I’m sure that many people who do any course with whole sentences in them (and those are far superior to those with only individual words) have been in the situation where they tap the whole sentence… and then they realise that they got the word order wrong somewhere starting with the third word. What do you do in that situation? You tap-tap-tap all the words back out of the answer box, and then tap-tap-tap them all in again in the right order - even though you might have only needed to flip two words. Funnily enough, this is easier to fix in the otherwise slower typing tests, where you can move through your answer.
To make myself clear - I don’t think this is an issue of not making it before the timer runs out: if you know what you’re doing and you’re actively tapping, it won’t run out - it has never happened to me, at least. It’s purely a point of a waste of my, out-of-Memrise, regular time, in a way that doesn’t contribute to the learning process at all. If we could just drag the already placed words left and right inside the answer box, this would be much more user-friendly!
I could’ve sworn you could drag the words around, at least in the iOS app. One weird thing I’ve noticed about the coding, though, is that if you try to remove a word that appears twice in the phrase, it won’t actually remove based on which one you tapped to remove but rather on which one is first, which is sort of odd…
Good suggestion - I many times thought the same about this (lack of) code implementation (but honestly, more applications like Duolingo, Mondly, etc.) act this way!
As there is a Tampermonkey user script to disable the timer, this is not the real problem.
It feels like we are living in the stone age when we can not rearrange just 1-2 word banks (or add a missing single word which we maybe forgot in the beginning).
You better replace tapping with typingfor reviews with Cooljingle’s “all typing” (Tampermonkey) user script for the Memrise web portal!
True, but tapping has its uses during learning sessions, particularly when it’s a complex sentence. I agree that typing is far better for the final test.
What do you do in that situation? You tap-tap-tap all the words back out of the answer box, and then tap-tap-tap them all in again in the right order - even though you might have only needed to flip two words. Funnily enough, this is easier to fix in the otherwise slower typing tests, where you can move through your answer.