Hey, Symota. Please do us all a favor and quickly add a verse to your list (any verse). On the leaderboard, it says you have started 666 verses, and I think it would be helpful if you could quickly push to at least 667. BTW, I say this with all due respect to the time, energy, effort, etc., behind learning so much scripture.
Thanks, JD3 and Symota! It was great today. I was teaching Sunday School (OT survey) and broke into a Mark quote and it just rolled out. It is moments like that that make you glad you took the time and effort to commit it to memory. Of course, the personal meditative value is also super helpful.
Congrats, TMG! If you ever find a verse or set of verses that you can't seem to memorize because the interval is too long, you can miss every word on your next interval and reset that verse to 0%. Doing this starts over the verse, but it does not break any Consistent learner streaks. If you don't want to go back to zero, you can miss less words for a smaller reduction.
I've started putting the last verse of every chapter back to zero so that I don't have to review the whole chapter when one verse is due. I think AnnetteCN recommended not starting the last verse to accomplish the same thing, but I find that clogs my Dashboard. Doing it my way makes it disappear from the Dashboard.
Congratulations, TheMoviegoer, on reaching this 8M milestone! 👏🏽
onfire247, I’m wondering if your last verse goes back to zero, when the chapter comes up again for testing, will the chapter be placed in the “Learn” section or in the “Review” section of the dashboard?
Thanks, JD3 and Symota! It was great today. I was teaching Sunday School (OT survey) and broke into a Mark quote and it just rolled out. It is moments like that that make you glad you took the time and effort to commit it to memory. Of course, the personal meditative value is also super helpful.
It goes into the Review section. I have three chapters sitting in review with one verse due. It still clogs the screen, but I personally read the whole chapter and then do the verse at whatever interval it gives me. Since most of my reviews for those chapters are at two months or longer, I suspect that I shouldn't have to reset that verse again until they are mastered. This might also be a good way to keep a mastered chapter active so that you see it more often than one year, but I've yet to master a verse yet.
Thanks TheMoviegoer for sharing about your successful Sunday School lesson. It’s great to be able to see the practical application of your daily memory work in action.
Thanks onfire247 for this additional clarification, this is helpful to know.
I'd like to add another possible "tip" to the mix. What I've been doing lately is this: If I have a passage where for example, there is one weak verse at 50% while the rest are 55-65%, I add that weak verse as an individual verse. What happens then is I can test on that individual verse when it comes due and afterward the passage will disappear from the review queue, until more are due.
The downside of this method is that I don't test very well on individual verses ... without having any context at all, I usually don't score very well, but at least it's "pushed forwards" toward the rest of the pack, without me needing to go through all the verses of the entire passage.
Odd. I am not experiencing that at all. For example, I created a verse set for Galatians 5:13-26, which I've been doing for a while so my interval is pretty long. But I wanted to be able to specifically target the fruits of the spirit verse, so I added Galatians 5:22-23 as an individual verse. I expected that the individual verses would mirror the three month interval of the set, but instead, the individual verses seem to have its own intervals. They also show up as a separate set of verses in a person's progress stats.
I hope it's helpful. In general I like this idea, but my ability to remember the verse really suffers when there's no context .... but, have a good evening! (where I am, it's evening)
Hey, Symota. Please do us all a favor and quickly add a verse to your list (any verse). On the leaderboard, it says you have started 666 verses, and I think it would be helpful if you could quickly push to at least 667. BTW, I say this with all due respect to the time, energy, effort, etc., behind learning so much scripture.
Ha, ha, TheMoviegoer! The day is fast approaching though when those remaining on the earth will need to heed Scripture’s warning in Revelation 13.
Thanks, joosep, for sharing your insights. Individual verses are more challenging without the context, but since the verse comes from a chapter one would be working on anyway, I can see how it would be helpful.
Speaking of 666, I find it interesting that John 6:66 talks about his disciples turning away from Christ: "After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him."
Wow. I love John, too. But you als hit on something very important. It is much easier to work on verses, passages, books, etc., that you have specific motivation. I was motivated by two compelling factors. 1. I have taught Mark twice in the last three years, and I find it very compelling. 2. I saw a video about scripture memorization wherein the speaker memorized 1 Corinthians. He opened the service with a little bit of background, and then he just spoke 1 Corinthians. It felt Alice, relevant, compelling, and I could go on and on. I thought, I would like to be able to do that.
Honestly, I spend 1 hour in the morning. I click through reviews, and only really pay attention to the testing part. For example, when I create a new set (about 5-7 verses), the review can sometimes include up to 50 total verses. I can breeze through them because I have been so thorough in the testing. Then, I’ll jump in periodically throughout the day and just test a set. All told, I’m putting in around 2 hours total - 1 hour in the morning, then scatter study throughout the rest of the day. I don’t know if it is dedication or neurosis. Honestly, I have made a goal of memorizing Mark, and I am afraid l’ll quit before I get there so I am plowing forward as best I can.
I'm amazed at how many reviews you are able to do a day. How much time are you spending doing this? Three or four hours a day? You have some serious dedication.
Honestly, I spend 1 hour in the morning. I click through reviews, and only really pay attention to the testing part. For example, when I create a new set (about 5-7 verses), the review can sometimes include up to 50 total verses. I can breeze through them because I have been so thorough in the testing. Then, I’ll jump in periodically throughout the day and just test a set. All told, I’m putting in around 2 hours total - 1 hour in the morning, then scatter study throughout the rest of the day. I don’t know if it is dedication or neurosis. Honestly, I have made a goal of memorizing Mark, and I am afraid l’ll quit before I get there so I am plowing forward as best I can.
I see. That makes sense. I started the same way with John. I'm about to wrap up the 9th chapter, but I've jumped around to whatever caught my fancy. Honestly, I have an easier time remembering the stuff I want to memorize than doing John straight through.
Wow. I love John, too. But you als hit on something very important. It is much easier to work on verses, passages, books, etc., that you have specific motivation. I was motivated by two compelling factors. 1. I have taught Mark twice in the last three years, and I find it very compelling. 2. I saw a video about scripture memorization wherein the speaker memorized 1 Corinthians. He opened the service with a little bit of background, and then he just spoke 1 Corinthians. It felt Alice, relevant, compelling, and I could go on and on. I thought, I would like to be able to do that.