There's some people that within a couple of seconds show the card if they don't know it. I've always took as long as I needed. I've been wondering lately if it's really worth taking as long as you want. I've been thinking lately maybe if you can't answer a card within a couple of seconds It's probably better just to relearn it. This would make reviews a lot faster since sometimes I spend 30+ seconds trying to think about what a card means, which sometimes leads to me getting distracted. What are your guy's thoughts? Do you give yourself a certain amount of time to answer a card?

I mentioned in another topic that I only spend like 5-10 seconds max on a single review. It pretty much means that you don't know the content that well in my opinion.

For kanji I might take longer since I'm trying to write them down as I review them, but might step down from doing so as they take much longer to review...

I average under 2 seconds. Max is ~5 seconds, I guess.

Considering I usually review while on my lunch break, and I'm using full sentences with the target kanji colored/highlighted, I don't worry about how long each card took. One card might take longer because I wasn't actually looking at it while I chased a stubborn bit around my bowl with the chopsticks or something. I tend to average about 30 seconds per card that way. If I review while not doing something else, I tend to go at least twice as fast.

Found this addon: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/465518805

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Personally, I have AnkiDroid setup to progress after 30 seconds. With immature cards I tend to press pass (or hard) if I take around 10 seconds or more to answer; whilst with mature cards I will fail them.

Quote:Found this addon: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/465518805

I need to look at the source for that plugin. It should be relatively easy to automatically adjust the time limit based on the card's maturity level.

If you answer this without specifying what kind of card the answer is meaningless. Anyone can answer simple vocab cards fast.

Using a metronome vｏｃａｂ　ｃａｒｄｓ take 1-2* seconds for me. I agree with Ikore that long thinking times indicate poor recall, but more important than that is just the fact that if I'm strict with myself I can often fail a card and bring it back to it's previous maturity in less review time than I would spend straining for the answer.

Like six8ten said though, if you do your reviews while doing something else it's obviously quite different.

* There are exceptions for really long words for which I allow myself an extra beat.

Edit: I feel honour bound to mention that I haven't actually used anki for a while because Japanese isn't such a big priority for me right now.

I give myself on average a couple of seconds. Unless I feel like the answer is on the tip of my tongue.. then I drag it out. This tip of the tongue feeling doesn't happen very often however. Maybe not even every session I study. I like to keep the cards going fast or it gets boring and I stop concentrating.

And as others have said - if you don't know it quickly you don't know it well enough. Well, if you get it right no matter the amount of time I suppose you do know it but usually if I have to give myself extra time I end up giving up anyway. I just waste more time trying to remember.