internal divergence. Itās kind of a whangdoodle.
Practice definitely makes a difference. Second try was 91.42/97.77%.
Iām genuinely surprised that 90%+ of humanity canāt think of ten reasonably-different words.
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Are you though? 
Yeah, seriously. It says itās a ā2 to 4 minute testā. I took less than a minute. And Iām a long way from the most creative person on the planet (even in the narrow verbal sense).
Maybe some people donāt fully understand the nature of the test? Or perhaps the range of scores is actually quite small (compressed at the top end)?
EDIT: seems to be the latter. I filled it in using stuff on my desk. Score 78, āhigher than 49.43%ā. So thatās pretty much what Mr Average does, apparently.
Still quite surprised that anyone could do worse than ignoring what the instructions tell you not to do. I wonder if some people are filling in āsquirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel acorn treeā just to annoy the researchers.
It seems to me that actually getting to 0% requires superior creativity.
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86.9. I canāt for the life of me figure what the relationship between xylophone and dartboard is though?
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Did have a look at what people are posting, seems being a bit more specific avoids overlap, for instance āarsonā would be less encompassing than āfireā āravioliā is less specific than āfoodā
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Fingers? Hands?
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sees first and only page
types the most random things possible, with no time limit
Actually I just typed the first 10 nouns that came to mind, it still gave me a 77. First time I tried to put ācreativeā ones and the score was 50 something.
Itās a trap!
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This was a fun quiz. This was my attempt:
This was my second bite at the cherry. Water and antimacassar scored surprisingly high. Am I the only one who washes my antimacassar?
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It could mean youāre too sensible.
If you look at that grid that your test produces, it should give you some idea of the thinking behind this thing. I just now looked at my most recent grid, and I still donāt understand it perfectly, but it appears to show combinations that work or donāt work in terms of being ādivergent.ā I guess the idea is to come up with words that are least likely to belong in the same category as the other words. And thatās kind of a challenge for me.
Hereās an example of a pair that I āflunkedā:
I had cottonwood (a word that could mean any one of several kinds of trees, a fact which I didnāt know until tonight) and creosote (a substance which is derived from wood). Those two were ānon-divergentā enough to give me a pair of 71s.
Hereās an example of one that I guess I scored well on: cuff and creosote gave me a pair of 107s.
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