Name all 50: US states, from memory

The US States Game is a free typing speedrun: name all 50 US states from memory as fast as you can. Type a state, press Enter, and if you're right it turns green on the map. No multiple choice, no hints, no word bank.

Naming a handful of states is easy. Naming all 50 is the real test, because most people breeze through about 35 and then stall while the empty part of the map stares back at them. Which state you forget says a lot about which part of the country you think about least.

Sweep by region. Walk the map in your head: New England, the Mid-Atlantic, the South, the Midwest, the Mountain West, the Pacific coast. A systematic sweep beats random recall every time.

Count out the sets. Eight states start with M, four start with New, and there are two Carolinas, two Dakotas and two Virginias. If you've typed seven M states, you know one is still hiding.

Bank the short ones early. Ohio, Utah, Iowa, Texas and Idaho cost almost no typing time. Clear them fast and save your focus for the tricky ones.

Read the empty patches. The green shows which regions are done. When you stall, look at whatever is still cream. That's your reminder list.

Spell it out in full. The game wants complete names, so "North Dakota" works and "N Dakota" doesn't. Typos are the most common way to lose seconds.