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Capturing the leeches...!automatically

Sandeep   August 9th, 2012 5:16p.m.

There are certain items I keep forgetting. Can skritter help me automatically find my leeches(such words which I forget to often after learning)
Scott nick... Help
Xie xie

lechuan   August 9th, 2012 5:36p.m.

As a workaround, I manually ban characters that I consider leeches.

When I have more focused studying time I'll go study some of my banned words and unban them.

Not automatic though...

shenqi   August 11th, 2012 2:00p.m.

I think there should be an option for starred words to appear more frequently in study.

lechuan   August 11th, 2012 2:27p.m.

I like Shenqi's idea. Maybe only increase the interval for starred words by half the normal amount when marked correct/so-so.

Also would useful to include a star icon in the main testing screen to indicat when the current character/word is starred. I often have to go into the info page to double check if I already starred the word.

nick   August 12th, 2012 7:16p.m.

I had done some work automatic leech detection, but the algorithms didn't detect them well enough, so I shelved it for the time being. When it gets back to the top of the list, I'll take another crack at it.

atnatenshon   September 17th, 2012 4:18a.m.

One more vote to increase the frequency of starred items or some item to say make this a high priority word.

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