Hello everyone!
I'm
arctanproject and I'm a long-time player, but relatively new quiz creator, so I'd like to take some time to introduce myself.
I'm a 24-year old from Toronto who's big on music. My favourite type of quiz to play is a lyrics quiz where you guess each and every single word in the song (e.g. like
this, and not
like this or
like this).
I've played through dozens of my favourite songs - as luck would have it, I'm a big fan of The Beatles and Taylor Swift, for which it seems like there's a quiz for every song.
My taste in music isn't too too diverse: classic rock, rock n' roll, arena rock, hair metal, moving into pop, pop rock, punk pop, and so on.
I'm a huge fan of these quizzes, and it's always a pleasant surprise to find a combination of a song that I like, that has a quiz, and that I have a reasonable chance of not embarrassing myself with the results. Over the past few months, whenever I search for a song and I find that there's no quiz, or the quiz is either poorly done or not in the format that I like, I've always thought, "This sucks, they didn't make a quiz for _____". It never really occurred to me that I'm part of they, and that I could be the solution.
So, I took it upon myself to play around with the quiz creator tool, and to come up with a system where I can churn out high-quality lyrics quizzes at a reasonably-fast rate.
By high quality, I'm referring to doing my due diligence around capitalization, punctuation, spelling (and alternate spellings), alternate answers for debatable words, more columns to reduce scrolling, and doing the little things like accepting "oh" for "whoa" that makes people not pull out their hair.
So far, I've contributed 17 quizzes, but I have a number in the pipeline, both already coded into Sporcle and saved onto my computer.
My most popular quiz to date is
Layla, but I'm happy to see my non-highlighted quizzes get plays because it means that somewhere out there, someone like me entered the song into the search bar, and hopefully found a fun, quality quiz that satisfied them for eight minutes or less.
If you have questions, comments, concerns, recommendations, or requests, please let me know! Like I said, I do have a number of songs in the pipeline, but I'm always happy to be introduced or re-introduced to a great song.
Thanks for reading!
Cheers,
arctanproject