Comments | boshvark: The study regimen

boshvark

The study regimen

Sep 05, 2011 13:46

I think I might have mentioned that I'm sick of not knowing the dictionary. I really dislike when an opponent plonks down a bingo and I have to wonder about whether I should know it or not. The obvious solution is, of course, to learn every single word, so that's what I'm going to do. (OWL for now.)

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quinquennia September 5 2011, 20:40:54 UTC

I've found it handy to do this. Whenever I miss a question, it gets asked again after 20 questions. Just long enough for you to have forgotten it if you weren't paying attention. I think it's a really good thing to do.

jalapic September 5 2011, 21:57:08 UTC

i like reading about others' studying habits. i think everyone has to develop their own methods.

this has been my system for the last month for learning Collins. i'm no way trying to learn all the dictionary - just the stuff that will get me competitive.

i've gone through every 7 and 8 letter word up to 12k in probability or playability. If i got them right first time (and not just guessing, but i knew they were words) then i cross them off the list. The ones that i don't know i put into the cardbox and quiz myself on them by starting with a 100 words and adding another 100 per day. Those that I get wrong each day I requiz myself on that day until i get them right. Some words i need four or five passes before i get them right, but i find the process useful.

e.g. by doing this i kept guessing that AABDEINR was ABRAINED*. Now that i do this when i see ABRAINED* i know to keep looking for a CSW word.

i'm trying to do the same for the smaller words but they always are hard to get down.

jalapic September 5 2011, 22:00:20 UTC

whoops, in case any CSW players read this - i just realised that my example is a 2012 addition.

boshvark September 6 2011, 19:30:00 UTC

This sounds very similar to what I'm doing, and I like it! I think the repetition for the difficult ones, especially for the ones where you often guess a phony word, is crucial.

spherulitic September 6 2011, 12:22:19 UTC

Am I one of the few people who (strives to) do everything due in the cardbox every day, and has like almost 30K words in it between cardbox 0 and 12? It seems everyone has their own ways of using the CB.

In any case, stop studying and get coding, because I really would like to bring my iPad to study on the plane to Poland rather than my laptop. :)

Someday I want to brain-dump suggestions to you for cool cardbox features -- I've coded a bunch of things in shell scripts that would be great to have in Zyz itself.

boshvark September 6 2011, 16:06:06 UTC

Oh, don't worry, I'm coding! It's what I do with pretty much all my free time except that hour in the morning. :-) I wouldn't plan on having a fully functional iPad quiz by WSC, but I'll try to get you at least something by then. You'll still probably want to bring your laptop.

I would love to receive your brain dump! Once the iPhone app is out in the world, I'll be turning my attention back to the desktop program, and I have many improvements I want to make.