I'm sorry if this has already been brought up, I couldn't find a topic.

It seems that the percent complete of a list refers only to the place you're up to in a list, rather than the total percentage of words known in a list. For example, I have added Mandarinboy's* Chinese movie word frequency list 1-1000. Words are being added from section 3, so my progress is shown as 40.5%, with 595 words left. However, this does not seem to take into account words past this point that I already know. When I look at even the last sections of this most of the words still have the green circles. I guess that I know about 75% of the words in the list, with 150 remaining. I think this figure is more useful than where you're up to in the list. Is there anyway to check the total number of words already known in a list? If not, is this a feature that has been considered for implementation?


*(Thanks Mandarinboy - there are only 13 people studying this list but it's really useful for me.)

This has been brought up before. I think the problem was the entire list would need to be downloaded in order to check which would increase bandwith.
But I agree the percentage complete number is pretty pointless if you know other words in the list.

I have same issue. Since everything sinks to the server it seems like it would by pretty easy to offline calculate the number of unknown words in the lists a user is adding from. Not an absolutely perfect number, but not consuming too muh bandwidth and way more useful for me.


Also, I agree about subtitle based lists including mandarinboy's.

I think it's more about processor (calculation time). Either it has to be recalculated every time you add a word (since that word (or sub-characters)) may be on other lists.

Or it recalculates it every time you view the list, in which case it will slow down the display quite a bit... you can already see how long it takes to update the display for which words you know/don't know (green dots).

I agree that this should be something fairly easy to do and would really appreciate this feature. I don't care how long I have to sit and wait for it.

I was 35 chapters into a 70-chapter textbook when I accidentally set the "add vocab from" to Chapter 36 as I was trying to change a different setting (apparently, hitting "save settings" saves EVERYTHING even if you didn't touch everything?!). Suddenly my list progress showed that I've done 0%. That's absurd given that I have completion dates on the previous 35 chapters. Why can't Skritter just add all those chapters back into my progress? It may seem small, but it *really* meant a lot to me to see my progress on this textbook. I feel like I just lost a year of work.

Sorry about that! It will add the progress completion dates back if you set yourself back to add from Chapter 1 and then add one word from the list to My Words on the study page (in case the automatic scanning got stuck). It will probably take a while to recalculate, but afterward you should have the progress back to where you were.