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NYT Copy Edit Quiz 9

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 5:13 am
by ex-khobar Andy
I've posted this a couple of times before when I happened to notice it.

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Score
You took 16 tries to complete the quiz.

Over all, you did better than 87 percent of Times readers. The median score on this quiz is 23.

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Re: NYT Copy Edit Quiz 9

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 6:24 am
by Econoline
15 tries, but I went very slowly. Only one item took me more than one try, but several required a fair amount of thought.

Re: NYT Copy Edit Quiz 9

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 1:27 pm
by Long Run
Is part of the difficulty that they choose poorly written thoughts? You want to re-write the whole thing so it makes sense and is clear, but the editor is hiding one little style blip in the mess.