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Fun! I got lucky:

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"Federal Information Processing Standards" to "Cuba"

Time: 38.630 Seconds

Number of links visited: 2

The path you took: [ "Federal Information Processing Standards", "List of FIPS country codes", "Cuba" ]

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Immediately searched by the string “countr” on the first page.

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> You can't use the browser find tool.

From the rules.

D’oh! Missed that.

I’m sure the number of links would have been the same, but it would take much longer…

Without using the browser find tool I suddenly realize it's nothing like how I usually use Wikipedia. I have to scan a lot differently to find what I'm looking for. I'm not sure if that's a positive or negative thing, since arguably using the find tool biases what we read toward what we want to see rather than something objectively true.

So you cheated. You are not allowed to use the browser find tool.

Nah, he just ran the any%.

If you're not cheating, you're not trying.

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