How many new cards do you add a day?

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How many new cards do you add a day? - Dominic4774 - 2014-11-30

I've been considering raising my new cards add for a short period of time to see whether I can handle it, or not. I'm curious what the average amount of new cards is, and how long it takes. Even though I have time to do more than I am, I'm concerned of the long term effects on my reviews.

Questions:
*How many new cards do you add a day, and how long does it take?
*How many reviews do you have daily, and how long do they take?
*What is your retention rate?
*What's the most you've added (for at least a couple days)
*What's the most reviews you've had to do daily, and how long did they take?
*What was your retention rate?

Me currently:
*How many new cards do you add a day, and how long does it take?: 100. 30min for the first 100, and then about 30min of further review a couple hours apart throughout the day.
*How many reviews do you have daily, and how long do they take?: 220ish, slowly increasing. 30-40min
*What is your retention rate?: I've only been below 90% once, or twice.
*What's the most you've added (for at least a couple days): 100 is the most I've added since switching to this "easier" deck.
*What's the most reviews you've had to do daily, and how long did they take?: I think at some point during RTK I was at around 300. Took around two hours.
*What was your retention rate?: 80%

How many new cards do you add a day? - cophnia61 - 2014-11-30

What is the content of your deck? Words? You add 100 a day? Wow ._. I envy you!

How many new cards do you add a day? - Dominic4774 - 2014-11-30

WaniKani deck

How many new cards do you add a day? - yogert909 - 2014-12-02

What long term effects are you worried about? The worst that I can see happening is that you will run out of time to finish your reviews every day. However, if this happens, just stop adding new cards until it gets back to a manageable number again. It shouldn't take more than a few days to lower your daily workload by ~20% once you stop adding.

Regarding your questions, they are unlikely to be of much use to you as you don't know how much people already know about the new cards and which type of cards they are. For instance I add 12 new cards per day, but some are sentences and some are vocab. Does that count as 6 or 12 cards? Also, it sounds like you are studying cards that you already have a decent grasp on if you are getting >90% accuracy most days. The 6 new vocabulary I add every day, most I haven't ever seen in my life before I add them and the sentences contain several words I've never seen, so my accuracy is in the 75-85% range which significantly increases my daily workload. And lastly, if you've been adding cards for a year or 2, your daily workload will include a greater number of mature cards, so consequently you won't be able to add as many new cards as someone who just started studying.

*How many new cards do you add a day, and how long does it take? 12 cards,
*How many reviews do you have daily, and how long do they take? 200 reviews + failed cards = ~350 total reviews, 100 minutes
*What is your retention rate? 83% young, 92% mature
*What's the most you've added (for at least a couple days) 50
*What's the most reviews you've had to do daily, and how long did they take? 250 in ~120 minutes
*What was your retention rate? ~80%

How many new cards do you add a day? - jessem - 2014-12-02

I used to add 35 every day, but after about a month and a half of that my reviews really piled up, and I spent hours every day just reviewing. My retention rate dropped, it stopped being fun, and I abandoned anki.
Now I have found a much stronger and slower approach that mixes better with my busy college and part-time job life! I will spend no more than 1 hour a day in anki. Lately it's been about 10 minutes a day, since my job's been really busy. I do all my reviews BEFORE adding new cards, and only add as many new cards as I want to. I like the control this plan gives me. I try to add at least one new card every day, and avoid adding more than 20. It's easy to add 20 cards in a sitting, but the pain comes in the increased short-term review. In the past I've gone back between extremes - spending hours in anki and then abandoning it for months. But I've been going at this very casual pace for the past couple of months and it's working a lot better for me. If I want to spend more time practicing Japanese, I enjoy some native materiel, read about grammar, practice verb conjugation, cram failed cards, or try to do something other than add new cards. I suppose if you're just starting with Japanese this wouldn't work very well, but if you have a strong sense of grammar and know at least 1,000 words (preferably 2k), then I think you can benefit from native materiel just as much as you can anki. They're both important. And native materiel certainly maintains my interest in Japanese better than anki in the long-run...

I have no shame in my cheap easy anki stats! This is finally the method that works for me.

*How many new cards do you add a day, and how long does it take? 5-15 every other day (on average), takes less than 5 minutes
*How many reviews do you have daily, and how long do they take? About 50-100 every day (varies a lot depending on how many new cards I added recently), usually about 5 minutes of review.
*What is your retention rate? 100% most days, never below 90% (I should really add more new cards - ideal retention is more like 80% - but I just don't have the time and want to keep anki fun)
*What's the most you've added (for at least a couple days) I did 120 new cards in a day once...lots of fun but my reviews are the next couple days sucked. That was towards the end of RTK.
*What's the most reviews you've had to do daily, and how long did they take? 500 something...took me a couple hours. I just got through it in 50 card blocks throughout the day...
*What was your retention rate? Don't remember! I think it was around 70 or 80%?

How many new cards do you add a day? - Stian - 2014-12-03

For Japanese (before quitting Anki)
*How many new cards do you add a day, and how long does it take? On average about 20
*How many reviews do you have daily, and how long do they take? 120-150, 20-25 min
*What is your retention rate? - 85%-95%
*What's the most you've added (for at least a couple days) - I added 45-ish once
*What's the most reviews you've had to do daily, and how long did they take? - 150-ish, 25-ish min
*What was your retention rate? - See above
(My Japanese is still rubbish btw, I just lost the motivation to do Ankiing)

Currently for Spanish:
*How many new cards do you add a day, and how long does it take? 15 (except the two days or so when it was 0 and the one occasion, where I added 30 because of AnkiDroid messing it up...)
*How many reviews do you have daily, and how long do they take? 110
*What is your retention rate? 90% +-5%
*What's the most you've added (for at least a couple days): 15 still (I often end up with backlogs, for instance after adding 45 cards or so, which usually results in me taking a couple of days off actually entering new cards...)
*What's the most reviews you've had to do daily, and how long did they take? 200 - was lying in hospital for two days, and my phone ran out of juice the first night, and thus I had about 200 cards due when I can back.
*What was your retention rate? Worse.

How many new cards do you add a day? - kraemder - 2014-12-27

I went back to the 6k deck and anki about a month ago now. I used to flip flow between different apps on my phone but mostly used Flashcards Deluxe which is similar to anki but easier to make your own decks. I would make decks on the weekend from say an anime script of a show I liked and had about 150 new vocabulary words. I'd add them immediately all at once. I was terrible about getting my reviews done every day. Big surprise right?

So for almost a month now I've bee using Anki and the prebuilt deck 6k/10k. I disabled the first 2k since I know 99% of them anyway and I add vocabulary randomly as opposed to sequentially. I experimented with 20/day 35/day and 50/day. I was doing only recognition cards until recently and could really get through a lot (at least in my opinion, people on here seem to be machines..) but then, some words I already know anyway. It was taking me about 40min/day which is really doable since you have your phone with you everywhere you go.

I recently turned on the production cards too. My review time has gone up by a LOT. I'm doing 30 new cards a day. I think I had initially done both production and recognition since it seemed this immediately increased my pending by 150/200 or so. But it's getting better quickly. The review time was down to an hour today. I think I get cards right hmm why guess when I can get my phone..

52 minutes. 82.8% correct. learn 84, Review, 214, relearn 81.

In all honestly I don't understand everything on that stats page but I stare at it a lot lol.

If people are doing RTK and giving those numbers it's really not the same as vocabulary. Vocabulary is a lot harder in my experience. I'm redoing RTK actually starting just recently. I didn't jump start it with 100 new or anything I am just doing 20/day form day 1 which was 8 days ago I think. My review time is about 7 min a day. It is review after all. But it's been a while since I did RTK or wrote kanji. When I did RTK the first time, it was -not- 20 a day. It was several hundred a day and then review like mad and chaos lol. But RTK is forgiving like that since it's easy so I learned a lot. I'm doing it slowly and steadily this time and will go through RTK 3 also which I haven't ever looked at.

How many new cards do you add a day? - Sauzer - 2014-12-28

cophnia61 Wrote:What is the content of your deck? Words? You add 100 a day? Wow ._. I envy you!

They said 100 additions but only 220ish daily reviews. So I'm thinking they were on like day 4 when they made that post. Smile

I usually don't dare push it above 15/day for vocabulary but I really have to beat words into my head so my accuracy and hence review load is probably higher than some.

How many new cards do you add a day? - Roketzu - 2014-12-28

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This shows how it's difficult to gauge exactly how much I add per-day. It varies wildly depending on what I feel like doing. Sometimes I'll spend months focusing on vocabulary then, as you can see with the most recent 3 months, I'll barely do any because I'm focusing on something else.

Questions:
*How many new cards do you add a day, and how long does it take
---- Varies - I only add words I feel I already know.

*How many reviews do you have daily, and how long do they take
---- Used to be 400+ - currently around 200. About 25 minutes

*What is your retention rate
---- 94%

*What's the most you've added
---- 200+

*What's the most reviews you've had to do daily, and how long did they take
---- 400+ - Felt like a long time but I can't remember exactly.

*What was your retention rate?
---- I believe my lowest was around 86% when I used to add words I didn't know. I use Anki more as a long term vocabulary retention tool, not as a tool to learn new vocabulary.