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.
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.
I never recite what I learn here elsewhere. I start off my day by doing my new verse, then my reviews. Then I move on with my busy life. I will occasionally focus on one section of Scripture if I feel it is not really sticking and I have extra time one day, but usually it is just once a day. The reviews alone take up about an hour a day for me. When I first started I was doing my reviews 4-5 times a day, but that just got overwhelming once I crossed the 300 verse mark.
I've tried lots of different memorization styles since starting here. One of my favorites at the beginning was to memorize a set of five new verses through recitation before I even touched the website. I would also recite those when I was in the shower. I thought initially that it was improving my retention, but after the two week interval mark, those chapters were no more memorized than the rest. None of my other experiments have improved my retention either. In fact, there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. Some verses stick, and others don't no matter what I do.
I think I'm going to create a translation of the Bible that is easier to memorize than what's available now. I'm fairly certain after memorizing nine chapters of John that ease of memory played no part in the translation process. On the contrary, sometimes in my darker days I think the authors of John intentionally tried to make the book impossible to memorize. It is probably not their fault, honestly. That just seems to be the way they wrote back then, and the translators are just doing the best they can with what they have.
Each verse has a number of points assigned to it based upon the number of words. If you get a verse 100% right, there is a 50% bonus added on top of that. Each group has a leaderboard attached to it for those who want to track the points. If you click on my name you will see a Leaderboard Group for All. This is the group most people join if keeping track of points matters. There is also a group for people who have achieved two million points where most of the long time members reside that you can join once you've gotten that many points. Most of us around here just use points to motivate each other toward learning more scriptures. Some choose to ignore it entirely, however. Either way, getting 100k points means you've been around for a week or two consistently, so congrats for giving this website a try!