I’ve been using MR for about 3 days and I really like it. This was a flaw (I thought) that stood out that would be nice to have remedied.
Sometimes, we get a sentence or phrase presented and we have to choose tiles below that represent the translation. That’s fine when you’re starting out and it’s a help to see the words.
But it would be great if you had the option to start typing in the sentence for credit instead. If you wanted to be fancy about it, as we type in words, have the tiles fly up to the position as typed. (But that’s not a big deal.)
Anyway, keep up the good work. You might tempt me to get the pro membership someday.
This type of excercise is actually called tapping, not tiling
The problem is, that you can not move one to two tiles (e.g rearrange) with the mouse afterwards, once set in the text box field.
THIS is a big design flaw!!!
If you e.g make a single error, which you recognize by yourself, you have to remove ALL tiles starting from the error tile and restart tapping again.
This is not very user friendly, at least on the web interface.
Also I very much dislike that for a single error the whole “working/testing” screen disappears, all tiles (including errors) can not be seen anymore but the “error/solution” screen only represents the full sentence, without showing you where your own error were (your own “tile sentence” is not added to the screen).
If you REALLY care about effective reviewing methods, you MUST install user scripts for Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey and the web interface.
One of the very great users scripts made by Cooljingle is called “all typing”.
And it even works for the offical Memrise courses (e.g Portuguese 1-7) where they have mixed “words,” that is you can type even phrases/sentences that have more than 15 characters.
You do not have to use multiple-choice or tapping excercises anymore.
There is a typing setting on the left screen where you can customize how the script should work.
Just installed Tampermonkey + the all typing script… worked like a charm.
Thanks very much for the pointer. No need for the word tile feature any more: I retract my request. (“word tap” just still sounds wrong, but ok if you insist, the verb form can be “tapping” )
