Swimming isn’t just a verb, it’s a noun, which is probably what OP meant when they typed that.
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Swimmingly is an adverb
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whats team anki mode?
If you know, you know.
Its one of the experimental modes in Smouldering Durtles. You can make Readings/Meanings in the style of anki where its just pass/fail. I use it for meanings because there are multiple meanings for some words and it helps me memorize all the meanings as opposed to just one.
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What’s Team Messi?
Makes sense. It has lowered my frustration a lot with typos and words that were close enough. I am still pretty careful about typos(i was almost paranoid before undo) but they happen when you are doing 1000 reviews a week.
I understand their mind. To a certain point, I know if I would have that undo button, I would abuse it from time to time too. But on the other hand, I’m currently having a really bad time with all my typos ( I write really fast). As I see it, a typo forces me to either accept an unfair mistake or close the app (losing many reviews) just so it doesn’t count.
So in other words, I can already abuse the system, but with a huge penalty that usually leads to me getting stressed and not doing reviews for many days. Therefore, I feel not having an undo button is affecting negatively my learning experience and not the other way around
All in all, this is not a race, so if someone decides to cheat, they’re only lieing themselves.
I guess I’ll start using flaming durtle, but dunno, I wish I could stick to the original webpage, since it feels more fluid for me.
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yeah me too! i have had to force myself to type slower!
i remember i would copy and paste the word into the search section of wanikani on a different tab, check if i was correct, then enter the review. i’ve stopped, but seriously…
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Initially I was of the opinion that “eh, typos happen, just more repetition to study it”, but as I get further along, the idea that something gets kept in progress for a month extra to go from master to enlightened again has made me way more bothered by failures due to typos or kanji tenses etc.
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This has been WK’s stance since time immemorial, so no big surprises. Of course, it’s also been the case that this app was conceived as a Kanji-only app and this has now changed, so who knows what will happen.
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That is an immensely frustrating response.
We are not children, well most of us anyway, and they are not our parents or teachers in a formal educational setting. Whether or not a certain percentage of people cheat should not be their concern. On one level I understand the desire to maintain the integrity of the process, but those people are going to go install DoubleCheck, or use Flaming Durtles anyway. So they might as well stop pissing off the people who want a native undo to use in a responsible manner. These people are their best customers and they are telling them to go pound sand. Not a great way to run a business IMHO.
Just baffling that they are so obstinate in this position.
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Lack of an undo button for typos is the main reason I never use the website for reviews and exclusively go through the phone app.
Especially when you can read the Japanese and know the meaning but don’t have a tip of the tongue definition in English “Buddhist things you read that are religious”…oh yeah, “sutra.”
I’d also like a “redo” button for when the site accepts my typo answer, but then I realize after inputting it that I definitely had the wrong answer in my head (moreso with transitive vs intransitive, but a few times regular words have cleared when I was 100% wrong about the actual meaning)
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i resisted the undo button for over two years.
but i’ve had enough of typos. i mix letters around all the time, and i mix kana around too. my lips say one word, and my fingers type something completely different. and sometimes i catch it, but often i don’t.
and i’ve had enough of WK refusing perfectly valid answers. that is just so annoying.
but i was like, can i trust myself not to cheat? and i was like, “trust the system”.
so i’ve been running double-check for a month or so. and guess what: i can trust myself. i use it a few times a week, on genuine typos. and even less in order to add valid answers as user synonyms.
and as for trusting the system, WK has shown that they don’t know what their own system is good for and what not…
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You might call that an immensely frustrating response, I call it a blatant lie.
The lack of an undo button for stupid typos (e.g. typing ri when wanting to type ru on mobile device), the removal of the summary page, the addition of “useful” kana like hai and koko have only one thing in common: trying to keep subscription users as long as possible paying.
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Just install double check my people. You can have the feature right now. No need to get upset about it not being available.
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I was going to reply, “Well, you can always install an Undo script in that case,” but then I thought: “Wait a second… Why don’t they just make it a feature that is off by default, but can be turned on by anyone who wants to ‘abuse’ it?”
So, I end up agreeing with you that they should just implement it, and simply have it off by default (since they want most users to experience the app without the ‘so easy to cheat, you risk cheating yourself’ feature available immediately). Just make it an ‘advanced’ or ‘super-user’ or ‘danger zone’ feature!
Of course, that would require that their codebase is mature enough that they can easily implement ‘opt-in’ or ‘opt-out’ features. Which, if recent history tells us anything…
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Not everyone can or wants to install scripts. Basic features should be available natively, scripts should only be needed for advanced customisation or niche features.
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FTFY
Anyone can do it. It’s pretty straight forward. There’s instructions and everything.
Might still be restricted in some cases like if using a work- or school-owned computer, and not allowed to install TamperMonkey. So, still, “Not everyone can”.
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