Hi,

I haven't used skritter for a good few months and am finding that's cant remember anything I studied, really. I basically want to clear my progress and start again, instead of constantly being challenged to remember stuff that I have no hope of remembering. I want to start right from the beginning, clearing all progress of my lists. Does anyone know how I can do this?

Please don't just reply with 'but that's the point of skritter, it will ask you until you remember' because as a language learner and teacher and speaker of 5 other languages I know exactly what I need on this occasion! Thanks!

With thanks,

Rachel

"Nuke" is what you should do to get where you say you need to be.

Yeah, it's in My Words -> Delete All.

There are a few other alternatives.

Removing some of your lists:
http://www.skritter.com/faq#remove_words

Using the Save Me function:
http://www.skritter.com/faq#save_me

As you realise cutting out words shouldn't make much difference. Skritter will test you on a small set of words until you reach your retention target for those words, then slowly introduce new words. By nuking / removing / save me'ing you just slightly change the order new words come in as you hit your retention rate on the little batch you're being tested on.

I took 2 to 3 years off Skritter and have been using it again for a few weeks for up to an hour a day and have gone from around 3,500 items to 2,500 items to review. I'm getting a lot wrong. I'd suggest lowering your retention rate way down, and not worrying about whether you get words right or wrong. If you can't remember straight away, just mark wrong, copy the character and move on as quickly as possible. Embrace the mistakes and keep moving as fast as you can and the review pile *will* go down.

After two months of doing about 45 minutes a day I cleared the queue of 3,500 items yesterday :P

Congratulations, well done!