When you have a mental block

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Hello all,

I apologise for my last comment regarding missing or adding a vowel during reviews. It was incredible feedback that I learned a lot from.

This one is about when doing reviews. I sometimes during a review have a mental block on some kanji or vocab that I cannot remember at that moment and wish I could pass it and carry on instead of guessing something I know is wrong and relegating my current knowledge. I wish I could pass until later in the review thus stopping me completing the rest of the review where I can then concentrate on the ones I struggle with.

If I canā€™t remember at the later point I can then review why I couldnā€™t remember and then give myself another mnemonic to help me remember until it is second nature. At the moment I feel the current way can slow me down and put in answers that I know are incorrect just to be able to progress.

Wondering what peopleā€™s thoughts are?

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If you donā€™t know it immediatly, get it wrong. I understand you might want to get to it later after ā€œthinking about itā€ but the point is the speed in which you recollect the memory. Just get it wrong. This way the algorithm will do its job and present it to you sooner, rather than thinking a lot and increasing the algorithm. you will appreciate reviewing one more time and polishing the memory, rather than having to think about it for seconds (or minutes I donā€™t know).
My opinion

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If Iā€™m understanding you correctly, you want a skip button and then have all the items you skipped appear at the end? Maybe something thatā€™s possible with scripts, Iā€™m not sure.

It shouldnā€™t be too big of an issue in terms of learning. I mean, if youā€™re able to recall it eventually, thatā€™s whatā€™s important. From an efficiency standpoint Iā€™m not sure itā€™s worth it to worry over individual words too much. If I couldnā€™t get it in a relatively short period of time ā€œunder 10 seconds at leastā€ I would just type ā€˜aā€™, fail it, and relearn it.

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Yes kind of, then I could progress through the rest of the review and then spend time on the ones I struggle with later in the same review.

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I agree with Vanilla.
I understand your frustration but my opinion and experience (only) -
itā€™s okay to fail a review; youā€™re moving along well, the ones that you can answer correctly quickly.
Especially when I can type a bit quickly with fewer typos on a laptop, I try to answer reviews quickly and get them over with. For a few, I feel I need I to think and in that case, I might give 15-20s though, before answering. But anyway, making mistakes and having resulting repeated reviews is a normal part of the Spaced-Repetition-System.

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