Are you familiar with the U shaped curved involved with starting any new endeavor?
At the top of left side of the U, you are at the beginning of your goal. In this stage, everything is all exciting. Every day is a new adventure pushing you further and further down your goal.
As the U starts to curve toward the bottom, here you begin to realize the cost involved with your goal. You still have excitement, but it is becoming tempered by the cost. Here is where thoughts of quitting begin.
As the U flattens, here is where your initial energy has been consumed by the cost of the goal. It is no longer new and exciting, but instead a chore to push through. It is here where most people give up on the goal. Instead, they go from new goal to new goal, never accomplishing anything.
For those people who push past the bottom of the U, the U starts to curve up. It is here where you know the cost, but you've made your peace with it. You start thinking about the goal in new ways, which begins to give you a new (but different) kind of excitement.
Eventually, the U straightens entirely. Here, you are starting to see the results of your hard work. You look back on what you've accomplished so far, and how you pushed through the hard times. These accomplishments propel you forward with a new level of excitement that is even better than the initial excitement. These are the people that eventually reach their goal.
It sounds to me like you are either approaching the U, or are hanging at the bottom of it. I'm right there with you. If I am wrong, please forgive my projecting on you.
I do not recommend you give up. In my experience "taking a break" or "trying something a different way" almost always ends with quitting. You've already built up the habit, and you're progressing so far. You're solidifying your understanding of Scripture even if it feels some days like there is no purpose to it. Don't quit! Quitting is only hard the first time. Every time after that, it becomes easier and easier. Instead, perhaps re-evaluate your goals.
Perhaps, instead, you should view your memorization a different way. Perhaps it is unfair to expect yourself to memorize a book with one hundred percent perfection? After all, none of the current translations are memorization friendly (which is odd, honestly, given that the ancient Jewish culture was so focused on oral tradition). Like you, I struggle with reciting the verses with perfection. I do not, however, struggle with understanding the flow of the story enough to get my message across when it comes up. Indeed, I find that I explain the Bible better when I paraphrase the unimportant parts (e.g., "he said" vs. "he answered", etc.) while adding perfection to the dialogue being spoken (i.e., the important parts). Had I not pushed through that pain while re-evaluating my goals, I would have quit a long time ago. But since I persevered (James 1:25), I can now quote half of John when the need arises.
You might also consider slowing down a bit. You are moving quickly, but perhaps you are setting yourself up for burn out. It might be a good idea to take your foot off the pedal a bit to give yourself time to catch your breath with the older material. But please don't leave. We need you here, and you need to be here as well.
It is indeed 24 hours. If you are interested in getting it, I suggest you write down the twenty four hours somewhere, and just cross them off when you do it on one of those hours. Honestly, it is easier than you would think if you track it.
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."
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.
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.
Welcome! I use Anki as well, but not the mobile version. I used to use Quizlet forever, but I found that it became tedious going through every flash card when I usually only needed to touch a few I couldn't remember. Anki works like this website in that it uses spaced repetition, so you only see the flash cards that you are about to forget. So instead of seeing all 4000 Biblical Greek flash cards a day, I would see between 25-75 flash cards a day.
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.
If you click on my name, at the bottom it shows my stats, then my groups. Below that, you'll see a link called "Find more groups to join." Clicking on that will show the group search button. You can type in words there and hopefully find a group you like. If you just search for the letter "e" you'll find 549 to choose from. Hopefully, in the future they will add a list somewhere. It would also be nice if we could sort them by activity or number of members.
Awesome! We're glad to have you. If you have any questions about the website, feel free to ask. We have a group setup for it actually. You might also consider joining the Leaderboard group if competing motivates you. You can find those groups by clicking on my name.