Hi all! I just wanted our users to know that we’ve added a small feature to the bottom of the quiz today to allow you to manually inflate the strength rating of a word.
From your feedback in mails and on the Uservoice forum, we noticed a number of experienced users getting tired of having to constantly answer over and over words that they already knew. We thought to add this feature in to help side-step this annoyance slightly. And while I don’t recommend people who are just starting to use this feature, it is helpful for experienced students trying to use Read The Kanji.
There are a few things about it that you should know, however. First, you cannot manually inflate the strength of a compound that you have not answered correctly at least once. I think this is a nice rule because in my opinion, even if you think you know something, you should still be absolutely sure before trying to skip over it. Also, only a word’s strength is inflated, not the kanji included inside the word .
Second, if you do choose to manually inflate a word’s strength, if the word is below 50% strength, clicking the link will make it rise to 50% (yellow). If the word comes up again, and you click the link for a second time, it will then raise the kanji to 80% (dark green). In the future, we may reduce it to just “click once and it goes straight to 80%” if the feedback is strong enough, but because this is a new feature, I thought it would be wiser to have a safeguard in place and see how it goes first.
If you use it often, let us know what you think of it, or if we can improve it in some way. As always, we are listening and discussing all of your feedback!
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