UNIquelyCanadian said:I scored 64.29.
Is it fair to study the terms and names? I brought my score up by doing
some googling.
P.S. It's easy to be dishonest on the questions, like the "unique
unicycle" one. Is it unique or did you just add your own paint job and
stickers? Also, could building a unicycle mean putting a frame on a
wheelset?
With this in mind, if you get a false score now, in a few years time
when you actually reach that score it won't mean much.
Yes, it is very easy to cheat on that test. However, you're only
cheating yourself. It's more fun and rewarding to work and achieve a
goal than to falsely claim it.
Studying to learn the names of abbreviations and other terms would be
cheating. You learn the terms and names by being active in the
unicycling community and learning the history. You go to conventions,
talk with people, read materials at the conventions, read web sites,
etc. If your only connection with the unicycling community is reading
this newsgroup (forum) then you are missing much of the knowledge and
experiences that will allow you to answer those questions.
When I take the test I judge myself strictly. If I have to stretch
then I'm not yet ready to check that box. It makes it more fun and
more honest.
I have gone out and intentionally done things just to complete an
option on the test. For example I rode my unicycle on a Washington
State Ferry while it was traveling so I could claim that I rode my
unicycle on a moving vehicle. That's what makes the test fun.
A unicycle is not unique if you just add stickers or a new paint job.
A unique unicycle is one that is structurally unique and not just
superficially unique. Think of specialty and novelty unicycles.
Things like a giraffe with a scooter wheel, a coaster unicycle that you
made yourself, something that had to be built special. Claiming a
unique unicycle just because of the paint job is not fair to the people
who have genuinely unique unicycles. I have unicycles that are
supreficially unique. They would stand out in a pile of unicycles at a
convention. But none that I would consider unique in terms of the
unicycle fanatic test.
Same goes for building a unicycle. To build a unicycle means starting
with a pile of parts that don't look anything like a unicycle and
making a unicycle out of those parts. At a minimum it would mean
building the frame and building the wheel. Bonus points if you also
build the hub and other parts.
And anyone who manages to tie John Foss (other than a few well known
others) is not being honest with the scoring.
The test is biased towards people who go to conventions and are active
in the national or international organizations. That's just the way of
the test.
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