Name a computing pioneer or famous computer scientist
How many answers can you give to “Name a computing pioneer or famous computer scientist”? OnlyClick knows 88 of them, and rewards the ones other people miss. Most people go straight for Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or Alan Turing, so those barely lift the rocket. It is a fairly short list: only 33 answers sit in the two rarest tiers, so reaching one takes real knowledge.
What you remember from school is what everyone remembers. The rare answers come from the back of the textbook. You will find it in stage 34, “Plug & Play”, of the Science mission. The first stages of every mission are free, and later stages come with the full mission.
PLAY ONLYCLICK FREEThe most common answers
EVERYONE- Bill Gates
- Steve Jobs
- Alan Turing
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Charles Babbage
- Ada Lovelace
- Linus Torvalds
- Steve Wozniak
- Grace Hopper
- Larry Page
- Sergey Brin
- John von Neumann
- George Boole
These are the 14 answers we rate as most common, out of the 88 we know. They score the least. The other 74, including every rare one, stay inside the game.
How the 88 answers are spread
| EVERYONE | 8 |
| THE CROWD | 6 |
| SOME | 22 |
| A FEW | 19 |
| ALMOST NOBODY | 28 |
| ONLY YOU | 5 |
The rarer your answer, the farther your rocket flies. Rarity is our own estimate of how few people would think of an answer. How to play.