Scaling the review mountain part 5 - the light at the end of the tunnel

This morning, I decided to try to see how long I could keep going and ended up doing 150 reviews in one long session.

Sat Dec 10 2022:
Time spent: 31m
Reviews completed: 150
Reviews remaining: 941
Reviews in next week: 1358 (+417)
Reviews in next month: 1889 (+531)
Accuracy: 74.67% (112/150)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 432
Guru: 413
Master: 363
Enlightened: 1547
Burned: 4631

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I get that, but you just burned 25 items in the very next session! If that’s what you call struggling, sign me up! :slight_smile: You got this!

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Also remember that this gets easier the more you keep it up!
As you get fewer apprentices you’ll get less reviews and it’ll be way easier to keep it all down compared to how far you’ve already come! :triumph:
頑張ってね

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Only one more kanji to go to level 48! Of course, the last one will likely take the longest, since the odds of it coming up for review are much lower when there’s only one left.

Sun Dec 11 2022:
Time spent: 6m L1
Reviews completed: 22
Reviews remaining: 995
Reviews in next week: 1381 (+386)
Reviews in next month: 1887 (+506)
Accuracy: 81.82% (18/22)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 434
Guru: 413
Master: 358
Enlightened: 1547
Burned: 4637

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speaking for myself here: when I try to develop or maintain a habit, I just force my self to do a single quantum of it every day (e.g. do 1 review, do 1 push up or cleanup 1 single item in the kitchen). Most of the time I end up doing much more, but that single thing that gets me started everyday is the most important one, which much be maintained at all cost. All the other repetitions are just bonus.

Even when I only do a single pushup on a given day, I still feel good about myself, knowing that this pushup took the most mental effort to do and also knowing that my habit is save.

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Mon Dec 12 2022:
Time spent: 17m
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 976
Reviews in next week: 1352 (+376)
Reviews in next month: 1870 (+518)
Accuracy: 71.00% (71/100)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 433
Guru: 412
Master: 353
Enlightened: 1530
Burned: 4661

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Tue Dec 13 2022:
Time spent: 16m
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 972
Reviews in next week: 1367 (+395)
Reviews in next month: 1887 (+520)
Accuracy: 81.00% (81/100)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 429
Guru: 405
Master: 361
Enlightened: 1513
Burned: 4681

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Homie I didn’t review for like 5 days straight, and I was staring at a pile of 300 some odd reviews. You gave me the strength to push through.

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I did amazingly well yesterday, 100 reviews in 14m with 89% accuracy, and it would have been a full 90% if it were for a typo on the last question.

Wed Dec 14 2022:
Time spent: 14m
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 969
Reviews in next week: 1338 (+369)
Reviews in next month: 1875 (+537)
Accuracy: 89.00% (89/100)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 427
Guru: 401
Master: 360
Enlightened: 1489
Burned: 4712

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I feel like I just accidently started season 5 of some epic 少年 anime and now I need to go rewatch from the beginning. Thank you for documenting your tournament arc so thoroughly.

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Thu Dec 15 2022:
Time spent: 16m
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 940
Reviews in next week: 1318 (+378)
Reviews in next month: 1860 (+542)
Accuracy: 81.00% (81/100)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 420
Guru: 397
Master: 362
Enlightened: 1480
Burned: 4730

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Fri Dec 16 2022:
Time spent: 12m
Reviews completed: 72
Reviews remaining: 955
Reviews in next week: 1288 (+333)
Reviews in next month: 1860 (+572)
Accuracy: 83.33% (60/72)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 417
Guru: 393
Master: 362
Enlightened: 1471
Burned: 4746

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Guru below 400 for the first time! Apprentice nearly below 400 as well! Reviews in the next month has gone down by about 150 in the last month! Looks like you have some enlightened that are building up for big burns this month! So close to that giant boulder finally tipping over and rolling down the hill, squashing all the reviews in its wake! Pace is gonna start getting crazy fast from here on!

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Here’s some updated graphs.

My review speed took a bit hit in early December, but I’ve been doing really well since Tuesday, so it has gone back up. I was surprised to see that the recent average is now near an all time high, since it certainly hasn’t felt like that. Note that this is a heavily smoothed rolling average, so the actual fall was more dramatic than it looks here.

Accuracy also tumbled and then came back up, but the fall was much longer and deeper. For a while, I was hitting the low 70s every time, but this week, I’ve been on a lucky streak with 80+ four days in a row, so it has gone back up for now.

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Sat Dec 17 2022:
Time spent: 0m
Reviews completed: 0
Reviews remaining: 1025
Reviews in next week: 1322 (+297)
Reviews in next month: 1860 (+538)
Level: 47

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I nominate this as your theme song, since you’ve scaled most of the mountain. Name of song is fitting…!

Towering Mountain

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I was planning to do 100 this morning but cut it short due to a headache, even though I was doing really well.

Sun Dec 18 2022:
Time spent: 8m
Reviews completed: 50
Reviews remaining: 1025
Reviews in next week: 1316 (+291)
Reviews in next month: 1859 (+543)
Accuracy: 84.00% (42/50)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 412
Guru: 398
Master: 356
Enlightened: 1469
Burned: 4754

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Mon Dec 19 2022:
Time spent: 10m
Reviews completed: 50
Reviews remaining: 1016
Reviews in next week: 1322 (+306)
Reviews in next month: 1845 (+523)
Accuracy: 82.00% (41/50)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 405
Guru: 402
Master: 355
Enlightened: 1464
Burned: 4763

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I’m going on vacation tomorrow and probably won’t be doing many reviews for a while.

Tue Dec 20 2022:
Time spent: 0m
Reviews completed: 0
Reviews remaining: 1105
Reviews in next week: 1351 (+246)
Reviews in next month: 1846 (+495)
Level: 47

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いってらっしゃい! :heart:

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