• Introduction
• General Tips
• Exiting VinoQuiz
• Available Commands
• Helper Commands
• Changing Screen Text Size
• Zooming Images
• Sorting Tables
• Initial Login Screen
• Account Setup
• General Setup (Presets, Categories, Options, Look/Feel/Sound)
• Quiz Information Bar
• Elite User Club
• Statistics Display
• Iconifying VinoQuiz

VinoQuiz is a wine education tool, built as a quiz game. It covers topics in the area of Wine and Grapes, as well as Wine Regions, Wineries/Vineyards, Wine Quotes, Wine Classifications, Wine Personalities and much more.

Once the user logs in and starts the game, a quiz is displayed from which the user makes a selection and presses the Submit button. The answer is then evaluated and the result is displayed. User can then press the Next button to move to the next quiz.

The game provides immediate feedback about each answer and, when necessary, provides explanation and pictures or videos to further clarify the answer. Most quizzes are automatically generated from VinoQuiz's comprehensive wine information database. Therefore, there are nearly limitless set of quizzes and permutations available.

• Double tapping or clicking on the screen will allow you to change the font (text) size (you can try it now).
• Tap-and-holding on any of the main screen buttons (for at least one second) will display the tool tip help for that button. On a PC, a right-mouse-click on the button will do the same.

Depending on your preference and device or browser, there are different options to exit VinoQuiz:

• On Mobile devices that run VinoQuiz App version 5.1 or higher, the Leave button in the title menu presents you with two options:
  • Exit without having to re-login next time
  • Logout and go back to login screen
  Using Exit is the preferred way of exiting VinoQuiz, since you are automatically logged in the next time.
  
  Also, on all android devices (phones or tablets) that run VinoQuiz App version 5.1 or higher, using the "Back" ( or ) button will allow you to exit VinoQuiz after confirmation. As with the "Exit" button above, pressing the "Back" button is the preferred way of leaving VinoQuiz, since the next time you start VinoQuiz, it will use your credentials that were saved on your device to log you in, bypassing the Login screen. Apple devices do not have a "Back" button.
• All Browsers: If you accessed VinoQuiz (on any PC or mobile device) using a browser through the http://vinoquiz.us URL, your login credentials are saved and the next time you access VinoQuiz, you'd be logged in automatically.
  
  As with any other web page, you'd exit the VinoQuiz web page by closing the browser screen or tab.

On all the above devices, if you press the Leave button and then chose the Logout button, you'd be logged out and need to manually log in the next time. Use the Logout button only if you'd like to log in as a different user, or as a safety measure in case your device is used by multiple people. The following commands are available at different times:

Submit	Submit: Once one of the mutiple choice answers is selected, this button submits the answer for evauation. This button is only effective when "Quiz submit" is set to "Click to submit" in Setup. If "Quiz submit" is set to "Automatic", the answer will be automatically submitted (when selected) without the need to press the "Submit" button.
Simplify	Simplify: This button, when available, in a multiple choice quiz style, will remove (zap) one of the wrong answers, making it easier to pick the right answer. In case of Drag & Align (or Drag & Sort) quizzes, this button will change the border color of a row from the normal Blue color to Green to indicated that the row is in correct position or to Red to indicate that the row is in incorrect position in which case the row has to be moved until its border turns Green meaning it is now in correct position. In case of Drag and Drop words (fill-in-the-blanks) quizzes, this button will change the border color of a word from the normal Blue color to Red to indicate that the word is not a correct word to choose. Depending on the setting of Animate zapping (that can be set in the Setup screen), the incorrect choices may be just greyed out (with possible red borders), or be completely removed from the list of choices.
Back	Back: Like the browser back button, this button will return back to the previous screen.
Next	Next: This button will move to the next quiz screen.
Stats	Stats: After every 10 quizzes (this number can be changed through Setup screen), the Stats button is displayed. Pressing it allows the user to see how well the quiz run has gone. In addition, cumulative historical user statistics as well as ratings are displayed.
	This buton bypasses the current quiz and moves to the next quiz. This has no impact on quiz scores or statistics. Bypassed quizzes will not be shown again during current session, but may come back during future sessions. You can turn this button off or on from within the Setup screen.

These helper command buttons are available in the title area at all times:

	Leave: Allows logging out or exiting. On mobile devices that are running VinoQuiz App version 5.1 or higher, this button provides an exit option. Your login credentials are saved on your device and are used to log you in automatically the next time you use VinoQuiz, bypassing the login screen.
	About: Displays various information about the VinoQuiz software.
	Help: Displays this message.
	Email: Starts the email client, allowing the user to send comments to VinoQuiz. If used during a run, the ID of the displayed quiz is passed in the email for reference.
	Logout: Logs out the user and goes back to login screen. Good for logging out and coming back as a different user.
	Setup: Allows setting up the relative frequency of different category quizzes as well as other options. You can set up the type of quizzes that you would like to see more often. Other preferences are also available. See Setup below.
	Account Settings: This button allows changing user account information, such as username, password and user email. Demo user account settings cannot be changed and thus this button is not displayed for Demo user.

By default, VinoQuiz picks a text (font) size that is appropriate for your screen size. You can change the screen text size by double tapping (or double clicking) anywhere on the screen at any time and selecting one of the shown text (font) sizes from the dialogue box that appears.

You can also change text (font) sizes from the Setup screen.

If you have a device with a small screen size, we recommend using Normal or lower text size settings as larger text sizes may crowd the screen and in some cases impact the rendition of the quiz.

The selected size will persist througout current and future sessions. If you use multiple devices, like cellphones, tablets, or PC browsers, you can set the text (font) size for each independantly and VinoQuiz will remember your setting for each device.

You can try it right now. Double tap (double click) anywhere on this screen right now and see the pop up text size change screen.
When an image is displayed on the screen, touching or clicking the displayed image will normally zoom the image. You can try this with any of the images displayed here.
Often times, when the result of the quiz is displayed, it may contain a table. Whenever there is a table displayed, you can sort the table by one of its columns by clicking or touching the header of that column. Touching or clicking the same header again will reverse the sort order. In addition, the following commands are available on the initial screen:

	Login: Logs in a returning user.
	Register: Registers a new user by just asking the user to choose a login and a password.
	Reset Password: Allows resetting the password for forgotten passwords.
	Demo User: This start VinoQuiz logged in as a Demo user. Only a fixed set of quizzez are available to the Demo user. There are no historic performance data available for the Demo user. This is a temporary 'try out' login. You need to pick a personal login and register to take advantage of additional functionality and unlimited set of quizzez.
	Report Issues: Starts the email client, allowing the user to send email to VinoQuiz support.

In Account Setup page, you can change your account user name, email and password. The save is done one at a time. Meaning, after changing each of the user name, email or password, you need to press the corresponding Save button to save the changed value. You can also view your account information on this page.

The Back button leaves the page without saving anything.

The options available in Account Setup are:

• Change Username: Username must comply with the following rules: Username must only contain (a-z), (A-Z), underscore _ , numbers (0-9), and have 4 to 32 characters
• Change Email: New email must comply with the following rules: Email must be in the valid user@domain.name format.
• Change Password: New password must comply with the following rules: Password must be at least 7 characters, and have at least 2 of the following 3: a letter (A-Z or a-z), a number (0-9), or a special character like (~!@#$%^&_-).
• Purge historic quiz data allows you to purge and permanently delete your historic quiz data, on and before a specific date. Your other account data and preferences are not touched. This only impacts your quiz playing scores and data.
  
  Current session quiz data (i.e., the quizzes that you played since you logged in) are not deleted. So if you wish to delete everything, you must use the purge option just as you log in and before you answer any quizzes.
  
  This command requires a password confirmation. Yet care must be taken when using this feature as you may accidentally delete all your quiz data permanently and therefore lose your ranking.
• Activate account allows you to activate your account if you have not already done that. Activation is done through clicking on the link in the email that was sent to you during registration.
  
  If you have lost that email, this feature allows you to resend the activation email. The email is sent nearly instantly, but it may sometime be placed in your junk or spam folder by some of the email servers. Please double check those folders before sending activation email to yourself again.
• User Info provides various user and device information about your account.

In Setup screen, you can set your preferences for font (text) size, the frequency of various quiz types, quiz complexity, sound options (i.e., Mute levels), simplification (or zap) levels, old/new quiz mix percentages, and Statistics display frequencies.

You can set preferences by either using the Preset buttons or by manually setting different preferences.

In what follows, the use of preset buttons, quiz category sliders, and other quiz option pulldown menus are explained.


The Preset buttons allow you to quickly set quiz category preferences as follows:

Basic	This setting primarily focuses on wine and grape quizzes with modest difficulty.
Easy	This setting sets the sliders to lighter categories that are more appropriate for someone who just wants to have fun playing VinoQuiz. Some complex categories are nearly eliminated in this setting.
Default	This is the system wide default settings. It has a little bit of every quiz category, but more on the easier categories. In addition to quiz category sliders, it also resets other quiz and look and feel options to system wide defaults.
Expert	This setting emphasizes on more complex categories that are appropriate for experts who are serious about learning or challanging themselves on topics like wine, grapes, wine regions, wine classifications etc.
Torture	Use this setting if you like to torture yourself with hard quizzes from hard categories.
Region	Use this setting for quizzes that are primarily about wine regions and wineries around the world.
Same	This setting provides an equal mix of all quiz types.
Random	Every time you press the Random button, it sets the quiz categroies to some random settings. Use it if you like surprises.
Reset	Resets the settings to the previously saved values.

There are multiple sliders to set the category or type of quizzes that you would like to see. By sliding the slider button to right and left for each quiz category, you can increase or decrease the frequency of seeing the quizzes of that type. The percentages shown next to each category show the percentage of times that a quiz of that type is displayed.

As you gain expertise, VinoQuiz may automatically expand the quiz categories to include all categories with equal percentages. Eventhough your saved quiz category percentages would not change, the current working quiz categories for the current session may expand to include all categories with equal percentages.

The quiz type frequencies that can be set manually on the sliders are:

Wines/Grapes:	These are quizzes related to various wines and grapes that are used to make them.
Wine Labels:	This quiz type shows a wine bottle label (with the winery name erased) and asks you to identify it.
Wine Maps:	This quiz type shows the map of a wine region and asks you to identify the wine region.
Wine Lingo:	This quiz type shows a word or a terminology related to wine or vine and asks you to pick the meaning of it.
Wine People:	This quiz type shows a quick bio of a wine personality and asks you to identify the person.
Regions:	This quiz type provides the name of a wine region and asks you to identify its origin or country.
Quotations:	This quiz type shows a famous wine quotation, and asks you to identify the origin.
Wine Ranks:	This is generally about ranking (e.g., first growth, grand cru, etc.) of various Bordeaux, Burgundy, Beaujolais and Champagne wines.
Vineyards:	This quiz type shows the name of a vineyard and asks you to identify its region.
Synonyms:	This quiz type taps into the most complete grape sysnonyms database and ask you to identify a grape sysnonym for a given name. This database includes grape regional names from all over the world and can get really complicated. These are hard quizzes and are only shown if you set difficulty levels to level "IV" or "V".
Wine Vintages:	This quiz type teaches about "Wine Vintages" for key wines from across the world. It separates the vintages to two main groups, "Excellent", for vintages that have been rated very high, and "Poor" for vintages that have been rated very low. It ignores the middle ground so that it can create separation between the two groups and avoid confusion. Use this if you want to learn about vintages to buy, or more importantly, vintages to avoid. These are mostly hard quizzes and are only shown if you set difficulty levels to level "IV" or "V".
General Info:	This catches all other quizzes that are not part of the above categories.

You can also manually set up the following parameters using the pulldown menus. When you change an option, its border turns Red indicating that the option is changed but not yet saved. When you save the setup, the red border goes away. Some options (such as font family or size) are instantly saved and changing their value does not change their border color.

• Quiz difficulty level:
  Quizzes have difficulties from Easy to Killer. Quiz difficulty level settings are categorized as follows and determine the quiz difficulties you are likely to get:
  
  

  Diffi­culty Level Set­tings	Quiz Difficulties
  	Easy ✸	Moderate ✸✸	Medium ✸✸✸	Hard ✸✸✸✸	Killer ✸✸✸✸✸
  I
  II
  III
  IV
  V

  
  For example, when you set your quiz difficulty level to III through Setup, you are more likely to get quizzes of difficulty Easy, Moderate and Medium.
  
  As you gain expertise, VinoQuiz may automatically increase quiz difficulty levels.
  
  The quiz difficulty level is shown on the bottom right of the screen as I (Easy), II (Easy and Moderate), III (Easy to Medium), IV (Medium to Killer) or V (All difficulties).
• Max Simplify, or Max Zaps:
  This parameter can be set from 0 (i.e., "No zaps") to 3, or to "Max possible". This will allow you to zap as many bad answers from the multiple answer choices to make the selection list smaller and easier. Regardless of this value, one cannot zap beyond 2 remaining answers (otherwise, it won't be much of a quiz). For example, in a multiple choice quiz with 5 answers, you can zap up to 3 bad answers. In a quiz with 3 choices, you can zap only one bad answer even if "Max Simplify" is set to 2 or 3.
  
  This value is shown on the bottom right of the main screen as Zx, where x is max number of zaps allowed. For "Max possible" option, the value "9" is shown.
• Quiz Mix & Redo Priority:
  These two options work together and define how quizzes are selected. When a quiz is presented to the user, there are four possibilities:
  • Quiz is "New", which means it was not seen before,
  • Quiz is a "Redo", which means it is a quiz that was answered incorrectly before and now it is presented again for a chance to redo, or,
  • Quiz is "Old", which means it was an older quiz that was seen before and answered correctly or incorrectly, or,
  • Quiz is just "Any" quiz which means it is either one of the above or any other quiz that was seen before.
  The Quiz Mix option will let you set how often you see New or Redo quizzes vs. Old or Any quizzes.
  
  Among the New and Redo quizzes, the Redo Priority option will let you set how often the quiz should be a Redo.
  
  Setting Redo Priority to "More Redo" is the fastest way you can improve your score as it brings up quizzes that were answered incorrectly before. By correctly answering a redo quiz, you will increases the number of correct answers you have made but do not change the total number of unique quizzes you have seen which results in a higher uptick in your score.
  
  Setting Quiz Mix to a higher value and Redo Priority to "More New" value will let you see more new quizzes.
  
  If you just want to practice and do not care about whether the quiz is New or Redo or any other kind, you can just leave the Quiz Mix option on an average setting and set the Redo Priority to "Equal New/Redo".
  
  When the quiz is displayed, the information bar on the bottom of the screen shows whether the quiz is New, Redo, Old, or Any other type, by writing it under the Quiz ID column. The Quiz Mix value is shown on the bottom right of the information bar as Nx% where x indicates the percentage of New/Redo quizzes. (Show me)
  
  Based on some internal algorithms, VinoQuiz may automatically change the working quiz mix levels by reshuffling old and new quizzes.
  
  The Quiz Mix value is shown on the bottom right of the main screen as Nx%, where x is the percentage of New/Redo quizzes, e.g., N40%.
• Quiz Region:
  This option defines your preference about the regions of the world that the quiz covers. Major wine regions are generally divided into two groups:
  
  

  Old World wine regions	New World wine regions
  France	United States
  Italy	Australia
  Spain	New Zealand
  Germany	South Africa
  Portugal	Chile
  Austria	Argentina
  Greece	Canada
  Hungary	Uruguay
  Romania	Mexico

  Using the Quiz region option you can have more quizzes on the regional area that you like. Regardless of this setting, one still can get quizzes from other regional areas, however the quizzes are more heavily biased towards the selected region.
  
  Default is Old World wine regions. Based on some internal algorithms, as you gain expertise, VinoQuiz may change this option to cover both Old and New Worlds, regardless of its original setting.
• Display Stats:
  While you can always display the quiz statistics after answering a quiz by pressing the small Stats button on the lower right corner, VinoQuiz will also automatically display the statistics after every 10 quizzes. You can change this frequency using the Display Stats option.
• Quiz submit:
  Normally, in a multiple choice quiz, you would select one of the answers and press the Submit button to see the results. When the Quiz submit option is set to "Automatic", the answer is automatically submitted when one of the multiple choice options is chosen and therefore there is no need to press the Submit button. This helps speed up the game.
• Quiz Bypass:
  This option turns the Quiz Bypass button on or off. The Quiz Bypass button is used to bypass the displayed quiz and go to the next one. Bypassing a quiz has no impact on quiz scores or statistics. Bypassed quizzes will not be shown again during current session, but may come back during future sessions.

You can also manually set up the following options that change the display or sound effects. When you change an option, its border turns Red indicating that the option is changed but not yet saved. When you save the setup, the red border goes away. Some options (such as font family or size) are instantly saved and changing their value does not change their border color.

• Font Size: VinoQuiz automatically sets the font (text) size based on the size of the screen. However, you can choose to increase or decrease the default size using this option. See also Changing Text Size. (Show me)
  
  The font size change is per device. So if you use multiple devices, you can have different font sizes for different devices.
  
  
• Font Family: You can change the font (text) family type using this option. The default font family is "veranda". This option allows you to use other font types like "cursive", "monospace" or "serif". Note that your device or system may not have all these fonts and, if not, it may choose another font to render the screen. Following is how your device or system renders different font types:
  
  Verdana font type:
  

  THE QUICK BROWN FOX
  JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG
  the quick brown fox
  jumps over the lazy dog
  Italic, Bold, 0123456789, â ê î ô û ŵ ŷ ä ë ï ö ü ẅ ÿ à è ì ò ù ẁ ỳ á é í ó ú ẃ ý

  Sans-serif font type:
  

  THE QUICK BROWN FOX
  JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG
  the quick brown fox
  jumps over the lazy dog
  Italic, Bold, 0123456789, â ê î ô û ŵ ŷ ä ë ï ö ü ẅ ÿ à è ì ò ù ẁ ỳ á é í ó ú ẃ ý

  Serif font type:
  

  THE QUICK BROWN FOX
  JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG
  the quick brown fox
  jumps over the lazy dog
  Italic, Bold, 0123456789, â ê î ô û ŵ ŷ ä ë ï ö ü ẅ ÿ à è ì ò ù ẁ ỳ á é í ó ú ẃ ý

  Arial font type:
  

  THE QUICK BROWN FOX
  JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG
  the quick brown fox
  jumps over the lazy dog
  Italic, Bold, 0123456789, â ê î ô û ŵ ŷ ä ë ï ö ü ẅ ÿ à è ì ò ù ẁ ỳ á é í ó ú ẃ ý

  Monospace font type:
  

  THE QUICK BROWN FOX
  JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG
  the quick brown fox
  jumps over the lazy dog
  Italic, Bold, 0123456789, â ê î ô û ŵ ŷ ä ë ï ö ü ẅ ÿ à è ì ò ù ẁ ỳ á é í ó ú ẃ ý

  Cursive font type:
  

  THE QUICK BROWN FOX
  JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG
  the quick brown fox
  jumps over the lazy dog
  Italic, Bold, 0123456789, â ê î ô û ŵ ŷ ä ë ï ö ü ẅ ÿ à è ì ò ù ẁ ỳ á é í ó ú ẃ ý

  Note that VinoQuiz is optimized for variable space font types and not "monospace" font type. The "monospace" font type takes up more space and may render the screen differently. But it looks more sparse and, in some cases, easier to read. Also, please be aware that fonts with the same name (e.g., "cursive") may look completely different on different devices. VinoQuiz has no control over that.
  
  Like the font size, the font type change is per device. So if you use multiple devices to play VinoQuiz, you can have different font types (and font sizes) for each of the devices. It is generally a good idea that for each one of your devices, find the font type and size that you like and stay with it.
  
  
• Landscape mode: VinoQuiz can show the same screen design whether the mobile device is held in the Portrait (upright) or the Landscape (sideway) mode. VinoQuiz can also show a special design for landscape mode that allocates more space to the quiz area by moving the titles to the side (left) and eliminating quiz information bar on the bottom of the page. You can select the design of your choice using this option.
  
  This option has no effect when the device is held in Portrait (upright) mode.
  
  
• Sound effect: Sound can be muted , or partially muted and only turned on for essential sounds like important alerts and warnings , or not muted for any kind of sound .
• Animate zapping: Zapping is the term used to describe the effect when the user presses the Simplify button to remove (or zap) a bad answer. Zapping an answer from an answer list can just grey out a bad answer but keep it in the list. However, there are also setup options to remove the zapped answer from the list completely, using various animation speeds.
• Animate screen: This options allows you to change screen animation effects and other animation behavior through the Setup screen. If you choose to use animation, new screens will "Slide" in and out, and in Account management screen, accordion style menu options are used. In addition, by choosing this option, Quiz Category sliders on Setup screen are also animated. Some other screen animations are also impacted.
  
  You can also choose the "No animation" option to stop animations. You would only want to stop animations if your device (for example, an older device) has some issues with the animations.
• Shuffle answers: This purely cosmetic option shuffles the potential answers when a new quiz is first displayed. You can set the speed of the shuffle or disable it completely through Setup screen.
• Animate alerts: The alert and notification popups can be animated and their speed can be adjusted by setting this option to a value other than "No animation", inside the Setup screen.
  
  Alerts can be removed by clicking anywhere outside their box.
• Auto exit alerts: Most VinoQuiz popup alerts automatically exit after an appropriate number of seconds. While this may be fine for native english-reading users, it may be hard for other users to completely read the alert before the alert disappears. Setting this option to "Click to exit" will force the alerts to stay up, allowing the user to read the alerts at their own speed, until they manually click the alert to exit. You can also force the alerts to auto exit faster or slower than normal through this option.
  
  Most alerts can be removed by clicking the "X" exit button or by clicking anywhere outside their box.
• New Versions: VinoQuiz normally notifies the user when there has been a server side software or quiz database upgrade and version change. Such notifications can be turned on or off by setting this value in the Setup screen.

When in General Setup screen, following buttons are available:

Save	Save: Saves the settings and retuns to main quiz page.
Back	Back: Leaves the setup screen without saving any changes. Any changes made while in Setup will remain effective for the current session only. To change them permanently, use the Save button.

At the bottom of each quiz display screen, there is a Quiz Information Bar (note that this bar is turned off in landscape mode to save screen real estate). The bar displays useful information about the quiz that is being played as well as the current Setup preferences. An example of this information bar is shown below:

Quiz No.: 3

Quiz ID: 6100450 Redo

Difficulty: Moderate ✸✸

Category: Wines/Grapes @ 21.1%

Setup: Font: Normal III,Z3,N75%,

• Quiz Number: shows the number of quizzes that were played in this session. In this case, it shows that this is the 3^rd quiz.
• Quiz ID: This is a unique internal quiz identifier. In this case, it shows 6100450. The tag "New" means the quiz is new and the tag, "Redo" means it is a quiz that you answered incorrectly before and now you have a chance of redo, "Old" means it is a quiz seen before, and "Any" indicate that this quiz could be any of the above. See "Setting Other Quiz Options" section for a more detailed explanation of New, Redo and Any quiz types. (Show me)
• Difficulty: shows the quiz difficulty rating (in this case Moderate), and a difficulty star rating from 1 star (Easy) to 5 star (killer)
• Category: is the quiz category, in this case, Wines/Grapes. The percentage is the percentage of time you are likely to see quizzes of this category. You can change this percentage in the Setup screen.
• Setup: shows your general setup preferences, not specific to the current quiz. In the example shown, the current setups are:
  • Normal font size
  • Quiz difficulty level III. See difficulty level definitions. (Show me)
  • Number of zaps allowed, Z3 means 3 zaps in this example. Z9 means max possible zaps are allowed.
  • Quiz Mix: N75% indicates 75% New/Redo quizzes and 25% Old/Any quizzes.
  • Sound Effects: The speaker Icon shows the setting for different sound effect levels. See Sound effects for more info. (Show me)
  You can change all these settings in the Setup screen.

The first entry to VinoQuiz User Club is when a user answers 100 unique quizzes correctly and reaches Level 1. The level increses after that until you reach the first major milestone, the Elite 500+. The VinoQuiz logo color will change with the club level number displayed in the middle of it. Clicking the club level number in the middle provides more information about the User Club status.

For example, club level number 3 means you have answered at least 300 unique quizzes correctly. VinoQuiz logo color will change for each major milestone (i.e., 500, 1000 ... correct answers) as follows:


Logo colors will stay the same for Elite 5000+ or higher. After each quiz submission, the answer is evaluated and the result is displayed. When appropriate, additional explanation and information about the answer is provided. At the end of each run, the Stats button lets the user see the overall evaluation of his/her wine knowledge performance.

VinoMeter
The VinoMeter shows the level of expertise based on the overall quiz score. This rating is a function of total number of quizzes taken, number of correct answers, and the difficulty degree of each quiz.

If you have to summarize your performance by just a single number, this is the number to remember.

In addition to the rating number, a rating title, starting with the highest possible level of expertise (guru) is also provided.

How is the score calculated
While this may change in the future, at this time VinoMeter score is calculated by simply dividing the number of correct answers to the number of unique questions. By unique questions, we mean questions that the user has not seen before. This means that the score may go up, come down or remain the same after you answer a quiz depending on whether you had seen that quiz before and also depends on your previous answer to the quiz compared to your new answer. The example below will clarify this.

Assume your score is 80%; that means you have answered 80 question of the 100 unique questions correctly: 80/100 = 80%. We are now answering the next question. The table below shows what happens to the score if this is a new unique question, or it's a repeat non-unique question, and if you answered the question corrrectly or incorrectly:

	Question is new (unique)	Old answer was correct	New answer is correct	New ratio	New score
1	Yes	-	Yes	81/101	80.2%
2	Yes	-	No	80/101	79.2%
3	No	Yes	Yes	80/100	80%
4	No	No	No	80/100	80%
5	No	No	Yes	81/100	81%
6	No	Yes	No	79/100	79%

As you can see, after answering a new question, the score may go up by varying degrees (cases 1 and 5 above), may stay the same (cases 3, 4) or go down by varying degrees (cases 2 and 6).

Seeing a quiz that you have seen before and answered incorrectly is a great opportunity to quickly improve your score by answering it correctly this time as seen in case 5 above (i.e., the mistakes of the past can be corrected and erased).

Performance by Quiz Difficulty
Another aspect of Stats is the donut chart. It shows the score broken down by quiz dificulty levels. You can see how you performed in each difficulty category. On occasions during a new session, the user may encounter a quiz that was answered in previous sessions. In such cases, only the latest answer is considered when evaluating the score and rating. Therefore, the more VinoQuiz is played, the better are the chances of improving one's score.

Performance by Quiz Category
The bar chart section shows quiz performance by quiz category. You can see how you performed in each category, such as Wine & Grapes, Wine Regions etc. Its a good way to find out where your strengths are and where are the areas that need a little bit more work.

The category bars are sorted from high to low, meaning the first category appearing in the chart are the ones you answered more accurately. The lower you go on the category bars, the lower was the percentage of your correct answers.

Monthly Quiz Performance
This bar chart section shows monthly quiz performance as defined by monthly percentage of correct answers. You can see how you performed and correctly answered quizzes each month.

You generally like to see a monthly increase in this chart, indicating a monthly improvement on your correct answer scores.

Monthly Quiz Activity
This bar chart section shows monthly quiz activity, i.e., the number of quizzes (which may not be necessarily unique) run month by month. It also breaks down the numbers by correct (green) and incorrect (red) answers.

Average% Allowable Zaps Used
Zap means pressing the Simplify button when trying to find the right answer for a quiz. The button zaps (or removes) a bad answers -- thus the name "Zap".

This donut chart shows the Average% Allowable Zaps Used (organized by quiz difficulty). Allowable Zaps are the number of zaps (or Simplify button pushes) that you can use for each quiz.

For example, in a multiple-choice quiz with 5 answers, you can use up to 3 zaps. So in this case, if you used 2 zaps, you have used 2 out of 3 (or 66%) of the allowable zaps. On the other hand, in a quiz with 4 answers, you can use up to 2 zaps. So if you used two zaps to answer the quiz, you have used 2 out of 2 (or 100%) of allowable zaps.

Once organized by quiz difficulty, this number gives you an indication of how actively you have used the zap button for each level of difficulty. Normally, you would see that for quizzes with higher difficulty, one uses a higher percentage of allowable zaps.

In general, you want these numbers to be low, meaning that you are using less zaps than the 100% allowed.

Monthly Average of Allowable Zaps
This bar chart shows the Monthly Average of Allowable Zaps that were used (per month). The numbers are similar to above donut chart, but the values are organized by month.

A downward monthly trend on these numbers means that you are using less and less zaps and are becoming more proficient. If you installed VinoQuiz through the Apple App Store or Google Playstore downloads, VinoQuiz will install an icon on your mobile device and you do not have to proceed with any of the followings.

But if you accessed VinoQuiz through a PC or mobile device browser, read the following to see how you can install a VinoQuiz icon on your device home screen for ease of access.

VinoQuiz is a browser based game. But instead of having to click on its URL or saving it as a favorite or a bookmark, you can create an Application Icon for VinoQuiz on your mobile device homescreen, so all you have to do to start the game is to click that icon. You only need to do this once and it only takes a few seconds. Here is how you can do it for some popular mobile devices and for PC and Mac desktops: Make sure you have Chrome Browser on your device. Using Chrome Browser, go to VinoQuiz URL http://vinoquiz.us then click the menu button (on the lower left side of the phone) and select Add to homescreen from the menu. That is it! This will place a VinoQuiz icon on your phone's homescreen which looks just like a native app icon. Getting a VinoQuiz icon on an Android tablet is very similar to the procedure for Android phones listed above. To do so, make sure you have Chrome Browser on your device. Using Chrome Browser, go to VinoQuiz URL http://vinoquiz.us then click the browsers menu button that is on the upper right corner of the screen. Select Add to homescreen from the menu just as shown above. That's it. This will place a VinoQuiz icon on your tablet's homescreen. Just like a native app, you can click on this icon to start VinoQuiz from now on. Phones and iPads are very similar for this setup. Using the device's Safari Browser, go to VinoQuiz URL http://vinoquiz.us then click the browser's or button and then select Add to Home Screen icon from the menu. That's it. This will place a VinoQuiz icon on your device's homescreen. Just like a native app, you can click on this icon to start VinoQuiz from now on. You can create a VinoQuiz application icon on your PC or Mac desktop as follows: Open your Web browser. Go to the VinoQuiz starting page http://vinoquiz.us and click the small icon on the left side of the URL (website address field) and drag it from your browser's address field to the Desktop and release it. That is it. This will place a VinoQuiz icon on your desktop.