90% of Gen Z can't pass this quiz (Sporcle)

[@tombartelli6843]

NL thinking the capital I is an L twice without him or chat realizing is shocking

[@a2rhombus2]

Honestly capital i being identical to lowercase L in sans serif fonts is messed up and whoever made that decision should be retroactively fired

[@Lichzim]

@@a2rhombus2 agreed

[@eirikjormungandrson]

@@a2rhombus2 idk if it's just the psycho in me or not, but I read retroactively fired as radioactively fried

[@mrrp405]

@@eirikjormungandrson I’ll take either option

[@xetera]

truly the definition of taking an L

[@ballzymclronshaft]

16:39 something about him seeing numbah one hold up a number one and just hitting us with a number 9 got me so good

[@spoon3330]

I'm gen Z and learned cursive in year one of elementary school this man got me feeling like I was born in feudal England 😭

[@axellor9836]

everyone still learns this

[@lynxerax7011]

i mean NL wouldn't know it still gets taught, because logically it should not because it's even more damn useless now. Well, jokes on him

[@colehuston1333]

i learned it, had a chromebook for every class the year after, and then relearned it as an adult

[@jacksmith-vs4ct]

They definitely don't teach it where I live lol they actually stopped teaching it when I was in school in the late 90s I was like one of the last years that learned it.

[@boccci]

@@_gingerale_ yeah I think it acts as shortform more than anything. Handy for notes, if not often illegible in my case

[@hivekind9128]

absolutely losing it when nl was not able to figure out number 1 from kids next door when he is literally holding up the number one with his hand

[@Crim_5009]

EXACTLY

[@0Rookie0]

And here I was yelling "NIGEL" at my screen. "Oh, sorry. Only those who really know him use his real name, I suppose."

[@turnermarius4471]

I was about to bang my head, he isn't nerd enough. I haven't seen KND since 99, but still remember the show like i seen it yersterday.

[@brainbarz]

@@turnermarius4471the big pick!

[@MangroveLord]

He wouldn't have gotten it cause it's numbah 1

[@Ergoperidot]

NL will know 5000 pieces of trivia I don’t know and I still feel attacked when he doesn’t recognize Tool.

[@fleshrags]

Fellow ancom

[@hawxchampion523]

NL singing all the lyrics to the tune of the Macarena killed me

[@Whiskur]

Right? Somehow-? It worked. 😂

[@prawtism]

7:14 "L is looking into a mirror" lmaoo

[@Reeykz]

The fact that NL goes so hard on that chatter saying Moana only has 1 good song made me unreasonably happy. That movie is just so dang good, man, probably one of the best soundtracks of any Disney movie to date

[@vejmolajaromil1455]

I write in cursive but i've never seen like half of those capital letter written like that ( and in Europe its quite common to write in cursive even nowadays)

[@menderbug1]

I'm Swedish and almost never see it

[@schrodingerskatze4308]

The thing is that that is how my grandparents and maybe my parents learned to write it, but they made it easier to write and read as far as I know. And there are also a million other ways to write the letters, so it's not even surprising if you don't immediately recognise a single letter out of context even if you write in cursive.

[@ben6162]

@@schrodingerskatze4308 Ye. I read and write english cursive with ease, and I swear I have never seen that Q in my life. Which could be user error due to it being a very uncommon letter to see in capital. Like, sure, Quebec, and The Queen, but how likely are those to come up in casual U.S. cursive script?

[@MrRevillo]

In Austria we have Blockshrift (keyboard lettering), schreibschrift (similar to your cursive) and a kursiv (a "fancy cursive" style that is just mind-boggeling)

[@jazzygiabao5560]

In my main language, every single letter is cursive (send help)

[@lukesanford9026]

Walt Bisney is the hardest I've laughed in a very long time

[@rosiefay7283]

Disnep

[@mokelmoo3940]

I'm sure like 10 years from now I'll have absolutely no idea what kids now are watching but it still drives me insane how little he knows about the cartoons I grew up on.

[@VacantPsalm]

I'm weird, where my printing sucks, but I have really nice cursive because I like writing with fountain pens sometimes. If you think about how the letters should be, and then imagine what generations of people getting more and more lazy would turn it into, this actually makes sense. B is supposed to reach back and touch the bar before moving forward. S is supposed to have a swoop over and double back for the missing top part. R is supposed to double all the way back, but instead it just kind of goes down after the tip. Z... ok, people are having fun with that one. But sharpen it up and you can see what it was supposed to be, with a bonus bottom loop for whatever reason. That capital Q got me. Because I start lower down so it makes a full circle with a dash along the bottom.

[@VacantPsalm]

As for the girl who used a ruler to make all those Ts, I think she's actually in the right. When you have two Ts in a row, you totally make two Ls and cross them both with one line. In cursive you write out the full word, then go back and dot the Is and cross the Ts. Of course you're going to cross two adjacent Ts with one line. So why not cross a fuck load of Ts with one line?

[@rosiefay7283]

This is a peculiar USA thing. "Cursive" just means what we used to call "joined-up" writing. It contrasts with "printing" (each character separate). "Cursive" doesn't denote particular letter shapes. And some of those in this video are peculiar USA varieties.

[@Paradockzz]

cursive absolutely does denote particular letter shapes, and it seems weird for you to write that off as some obscure thing. it'd be more accurate to say that "script" doesn't denote particular letter shapes, it's just joined-up writing.

[@THECALLOF241]

@@Paradockzz Tbf you're both right, cursive is any form of writing where you flow from one letter to the other but there are also specific cursive alphabets which have specific shapes.

[@josiek7589]

1. he's canadian. 2. yes, north america uses something called the palmer method to write cursive

[@NotLegato]

we had a similar set of cursive letters in Finland in the early 2000s. not identical, but mainly the same. they were all specified, of course, with exact shapes.

[@ZayneGoose]

The Macarena bit was so good

[@karatasoguzhan]

ngl fell off my chair

[@mellow3995]

New Isaac and Sporcle videos on the same day? I am pegging out of my gourdo!

[@vansradjmadho8365]

Stay pegged brother!

[@SocialCreditScore]

31:55 that puppet being named Vince was DEEP in the mind, there's no way I've seen that Muppet in at least 20 years.

[@ansel569]

*character holding up one finger* this has gotta be number 9

[@SamuraiPipotchi]

The story about your friend reminds me what I did during cursive writing practice. We had to fill a half page with the letter a - as a joke, I drew one big a. Was going to erase it, but got caught first.

[@nyansugoi]

NL getting stunlocked by Gangster's Paradise was understandable at first but a little painful towards the end

[@aiellamori]

Bro, right off the bat, this dude couldn't figure out the capital Z. I didn't use cursive since like 3rd grade and I still remembered

[@tiagorafael3788]

Here in Portugal we still learn cursive in first grade and the letters we use are much more understandable than the ones you use, some of those are just too complicated. If you combined that letters with the french language then I know a lot of people would pass out due too the extreme severity of the situation

[@samsukeandstuff6655]

The disrespect to Francesca is almost unsubscribable.

[@ChalkPopsicle]

NL I am begging you to watch Over the Garden Wall with your family. Maybe not for a couple of years since it’s a bit…dark. But it’s incredibly aesthetic and weirdly comforting. And I think you would really like the way it ends. Unexpectedly pog conclusion to the hero’s journey.

[@joewilson3393]

In the 90's my teacher in 5th grade teacher took me aside and said "Joe, I can't read your cursive. Please print from now on." I have never written cursive ever again, and my signature is a specific squiggle I use.

[@joshuniacke2442]

Loving the ambiance of someone drilling behind this video

[@Wolvaroo]

I've spent most of my adult life questioning if the cursive I was taught was legit or just how my grade 4 teacher decided it should be. Thank you for this quiz setting my mind at ease. Except that 'Q' wtf is that?

[@Wolvaroo]

Also that bit about being a fast typer but not using the home row hits hard for me.

[@TurtleMountain]

@@Wolvaroo same dude ain't no way i'm unlearning years of muscle memory. its not the right way but it still works.

[@dragoneer121]

depending on where you learnt to write it could be a different way to write

[@Chooopy]

Numbah 1: holding up a number 1 NL: idk number 9? number 7? pass.

[@ajx4]

random lady: "its hard cause I only like the stuff with just him on it" nl: "ok thats cool and all, but my child and I will be leaving now"

[@Doomguydoesit]

+Q I guess

[@Nofxthepirate]

YOOOO I fucking failed my 9th grade typing class because the tight ass teacher wanted me to use the home row but I'm disabled and I kinda have to just go freeform in order to type fast, but I'm really slow if I type the "correct"way. I retook the class the next year with the cool typing teacher and got an A typing my own way at 80 wpm.

[@ianbassham2506]

Please have the clip of NL saying “number 7” when the character is holding up a one be in the next NL funniest moments

[@afriendofafriend5766]

Passed the cursive quiz. Thanks grandma, I appreciate your letters. Even though they're in cursive.

[@flogchamp9530]

bruh a teacher failing someone who types 110 wpm for not using home row is literally thinking someone's doing something wrong because they're that much better than you.

[@obviouslyanonymous]

"Xenon - this dude's just an element??" Have you ever heard of... Iron Man?

[@NinaNinaM24]

Madonna is a bit underappreciated by the general public nowadays, she's got an incredible oeuvre

[@BigBigBigJeff]

People forget the complete chokehold she had on 90's culture

[@Biggest_Of_Birds]

dude i love that scene in breaking bad when xabi alonso shows up BatChest

[@austinfletchermusic]

Hnnnnggg, Colonel! I've never seen someone this 90s-pilled in my life!

[@christiangonzalez6945]

the word "minimum" its one of my favorites on both Copperplate and simple Cursive

[@Leehawkeyboy]

Aaah the rumors of Sporcles demise weren't true after... Wait... Wrong video. My bad.

[@verb833]

44:38 was not expecting a Dan Carlin impression

[@sdtfyuty9424]

Balthazar is also the villain in the Sorcerer’s Apprentice

[@Alt_Account_420]

Walter Business got me so good

[@arciks11]

I was taught cursive here in Europe and I still don't recognize some of those. Also what madman came up with that uppercase S.

[@schrodingerskatze4308]

I think the problem is that that is the old way of writing cursive how my grandparents learned it, but not what you would do today. My cursive writing looks almost completely different than that. My grandparents are literally the only people I know who have a handwriting anywhere close to this.

[@dustyb58]

It wasn;t until earlier this year that I realized Hootie and the Blowfish were singing about THE MIAMI DOLPHINS

[@josher-ch6sf]

🤯

[@AHMAaAD1210]

English is my second language and I didn't care about learning how to read cursive until I became a pharmacist, I don't know how many people suffered because of my dumb ass still reading it as JAM A MAN OF FORTUNE.

[@LaserStorm117]

Cursive is dead? Thank the gods. Never thought I would see the day.

[@Fachewachewa]

Based TWD quiz maker who included Kevin Caroll's character

[@TheWheatless]

16:39 NL: This one’s number 9 or something Numbah 1:☝️

[@ajaxorion]

He has a whole minute long rant about how new generations don't learn cursive and two minutes in he is talking about how cursive is stupid

[@ansel569]

the first part was making fun of boomers

[@KveruLars]

Man, KZbin teased me. Thought it was a new Sporcle-upload, but this is from 2 years ago. Love the current content, but I miss Sporcle a lot!

[@a2rhombus2]

Bronies have been called out. I like to imagine I was one of the ones he saw back in 2013 lmao

[@sweetandsaltyminx7310]

I think I was among the last to learn cursive in elementary school (born 97), and I hated it because I have difficulty writing generally and felt so vindicated when I NEVER used it again.

[@lynxerax7011]

I learned cursive in elementary school and I was born in 2001 (this was in the netherlands, it probably differs from country to country). I didn't even get typing classes lol, guess which skill has been more useful. Though i may also have been one of the last, i have never really thought about it

[@julysolchenberger5790]

@@lynxerax7011 also born in 2001 and learned cursive in elementary school. I am from florida.

[@sweetandsaltyminx7310]

@@julysolchenberger5790 That's interesting. I didn't see a lot of kids younger than me talking about it, so I maybe just assumed? Crazy.

[@julysolchenberger5790]

@@sweetandsaltyminx7310 i think 2001- 2002 was the cut off. My friend a few years younger never learned

[@slientkillli7433]

The gravity falls disrespecter has logged on.

[@marcusolsson9541]

I took a computer class as a extracurricular thing in 7th and 9th grade, we were supposed to learn how to make websites, blogs and stuff like that. 3 weeks in when everyone had stopped listening the teacher gave up and we spent the rest of the year either looking at youtube, movies/seriers or straight up having lans playing cs or halo for the entire lesson

[@coreywhitaker883]

Q is the one nobody can remember because it makes literally no sense the rest are pretty spot on.

[@hoopla1950]

Numbah 1 was literally holding up one finger and you guessed Number Seven

[@isakberggren9778]

Now that I'm in university I actually a little sad that I didn't learn to write cursive back in gradeschool

[@0Rookie0]

The most fun cursive letter is capital L. Fight me, but there's no contest.

[@MangroveLord]

Lower case f

[@livedandletdie]

TELL ME WHY ARE WE SO BLIND TO SEE, THAT THE ONES WE HURT ARE YOU AND ME! That's the Refrain in Gangsta's Paradise. It's followed up by the Chorus... Been spending most our lives living in a Gangsta's paradise...

[@Awesomedude50]

@59:19 He sounds like an engine that won't turn over

[@vincentprom9265]

It's interesting NL says "Gen ZEE" but when Z is alone he says "ZED"

[@Maniz9]

That’s a good point.

[@GreenTea_98]

I say gen zee too and I'm english so I usually say zed. I think it's just bc the former sounds better as a whole

[@masterplusmargarita]

Moana is like Frozen - it DOES have one good song - they just play it like eight times with different lyrics. On second thought, it has Shiny, so make that two good songs.

[@lynxerax7011]

Not Gonna lie i died a little when NL got the legend of Korra wrong

[@MangroveLord]

F is my favourite letter to write in cursive

[@oops______]

To be fair thats the mostest psychotic way to write a Q

[@jenm1]

Mostest indeed

[@schrodingerskatze4308]

I don't anybody does that, it's not the cursive writing, it's the test that's stupid.

[@jimmyredd]

The Flash vs. The Slow got me good

[@Generalwolfy24]

My man’s called him Number 9 and Number 7 whiles he’s clearly holding up 1 finger signifying who he is 😅😂 don’t ever stop egg lord 😂

[@bobby43rocks]

i was taught cursive and i was born in 2000, but im pretty sure it was phased out because after 6th grade i was never told about it again. that being said, i did find myself taking notss in cursive during college

[@sablen1319]

In college professors got mad at me for using cursive

[@livedandletdie]

And that's the Easy Cursive.. If I wrote down the Alphabet in Cursive, NL wouldn't be able to know which is which if I did them out of order.

[@0AwesomeProductions0]

our mans mixed up gin and juice with nuttin but a g thang

[@Laurala_Lala]

Gen z here, we learned cursive all of 3rd grade, I remember most except mad weird ones

[@henryholsten8802]

Bit older person here, you will never need it except to read old peoples writing lol

[@cub_q]

I’m 17 and I remember learning and writing cursive in 4th grade and I can only recognize my name and the easy ones

[@DudokX]

holy shit 1st grade flashbacks, I remember filling out rows upon rows of the same letter in a notebook as a homework.

[@GilroyIronheart]

Ok, I remembered Poe's first name, but I was 100% SURE his full name was "Po Derek"

[@xtremegaming1232]

Bo Derek is an actress maybe thats the name you were thinking of

[@themostokayesthomecook1422]

the twista reference! NL is my spirit animal

[@Tristan-zt8tw]

“The Flash vs. The Slow” LOL!😂

[@MangroveLord]

It does happen with turtle

[@SomePeopleCallMe]

32:05 that's the Viet-Cong Muppet, Charlie, in the bottom left

[@simontellebrendmoe1341]

NL that intro is fire!

[@frog985-2]

I just rewatched breaking bad, and I forgot most of their names. lol

[@paulunga]

Haha, that movie quiz, though. 3 picks for each movie of those extremely popular movies?

[@SCOTTMCNEILL]

That's *Mister* Snuffleupagus!

[@masonsullivan4853]

Only reason cursive is still used is for signatures.

[@SKrecreat]

Cursive Q is fucked up here. We were always taught to close the loop so that it looks like an upside down cursive O. Like a little circle with diarrhea.

[@norlando18]

I was hoping for ki adi mundi in the Star Wars quiz

[@ara849]

I write in mostly cursive. I didn't like how Q looks it looks like a 2 so i changed it into a circle and have a line poke through it on bottom right. Also the capital doesn't match there to what I was taught to.

[@dustyb58]

oh man Crash Test Dummies is a band I never hear anyone ever say anything about ever. The maidens had other plans for the two knights They'd give them potions And make them see dreams and lights

[@Sheamu5]

I'm going to have to listen to shiny again

[@iConGOML]

Wait... you got an explanation as to why you needed cursive?

[@MangroveLord]

I just wasn't taught anything different

[@JPTQJR]

Joke's on you I'm a Gen Z that primarily writes in cursive. The only difference is that I complete the loop on Q and make G the large version of small g like intended.

[@dragoneer121]

1:57 I learnt an entirely different cursive font than this, I dont even recognise half the letters

[@smug_bedbug]

The eyelash comment broke me.

[@kyleking2676]

I write in cursive 50% of the time. Lowercase x and upper case D are the worst. Lowercase f and uppercase t are the best

[@PhiloticSymmetrist]

'Teaching' that 'system' of cursive writing is like formalizing an idiosyncrasy, I find it so infuriating; make it fast and make it sufficiently legible for the context, that's it, there are no other rules.

[@Vulture2k]

Weird, I learned some of the cursive differently. Funny enough all those he got wrong I also learned to write different.

[@JMoney615]

Is there a worse name than Isabelle to have to write in cursive?

[@asystole_]

More sporcle? let's gooooo

[@BlutigeTranen]

Duuuude, I'll put money on knowing who that Goofy lover is

[@matthewmorris-sp1xd]

I see Sporcle, I pog.

[@Eszik3]

NL sounding like Gilbert Gottfried in that intro

[@dreamacompton9629]

they mentioned you in the new west of loathing game