This quiz is timed. The clock starts when you type the first letter.
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Rules & what counts
Missing Vowels Exercises: Rules & What Counts
Missing Vowels shows the name of one gym exercise with every vowel removed. An underscore marks each vowel the name lost.
An exercise name is usually more than one word, so this quiz also marks the spaces. A dot sits in each gap between two words.
The mask works like this: the word WORKOUT shows as "W_RK__T", and TREADMILL shows as "TR__DM_LL".
A run lasts three minutes. Name as many exercises as you can in that time.
How to play
Read the name in the middle of the screen. Each underscore is one vowel and each dot is one space.
Type the name of the exercise. The game accepts the name as soon as you spell it. You do not press Enter.
You can type the spaces or leave them out. The game accepts both.
A correct name scores one point and draws the next exercise.
Select Skip to draw the next exercise. A skip costs no point, but it costs time.
The clock starts on your first keystroke, so you can read the first name first.
The bar under the header drains as the clock runs. It turns red for the last 20 seconds.
The game saves your progress. You can close the page and continue within one hour.
Select Review words on the result screen to see every exercise of the run and its answer.
What counts in this quiz
The pool holds 218 exercises in eight groups: barbell lifts, dumbbell and kettlebell work, bodyweight moves, machine and cable work, isolation moves, core, cardio and conditioning, and yoga and mobility.
Each exercise is in the pool under its common gym name, in one spelling. The muscle it trains is not part of the answer.
No two names in the pool share a pattern, so every puzzle has exactly one answer.
Each run deals 100 puzzles from the pool in a random order, and no pattern repeats inside one run. The highest score is 100.
Score is one point per exercise named. Skipped exercises score nothing.
The leaderboard ranks the number of exercises named in the three minutes.
What's not included, and why
The five vowels are A, E, I, O and U. Y is a consonant here, so the mask always shows a Y.
Only the exact spelling counts. The mask shows every consonant, so it tells you the letters the answer needs.
A hyphenated name is written as two words. The mask shows a dot where the hyphen goes, and the game accepts the name with the hyphen, with a space or with neither.
A name that needs an apostrophe is not in the pool. The mask can hold letters and spaces only, so the game leaves such a name out instead of misspelling it.
British spellings, as on the rest of the site.
Capital letters do not matter.
Good to know
The word GYM has no vowel at all, so it could never be a puzzle in this game.
The shortest puzzle in the pool has three letters and keeps two of them.
The longest pattern in the pool has 22 characters, spaces included. The longest single word has 14 letters.
Consonants carry most of the information in written English. That is why you can still read a name with no vowels at all.