As discussed in a previous thread,

http://www.skritter.com/forum/topic?id=28588051

some of us are going to have a Skritter/Twitter competition.

Here are the updated rules.

0. Study only your "Everything" list, although you can have Skritter add from whatever other lists you like. This is to avoid the effect where you only study lists for a short while and never review them, which inflates your "learned" numbers.

1. We're on the honor system here, so grade yourself strictly; if you got even single dot wrong, mark it as 2, and if you got more than a dot wrong, mark it as 1.

2. Set up Twitter notifications and post your Twitter ID on this thread. We'll all follow each other and see how we're doing.

3. As of 11:59 PM Eastern Time on Monday April 12th, we'll look at your last three Skritter tweets and see who has learned the most characters and who has reviewed the most items. We'll name a winner and runner-up in each category. If you happen to get four tweets, only the last three count for this competition.

4. Winners get bragging rights. We can make a web page that glorifies them.

If these rules don't work out well, we can revise them for the next time.

Start your engines!

James

P.S. I'm jww1066 on Twitter.

I´m joschua011 on twitter

OK, a minor issue is that people might have different notification schedules. To make everything nice and regular and give us enough data for our calculation, please set your notifications to every 3 days.

If for whatever reason we end up with fewer than 3 tweets per person, we can extrapolate from what we have, but this would be less than idea.

James

where can i set this?

祝贺比赛圆满成功。这一次，俺不想参加比赛，俺觉得改变学习的方式麻烦得很，也忒不得劲儿

对不住你们啊

哎呀！"忒"和“俺”什么都不认识。怎么奇怪的方言啊。 在中国北方人实在说跟这个一样吗？除非你的贵老师是农民吧...

@穆儿 没关系！请你参加下次。

@joschua011: You can set it here: http://www.skritter.com/reminders

James

我也要参加。 bplyons on Twitter

真巧我仅要四月十九号再开始工作。这个星期很有空！

@nwinter

Am I right in thinking that this starts at 4:59am GMT on the 5th April?

The start date is a little less well-defined. We're going to judge it by the last three tweets that come before the end of the competition.

James

Yeah ok, I suppose the start date doesn't actually matter that much.

Count me in, please :-)

I'm aeriph on twitter

Standings:

穆儿: 40
joschua011: 33
jww1066: 27
aeriph: 21
nick/nwinter: 8
Lyons: 2

Based on the latest tweets i found on Apr. 6th

Thanks joschua011, but I believe 穆儿 is not participating...

by the way...
穆儿, i am really impressed reading your tweets....
"Learned 148 Chinese characters on Skritter (now at 2214) in the past 3 days"
"Learned 68 Chinese characters on Skritter (now at 2056) in the past 3 days"
"Learned 154 Chinese characters on Skritter..."
this
this isn´t only amazing, but also kind of...motivating me =)

Yes, he's amazing. I'm a little worried about him. ;)

James

上瘾了啊，不过别操心，我还会控制。。。哈哈哈

And yes, I don't participate.
There is a major difference between us: I try to keep it down while you try to keep it up ;)

穆儿: I'd love to hear more about your learning technique, if you have any time to write about it.

Standings as of 9:00 EDT 4/11:

aeriph 98
jww1066 80
joschua011 59
nwinter 48 (based on the last three: he has another one due which may come in before the deadline)
bplyons 19

and I can't resist comparing our numbers to

穆儿 133

How many words have you guys added in this time? Roughly... Curious...

Based on my progress emails, I learned 72 words over the same time period.

I generally study new characters only as parts of words or phrases.

James