reacting to my most insane geoguessr moments 

His deadpan “no” in the first tik tok is what makes it so funny

Name a better duo: "this is very much Brazilian dirt" "the trees look Polish"

RAINBOLT: Brazilian dirt, we'll take that Portugal: Brazilian dirt, we'll take that

Other people: "How could he know it was brazilian just looking at the dirt! that's impossible!" Brazilians: "Yeah, that dirt is very brazilian indeed"

I love how he repeats exactly what he says as hes rewatching LOL

The "no" in the first tiktok makes me laugh every fucking time. Paired with incredible GeoGuessr gameplay makes it easily my favorite tiktok.

This guy made me stop touching grass and start studying grass

this guy would be able to get kidnapped and left in the desert, and he'd know his exact latitude and longitude just from a single shrub

i feel like a disclaimer should be said: u can’t really become this good at geoguessr by just memorizing stuff like this and watching these videos to learn. it takes playing geoguessr for a very long time to get this good. he stated in a previous video he picked up geoguessr again at the start of covid so

im so happy to see geoguessr blowing up right now, it really deserves the recognition its getting keep up the good content, cant wait for 100k

You know this is natural and second nature to him when he naturaly says "Nice" on his reaction lmao

I'm not even a geoguessr pro, barley made it to master tier and I can confirm the thing with brazilian dirt. You can just feel it through your screen

So glad to see GeoGuessr getting a platform thanks to you! Amazing informative video! Thanks again for all that you do :)

breaking down your thought process for the 0.1 second decisions is like some anime-level time dilation.

idk why but this video himself of explaining his runs feels like a speedrun

0:24 As a Thai, I wouldn’t have known that it was Thailand, if there was no text on the sign. You are insane Rainbolt

make a compliation of your worst guesses haha that would be funny

I really don’t think that people can comprehend the amount of time you have put in to this, huge props

Just a side note, for Australian state initials, we say the letters individually; not as a sound. (Bar a couple. Like Tas or Vic.) Hearing you say WA as a Waluigi Waaaaaah was great. Thanks for the laugh.

5:53 that kind of foliage and low-lying trees/brush is actually very indicative of eastern canada. Novascotia, PEI, Newfoundland, ect because it's a lot rockier there, particularly around the coasts, you don't get big trees like in the rest of Canada. You can also tell it's not BC (the other coast) because being further away from where the english settled and across the rockies, it wasn't hit as hard by loggers as well being on that side of the rockies kept a lot of rain and weather from passing out of BC leading to big natural forests.

I have the exact same thing with the countries that I know particularly well. It's kinda freaky that you can "feel" where a photo was taken just by looking at the foliage and road surface but it just works. Similar to how we can tell when something "doesn't sound right" or how AI algorithms learn to distinguish between different things.

I smiled so hard at the concept of "Brazilian dirt" because I immediately knew exactly what you meant. The orangy-clay colour is unmistakeable.

As an half Brazilian, yes, the brazilian dirt, especially in the south of the country is very red and recognizable if you see it just once in your life

This guy might as well be kidnapped and dropped off in the Sahara desert and he'll be like "Yep, definintely northwestern Sahara desert dirt, there is a small town a few miles up north"

Rainbolt is the reason I got into GeoGuessr

Very interesting to see your thought process! In those TikToks, it looks like magic - but after you explained it, it kinda seems more logical… but still magic

It’s genuinely so fascinating to watch you break down all of these videos! You’re entertaining to watch, and it’s so cool to see more and more people get into geoguesser!!

I think what is going on in here is pattern recognition. A subconscious process that is very hard to explain because one does not really think about the small details the brain uses to come up with the educated guesses. Then there are the conscious learned things like with the cars, roads signs and electric poles. This is to validate feelings like "It feels like Peru", because indeed your subconsious brain saw the patterns invisible to your conscious brain and gave you the feeling of it being Peru. Veritasium has a nice video about the subject of experts, which in my opinion is exactly what is happening here. Greetings from the Nordics

I just want to thank you for taking time to explain the guesses you make, it is genuinely so educational and entertaining; one of my favorite parts about watching you. I've been playing the game and watching content creators of it for over a year now, you're without a doubt one of the best I've come across. Thank you for making the videos and streaming, I wish you all the success!

"I've looked on this road millons of times while i was studying Australia" that one got me 😂😂😂😂

It's funny, you have a hard time recognizing Newfoundland but since I live there I can easily tell it apart from the rest of Canada. It's the short, windswept conifers mixed with a scattered ash or birch tree, paired with the rugged terrain and poor road conditions. Also eastern NFLD looks very different than western. The eastern part near the Avalon peninsula where most coverage is will often have small to medium lichen-covered boulders jutting out of the moss-lands.

The dirt/soil geo-guessing still blows my mind even though you are explaining it. Love the video Rainbolt!

This was a really cool explanation for the details you look for. Thanks for sharing this!

I love how you repeat what you have said, it is so funny to me for some reason. Would love a part 2!

It’s amazing looking in to your thought process when it comes to these. Also really helps as someone that’s easing their way into learning too!

Worst thing is. I live in northeast Brazil and that does indeed look like Northeast Brazil. It is specifically Brazil's semi-arid climate, the Caatinga. That's from north of Bahia up to South/Middle Piaui or from northeast Bahia, through Pernambuco, all the way to Rio Grande do Norte. I identified it due to the fence and tree, however, not the color of the dirt.

This is exactly what I was hoping you would do. I love your content it's super fascinating. You going to break a million before the end of the year. Congratulations

Please do more of these videos its genuinely such a fun thing to watch plus I learn a little more when watching these videos deff helps

As a brazilian the dirt thing is very true, red soil is pretty common especially in the south/southeast because of ancient lava flows

So amazing yet so humble, I’m glad I got to find him through Ludwig, will be following for a long time with so much oleasure

Thanks for all the explaining, really helps us who are trying to get into geoguessr

galaxy brain rainbolt can just guess based on "vibes"

Hope you continue to post more on RU-vid! I really love watching you play/listening to your commentary.

i love hearing your thought process on this!! my toxic trait is thinking i’m picking up how to play just by watching your tourneys and stuff LOL

geoguessr tourney idea, i would love to see a mode where you have teams of 3 but the team score averages the best two players (throw away the bottom). on a few of the guesses we've seen so far, including the second guess in the score would wildly change the outcome. makes precise hedging more important as opposed to "just cover as many regions as possible"

Your my favorite guy on RU-vid, Tiktok, Twitter whatever, people like you for your amazing skill and now i see two that you're very honest about everything. keep going!

Would love to see more videos like this explaining your guesses. It’s very interesting to hear you try to breakdown split second instinct into rational thought

This is such a crazy talent to have, and it’s insane to watch. I don’t know how you even get this good, and it’s crazy how much this guy knows

ur content is awesome and rlly entertaining, looking forward to what u put out in the future

Rainbolt you are such a genuinely nice person god bless you.

You are quickly becoming one of my new favorite youtubers. Keep it up!

You've gotten really good at pattern recognition and using your intuition based on patterns you've noticed in the past.

Bro you are closing in on 100k already thats insane keep up the good work man Watched you since the begining

This was both very fun and entertaining so please do more

i love seeing ur thought process :D amazing work man

Please keep making videos! Love them even though I'm not great at geography.

cool vid!! i love vids where i get actual explanations to stuff i love listening. thank you :)

Rainbolt looks like every second of every day he is being reminded of his past trauma and he's trying to hold it all together

Love to see people WHO are great at things say that everything is not first try because its easy to think that if all you see is highlights so big up to you!

what gets me is how much knowledge you gain about different places on earth by doing this - how many facts you were spitting about all of these countries. that's a very powerful asset

As someone living in New Zealand, here might be some additional knowledge for you: Harakeke, or flex plant only grows in New Zealand, and they grow literally everywhere, included in that image. So if you see it, it cant be chile

really helpful, thanks for breaking it down!

This is amazing. it's really interesting to kind of get the idea of what you were thinking when you made them :D

you explaining that you make mistakes too was an unexpected wholesome spike out of no where. besides that you are definitely a genius to do what you do.

this dude literally spends more time waiting for it to load than actually playing the game

Idk why but it's so funny when he talks and syncs up with his past self

Bro rainbolt it's so cool to see you blowing up your a sick and hardworking guy keep it up bro! 🥶❗️

Subscribed. I really enjoyed your explanation on how you're able to tell where the pictures are from.

I have some insight on why 0.1s is possible! Visual memory can be analysed in 3 stages iirc from my intro psychology class. There is a fraction of a second where you have access to basically *the entirety of the visual information you saw.* Then most of that is lost and the "important bits" transferred to working memory, which is about 20s. Then, the tiny amount you chose to remember about the image gets stored in your mid term memory. Think of it like a "cache" on a CPU, then only parts of it get transferred to RAM, and then after 30s or so an even smaller amount of it gets stored to hard drive. The important part is: In that first moment just after seeing the image, you still have basically the entire thing available to you, before it rapidly decays at an exponential rate. Which means that if you have the experience / are good enough to make use of and process information within that first half a second or so, it is actually surprisingly "easy" to do something like this.

rain bolt repeating himself "we'll take that" has something reassuring and calming

Great recap! Would love to see more!

It’s insane how you can make it sound so easy. Your thought process is not only incredibly clear, but the fact that you can take in that much detail that quickly, that perfectly, AND remember your exact thoughts to explain it so clearly, it’s superhuman.

If I see orange-ish dirt in Geoguessr, it's most often Brazil, Cambodia, or Uganda. It's usually pretty easy to distinguish between those three countries unless it's completely offroad and there are no signs or people visible. The number one weird thing I look for in rounds is recycling bins since they quite often have readable town names on them although that's more to tell which town or city I'm in, which country the round is in is usually obvious before I'm at the stage where I'm trying to read town names off of bins.

this guy is the definition of "why travel? I already know what the whole world looks like!"

This was awesome man! Defs wanna see more!

Love your content man, it's crazy

you look like you run really fast

I’m so happy to know that robots have not reached geoguessr yet

Love you bro you’re really upping the geoguesser skill ceiling i was hitting

I honestly commend your knowledge of the world I would love to see more of your vids so I subscribed!!

As someone who won my school’s geography bee and nearly made it to the finals of the state bee this guy is just on a completely different level. I can probably do the same thing as him with countries outlines but no way I could do this.

You should try a challenge where you get viewers to send in photos of their travels and you guess where they are when they took it. Would be a really cool way to interact with the community and I think would be a difficult challenge.

I really love the first joke. It was my first introduction to you and one of my friends showed that tiktok and it was so funny

It’s a ton of work so it makes sense if you don’t want to, but it’d be super cool seeing like a master class series on identifying different things, license plates, bollards, soil, foliage

i love that you say nice to yourself at a guess then the video also says nice

people say "go touch grass" but having this knowledge of the world is worth the learning

Seeing yourself happy makes you happy again. Awwwww that's so adorable

You are literally making the world feel so SMALL with your guesses!!!

As a Brazilian with family in both areas he guessed, yes it does look like Brazilian soil 😭

I'm from Brazil. Everything he said about the brazilian dirt makes sense to me. It's a kind of unspoken knowledge, but it's there.

your style of comedy only shines when you're playing geoguessr and I love it

I can definitely relate to the "sixth sense" bit, if you live anywhere rural you can kind of tell when you see your area in a photo online or something. Whether its the trees, the lighting, the shitty pothole filled MidMichigan roads or whatever, you just kinda know. One tidbit about Michigan in particular is that forests are very rarely only one type of tree, its always a mix of maple, birch and pine trees. Plus backroads usually have very deep ditches with long grass in them.

It’s cool how he acknowledges that he has developed sort of a sixth sense. I know exactly what you mean, since I play a lot of puzzle games like sudoku. I also do some weird things which I don’t really know how I come up with the solutions. It’s just my sixth sense doing it lol.

omg how does he do it

1 year later and I'm still blown away just by your inquisitive intuition alone.

gl on 100k man ily

I remember like 4 or 5 years ago I used to watch captaindparklez casually play geoguesser and even he picked up on Brazilian dirt being very red

As a Brazilian, I can confirm. That DOES look like Brazilian dirt. Edit: in BOTH instances.

When you explain what you're seeing then it's easier to see how fast you get it, especially having spent so much time playing the game. I'm crap at that game but if there was a "Computer parts guessr" then I'm sure I'd be top 10

This was cool, very impressive. Also you seem such such a nice guy.