Recorded answers
2,242 recorded answers
How to approach it
Sweep disciplines one at a time instead of chasing synonyms for the clue in brackets, since breadth is what pays. The productive question is which standard figure in a given trade is habitually written with a percent sign and not as a fraction, a decimal or a count. Money, clinical research, sports analytics, farming, factory quality and social surveys each hold long tails of such measures, and the tail is where the points sit. Inside a chosen field, drill from the obvious headline number down to the specialist variants that practitioners quote and outsiders never mention. Jot candidates in bulk before judging them: the middle band is crowded, and only unusual entries lift a solid list into a great one.
Get a hint
Begin with the professional vocabularies, because money, clinical research, engineering and sports analytics each keep a stock of figures quoted with a percent sign rather than as a plain fraction.
A little more
Then turn to social and household statistics, where coverage, participation, uptake and completion are almost always given as a share of a clearly defined population.
One step further
Finally probe narrow technical corners, where one specialised ratio, loss or content figure is second nature inside a trade and practically unknown beyond it.
Reveal answers 2,242
- Land value taxDeep Cut85points
- Landfill diversion rateDeep Cut85points
- Landfilled waste percentageDeep Cut85points
- Lapse rate (insurance)Deep Cut85points
- Late feeDeep Cut85points
- Launch percentageDeep Cut85points
- Layoff rateDeep Cut85points
- Lead contentDeep Cut85points
- Learning povertyDeep Cut85points
- Leave loadingDeep Cut85points
- Left without being seen rateDeep Cut85points
- Left-on-base percentageDeep Cut85points
- Left/right power balanceDeep Cut85points
- LIBORDeep Cut85points
- Life stealDeep Cut85points
- Lifetime riskDeep Cut85points
- Lifetime risk of maternal deathDeep Cut85points
- LiftDeep Cut85points
- Light blockingDeep Cut85points
- Light reflectance valueDeep Cut85points
- Light sleep percentageDeep Cut85points
- LightnessDeep Cut85points
- Limb salvage rateDeep Cut85points
- Limb symmetry indexDeep Cut85points
- Lime finenessDeep Cut85points
- Limiting oxygen indexDeep Cut85points
- Line-drive rateDeep Cut85points
- LinearityDeep Cut85points
- Lineout success rateDeep Cut85points
- Linkage to care rateDeep Cut85points
- Liquid limitDeep Cut85points
- Liquidation thresholdDeep Cut85points
- Liquidity coverage ratioDeep Cut85points
- Liquidity premiumDeep Cut85points
- Liquidity ratioDeep Cut85points
- Litigation win rateDeep Cut85points
- LivabilityDeep Cut85points
- Live crown ratioDeep Cut85points
- Live release rateDeep Cut85points
- Liver fat percentageDeep Cut85points
- Livestock mortality rateDeep Cut85points
- Livestock shrinkDeep Cut85points
- Load factorDeep Cut85points
- Load factor (commercial real estate)Deep Cut85points
- Loan approval rateDeep Cut85points
- Loan constantDeep Cut85points
- Loan growthDeep Cut85points
- Loan loss provision ratioDeep Cut85points
- Loan repayment rateDeep Cut85points
- Loan-to-costDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Points fall as more players choose the same entry, so the reveal reads as a map of consensus rather than a test of knowledge. Broad, instantly reachable measures sit at the bottom of the top band: 300 recorded answers earned 60 points, meaning plenty of people converged on the same handful of headline figures. A vast middle tier of 1836 answers earned 85, and that list shows what separates it from the floor: precision inside a field rather than celebrity. Entries such as a mutual fund distribution charge (12b-1 fee, 85), a short-term euro area lending benchmark (€STR, 85) or a post-procedure death rate (30-day mortality, 85) are professional terms rather than general knowledge, yet still familiar enough to be shared by a few players. Abandonment rate (85) lands in the same tier for the same reason. The lone 100-point entry, Albedo, was matched by nobody else, which is the lesson: the summit belongs to one narrow technical reading of the prompt that no rival tried.