Confused about spacing when incorrect

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Hi hoping someone can help me work this out.

I understand what happens if you consistently get things right, that the repetitions get further and further apart - great.

However, I got an item wrong yesterday, I had it up again today and got it right - so far so good but when editing the level it was in after review I noticed it’s now next up for review in 12 days which has confused me a lot. I had assumed if you got something wrong then the repetitions were reset but clearly that isn’t the case.

This is an item that I had failed to recall after 6(??) days which I then got right on a 4 hour spacing so I find it alarming that it’s going to be 12 days before I see it again. Do all my items behave like that?

Presumably if I get it wrong again in 12 days then right on the 4 hour check then, it could get longer again when I’ve never proven I remember the item for longer that 4 hours.

Any advice welcome

Thanks

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Was it yellow-wrong or red-wrong?

I think that sometimes if you make a mistake once and then continue answering it correctly, it returns to the original sequence, because it might have been a typo or something and you in fact knew the word (it would be annoying to go through the whole sequence again because of a typo).

But I’m only guessing here, I do not know how exactly it works.

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It probably was yellow although I’ve noticed many mistakes end up yellow even when they are severe.

I just typed “der Dunkel” (the dark) when the answer was “der Drucker” (the printer) and this went yellow. I think those words are pretty different and it certainly wasn’t a typo…

Ideally I’d want to reset the progress on both those words as something has obviously got confused in there, instead it seems convinced I hardly need to revise the word at all. I have a good short term memory and get almost all words right at a 4 hour review so that really means nothing to me in terms of checking if I actually know something.

I presume there’s no way to make this yellow wrong less aggressive. I think it should be a max of 1 character. I don’t really want to stop guessing as I feel that process of reaching into your memory and making your best guess is useful in terms of building usable language skills.

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This topic comes up from time to time. There is some helpful explanation about how the review intervals work here: Why do some courses never come up for review?

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Thanks

Pretty annoying but I guess I’ll need to work out how to make it work.

Can you reset individual words or do you need to do the whole level at once?

I just wish I could turn off the “yellow” review as it is far too forgiving if you want to put a focus on correct articles, accents and spelling.

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No, I don’t think so, unless someone has written a user script for it.

For those with Memrise Pro, there is the ‘difficult words’ tool.

Alternatively, I created an unlisted ‘Revision’ course where I add and delete ‘tricky’ words that I have trouble with, so that I can replant them. It’s a bit clunky but works for me.

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Good idea thanks.

Might give that a try!