Is it possible to break Spaced Repetition?

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@Eikichigai

I just didn’t know if not waiting till I almost forgot a Kanji, and studying it during down time, would break the Science behind it and not burn it in as well as if I had just waited.

MegaZeroX researched this very topic to find out what science has to say about it. TL;DR the more often a see an item the more likely you will remember it on the long term You just have to avoid looking at it just before doing your reviews.

There is no such thing as cheating yourself in SRS

First: what is this thread about? Well, something I’ve seen regularly posted in the WK forums is that doing any reviews outside of the scheduled ones will actively harm your learning, which sounded strange to me. I spent much of today delving into research of the field, and the post below is my findings. There will be a tl;dr at the end of the post. Let me give a disclaimer. I don’t do research in this area, nor do I know anyone that does. This is primarily just what I got from reading two meta…