Name a programming language

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25-second pick · +85

ALGOL Deep Cut

5 letters · 1 word · ~2s to type · 78 accepted answers on the sheet

Leave the textbook headline for later — it is usually Plankton. We would type ALGOL: Deep Cut, +85, 5 letters, about 2 seconds on a keyboard. Do not burn the 25 seconds on Java, JavaScript, or Python — those are Plankton. The trench answer is APL (+100), but only take it if you can spell it cold.

Trench spelling, only if you already know it: APL +100

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Hints

Hint 1. 78 accepted answers. A strong pick is a single word, about 5 letters.

Hint 2 — a solid, typeable answer

Assembly

Hint 3 — a rare answer

ALGOL · 85 pts

Best safe pick
ALGOL Deep Cut 85 pts

Ranked by rarity × how easy it is to type in 25 seconds. Too Clever answers are treated as risky.

Best rare answers

  • ALGOL 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Befunge 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Chef 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Crystal 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Emojicode 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Forth 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Groovy 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • HolyC 85 pts · Deep Cut

Strong alternatives

  • Assembly 60 pts
  • Bash 60 pts
  • BASIC 60 pts
  • Clojure 60 pts
  • COBOL 60 pts
  • Dart 60 pts
  • Elixir 60 pts
  • Erlang 60 pts

Avoid — Plankton

Everyone else will type these. Ten points is a surface skim.

  • Java 10
  • JavaScript 10
  • Python 10

Public accepted list

Same buckets the game published. We do not re-grade. The pick above is the plan; this block is the record.

Prompt 1 of 1

Name a programming language

● One in a Krillion · 1 ● Deep Cut · 34 ● Rare · 25 ● Schooler · 13 ● Too Clever · 2 ● Plankton · 3
One in a Krillion +100 1 answer — tap to reveal
  • APL +100
Deep Cut +85 34 answers — tap to reveal
  • ActionScript +85
  • ALGOL +85
  • Awk +85
  • Befunge +85
  • Chef +85
  • CoffeeScript +85
  • Crystal +85
  • D +85
  • Elm +85
  • Emojicode +85
  • Forth +85
  • Groovy +85
  • HolyC +85
  • Intercal +85
  • Logo +85
  • LOLCODE +85
  • Malbolge +85
  • Mojo +85
  • Nim +85
  • OCaml +85
  • Ook! +85
  • Piet +85
  • PostScript +85
  • Racket +85
  • Raku +85
  • Rockstar +85
  • SAS +85
  • Shakespeare +85
  • Simula +85
  • Solidity +85
  • Tcl +85
  • Unlambda +85
  • Velato +85
  • Zig +85
Rare +60 25 answers — tap to reveal
  • Ada +60
  • Assembly +60
  • Bash +60
  • BASIC +60
  • Clojure +60
  • COBOL +60
  • Dart +60
  • Elixir +60
  • Erlang +60
  • F# +60
  • Fortran +60
  • Haskell +60
  • Julia +60
  • Lisp +60
  • Lua +60
  • Objective-C +60
  • Pascal +60
  • Perl +60
  • PowerShell +60
  • Prolog +60
  • Scala +60
  • Scheme +60
  • Scratch +60
  • Smalltalk +60
  • Visual Basic +60
Schooler +30 13 answers — tap to reveal
  • C +30
  • C# +30
  • C++ +30
  • Go +30
  • Kotlin +30
  • MATLAB +30
  • PHP +30
  • R +30
  • Ruby +30
  • Rust +30
  • SQL +30
  • Swift +30
  • TypeScript +30
Too Clever +15 2 answers — tap to reveal
  • Brainfuck +15
  • Whitespace +15
Plankton +10 3 answers — tap to reveal
  • Java +10
  • JavaScript +10
  • Python +10