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
- indie bolivianoDeep Cut85points
- indie campechanoDeep Cut85points
- indie canarioDeep Cut85points
- indie cantabriaDeep Cut85points
- indie catalaDeep Cut85points
- indie catrachoDeep Cut85points
- indie cordobaDeep Cut85points
- indie cristaoDeep Cut85points
- indie curitibanoDeep Cut85points
- indie dream popDeep Cut85points
- indie electronicaDeep Cut85points
- indie electropopDeep Cut85points
- indie emoDeep Cut85points
- indie emo rockDeep Cut85points
- indie extremenaDeep Cut85points
- indie folk argentinoDeep Cut85points
- indie folk italianoDeep Cut85points
- indie fuzzpopDeep Cut85points
- indie game soundtrackDeep Cut85points
- indie garage rockDeep Cut85points
- indie hidalguenseDeep Cut85points
- indie hidrocalidoDeep Cut85points
- indie jazzDeep Cut85points
- indie liguriaDeep Cut85points
- indie michoacanoDeep Cut85points
- indie napoletanoDeep Cut85points
- indie nicaDeep Cut85points
- indie nordeste argentinoDeep Cut85points
- indie paraenseDeep Cut85points
- indie platenseDeep Cut85points
- indie poblanoDeep Cut85points
- indie pop rapDeep Cut85points
- indie pop rockDeep Cut85points
- indie poptimismDeep Cut85points
- indie psych-popDeep Cut85points
- indie psychedelic rockDeep Cut85points
- indie quebecoisDeep Cut85points
- indie queretanoDeep Cut85points
- indie r&bDeep Cut85points
- indie rock colombianoDeep Cut85points
- indie rock italianoDeep Cut85points
- indie rock mexicanoDeep Cut85points
- indie rock peruanoDeep Cut85points
- indie rockismDeep Cut85points
- indie salvadorenoDeep Cut85points
- indie shoegazeDeep Cut85points
- indie sicilianoDeep Cut85points
- indie soulDeep Cut85points
- indie sudcalifornianoDeep Cut85points
- indie surfDeep 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.