Recorded answers
6,432 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat the task as a timed recall sprint, not a hunt for one perfect label. Spend a minute noting every genre term you have ever seen attached to a record, from the broadest umbrella phrases down to the strangest compound you can picture, and hold back nothing at this stage. Prune afterwards, keeping only entries you can imagine sitting in the platform's catalogue. The productive route is combinatorial: take one style stem you trust and attach a region, a period, a format or an instrument, then judge which pairings read like genuine tags. Do not chase a brilliant rarity. The field is so wide and the scoring so flat that your first instinct carries as much weight as your twentieth guess, so move fast.
Get a hint
Start with scale: the catalogue holds thousands of tags, so the skill being tested is recall under time pressure. Ask how many genre terms you could list in a minute without repeating yourself.
A little more
Study how most tags are built: a style root fused with a place, a decade, a tempo figure, a technology or an instrument. Once that pattern is visible, one remembered term turns into a dozen variants.
One step further
Then push toward the far edge of the list: hyphenated micro-labels, single descriptors that barely register as genres, and tags lifted wholesale from regional scenes on other continents.
Reveal answers 6,432
- cologne indieDeep Cut85points
- colombian black metalDeep Cut85points
- colombian death metalDeep Cut85points
- colombian electronicDeep Cut85points
- colombian hardcoreDeep Cut85points
- colombian hip hopDeep Cut85points
- colombian indieDeep Cut85points
- colombian popDeep Cut85points
- colombian rockDeep Cut85points
- color noiseDeep Cut85points
- colorado hardcoreDeep Cut85points
- columbus ohio indieDeep Cut85points
- combos nacionalesDeep Cut85points
- comediaDeep Cut85points
- comedie musicaleDeep Cut85points
- comedienneDeep Cut85points
- comedy rockDeep Cut85points
- comfy synthDeep Cut85points
- comicDeep Cut85points
- comic metalDeep Cut85points
- commonsDeep Cut85points
- complextroDeep Cut85points
- compositional ambientDeep Cut85points
- comptineDeep Cut85points
- comptine africaineDeep Cut85points
- concepcion indieDeep Cut85points
- concertinaDeep Cut85points
- concertoDeep Cut85points
- concurso de talentos argentinoDeep Cut85points
- congolese gospelDeep Cut85points
- connecticut hardcoreDeep Cut85points
- connecticut indieDeep Cut85points
- contemporary choirDeep Cut85points
- contemporary classical pianoDeep Cut85points
- contemporary gospelDeep Cut85points
- contemporary post-bopDeep Cut85points
- contemporary vocal jazzDeep Cut85points
- contra danceDeep Cut85points
- contrabassDeep Cut85points
- conventDeep Cut85points
- cook islands popDeep Cut85points
- coplaDeep Cut85points
- coptic hymnDeep Cut85points
- coral gospelDeep Cut85points
- cork indieDeep Cut85points
- cornetas y tamboresDeep Cut85points
- cornish folkDeep Cut85points
- cornwall indieDeep Cut85points
- corridos adictivosDeep Cut85points
- corridos alternativosDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The numbers tell a flattening story. Out of 6,431 recorded answers, 6,392 scored, and 5,962 of those sat on the same 85 points, one broad band that swallowed everything from bare one-word abstractions such as abstract to hyper-local hyphenates such as adelaide indie and technical oddities such as 8D and 432hz. Only 429 fell to 60, presumably entries the grader read as a weaker fit: a near miss, a variant spelling, or something it would not treat as a genre tag. Exactly one response, stomp and holler, reached 100. That solitary case carries the lesson. Normally the rarest legitimate pick pays best, since fewer players share the pool, but here the catalogue is so vast that rarity stopped carrying information. Obscurity bought nothing: accordion earned the same 85 as afro house angolano. Depth of recall was rewarded only up to the point of being right, and not a single point further.