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# The Problem

A google search for "R Quiz" returns 235k results.  So why build another one?

There are a number of attractions to testing R knowledge:

* Skills Testing 
* Preparing for Skills Tests
* Education and growth

Currently there is no single (freemium) platform that can address all three of these points.  To take each in turn:

## Skills Testing
To be effective, the platform must have the following features:
 * Sufficiently large to avoid rote memorisation (or be private, and hence unsuitable for education & growth)
 * Ability to objectively measure question difficulty.  This requires that answerers exclusively represent the target audience (ie, R professionals)
 * Questions that are accurate and well written.  This requires professional copywriters (expensive, finite) or a robust community review system.
 
## Preparation for Skills Tests
Possibly the most common use case for R Quizzes, the 

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