So true. The community on this site is essential to its success. It is kind of difficult to talk to people who aren't going through it to get excited about it with you. Here, however, it seems like everyone knows your pain and your joy as you work through passages. A true blessing.
Onfire247, I have experienced the same thing. I am working on memorizing the whole Gospel of Mark, and theoretically, it should be easier to get this particular achievement because of the narrative flow of story. However, once I get 10 or so verses in without an error, the perfection pressure builds. If I am using the single letter option, I make silly single letter errors. If I am using the whole word option, I start to rush and make mistakes. I was surprised I made it to level 8. The pressure is off for a while. I won’t be 256 verses into Mark for a while yet.
It just depends on the verses really. Doing it with random verses is impossible if you type out all the words. It might be possible with the pick the word option, but I've never messed with that option. If I had it to do over again, I probably would have picked the Beatitudes.
I find that I make silly mistakes. Even after doing Psalm 91 something like 30 times in a row over several hours to get Ace 9, I still made a mistake on the chapter the next day.
Onfire247, I have experienced the same thing. I am working on memorizing the whole Gospel of Mark, and theoretically, it should be easier to get this particular achievement because of the narrative flow of story. However, once I get 10 or so verses in without an error, the perfection pressure builds. If I am using the single letter option, I make silly single letter errors. If I am using the whole word option, I start to rush and make mistakes. I was surprised I made it to level 8. The pressure is off for a while. I won’t be 256 verses into Mark for a while yet.
I tried using the single letter option, and I found that my mistakes increased exponentially. That combined with having lower reminders and less mistakes before it triggers a red fail made me abandon it altogether. Maybe if I had started out that way from the beginning it would be better, but I suspect my muscle memory and typing speed will prevent me from using that option again.
Also there are times when I find it appropriate to refresh the screen. For example, if I accidentally hit the space bar while in the middle of typing the correct word, I may refresh. The same is true if I misspell the correct word and the system doesn't auto correct it. Finally, if the system glitches and jumps ahead, duplicating the word you just typed in the next box which triggers an automatic miss. In my run to 256, the system jumped ahead 4-5 times.
Onfire247, don’t let people get you down for how you got a trophy. All of the trophy stuff is ancillary benefit to the real joy of being solid on verses and passages. Plus, I have noticed that even when I know passages solidly, the occasional typo comes up and wrecks a streak. So, your focus is accurately and duly merited! Keep it up!