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#cognitiveTesting_General:reddit.com · channel c2_8mk

The chat channel attached to r/cognitiveTesting ran for 749 days before Reddit removed chat channels entirely. This is the surviving record: 294,910 messages from 1,874 people.

1 Nov 2023opened18 Nov 2025last message
749 days · 416.1 msg/day
294,910Messages
1,874People
5,212Images
6,695Reactions
13,383Replies
6,947Deleted

Every day the room was open

Activity in the final two weeks ran at 28% of the opening day.

Peak was 8,537 messages on 26 Mar 2024. Colour marks activity: solid is a busy day, grey is a quiet one.

1 Nov 202318 Nov 2025
busiest days middling quiet

What was actually being said

The room's own vocabulary

These are the words this channel used far more than the rest of the archive did — the in-jokes, names and shorthand that only make sense if you were in here. Median message length: 22 characters.

TermUses
iq7,925
quod2,322
lol7,497
it's4,942
test3,946
oh4,661
vci850
bellum935
i'm4,005
imbackground588
people4,929
mean3,371
MeasureValue
Median message length22
90th percentile65
Total words808,261
Messages asking a question8.2%

Messages by hour, UTC

When the room was awake

A 5.4 to 1 swing between the busiest and quietest hour — mostly one region, with a scattering elsewhere.

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Arrivals, departures and bans, by month

October is the crossover

October is the month it started losing people faster than it gained them.

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6,695 reactions

How the room responded

upvote
1,812
joy
1,809
care
1,293
wave
288
surprise
165
doge
131
scream
89
feels_good_man
74

15,589 stickers

And what it sent instead of words

snoo_feelsgoodman2,730snoo_shrug1,898snoo_trollface1,713snoo_thoughtful1,500snoo_joy1,437snoo_cry1,013snoo_facepalm863snoo_feelsbadman858snoo_smile588unknown356

Reddit's chat reaction and sticker sets were removed with the feature. These are preserved copies.

Who was in here

1,874 people passed through. A handful carried it.

The top poster sent 36,759 messages. Below them the curve collapses: 556 people posted once and never came back.

ParticipantMessagesShare
Quod_bellum mod36,75912.5%
Several-Bridge940234,36811.7%
okcomputer07014,7535.0%
New-Sun-5282 mod14,4114.9%
Conscious-Web-388911,7744.0%
--_Astral_--10,6923.6%
SirKashmoney mod8,8873.0%
Specialist_Sleep86487,0962.4%
imBackground7897,0712.4%
qwertyl1 mod5,9182.0%
[deleted]5,8802.0%
Grand_Bus_20255,2951.8%

Named here because you posted publicly in an open community channel. If you'd rather not be, ask us to remove you.

18 Nov 2025 · the end of the log

The last thing anyone said here

No announcement, no goodbye. The archive simply stops. Nobody in this conversation knew it was the last one.

AssociationDizzy1336??
AssociationDizzy13360
AssociationDizzy1336palindromes or -1111 -11 the next number would be 0 or 00
AssociationDizzy1336I swear he is going to same something like actually it’s ^4 /8 +12 easy pattern
Several-Bridge9402Those are incorrect.
AssociationDizzy1336You know it’s time for logical fallacies
AssociationDizzy1336This is all because I am female and females have higher verbal comprehension but solving puzzle intelligence
AssociationDizzy1336I am going to research this and come up with a cure I swear
Several-Bridge9402The numerical items I post are intended to befit those of an untimed, high-range test. High-range tests have more difficult items. A good amount of them are very difficult, measuring pattern recognition, that which is most closely connected – and by virtue of its sheer closeness could even be considered virtually identical – with intelligence. There are three main ability types, one of which is numerical. In attempting to solve such items, you are applying your g (general ability) in the numerical space. [The application of numerical g.]
redditWe’re making changes to Reddit Chat to simplify how people connect. As part of these efforts, public chat channels will sunset in mid-November across desktop, mobile web, and the Reddit apps. Learn more(https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/15012434519316-What-are-chat-channels)
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