Congrats! You can actually do max Ace in a day with this method. Just find a sufficiently long passage and get 30 or so verses into it. Then when it comes up for review, edit the group so that it has no dividers. Thus, when verse 30 comes up for review, it will start with verse 1. When you see verse 1, toggle it to test instead. Do the first few verses that you've practiced a hundred times, and then click on dashboard. Go back into the review, and it will be back at verse 1. Rinse and repeat until you get 256 in a row. I was thinking that a good selection to do this with was the sermon on the mount (Matt 5-7) because the beatitudes at the beginning are pretty easy to remember and are short verses. Or if you really want to make it easy, choose 1 Thess 5:16-17 and repeat those two verses over and over.
Actually, I would think the genealogies would be a good way to get the max Ace badge. Lists are easier to memorize than you'd think. Just practice them for a couple of hours and you'd have it. Maybe faster if you link the people's names with visual stories. Then do nothing but those verses for the next week and you'd have the badge.
Ha! Sounds like a plan JD. I did experience the lower part of the U curve in my Bible memorization recently, but I think I'm on the upward slope now. I've changed my attitude away from trying to get it done with as many points and as few mistakes possible to trying to understand why God said what he said, and the importance of how he said it. Not really studying, but more of a continuous meditation as I memorize it, having a dialogue with myself and the Holy Spirit. I don't know if it is making a difference, but I look forward to doing my verses again which is nice. But life is what it is, so we'll see.
That is great advice AnnetteCN. I, too, have struggled with long chapters that require the entire chapter to be repeated constantly because of one or two verses that refuse to stick. John 6 comes to mind (71 verses). I inwardly groan every time that chapter comes up, and I've struggled not to have a bad attitude about it. I've tried breaking the chapters down into smaller chunks, but the same problem exists but on a smaller scale. Plus the chunks lose their connections to each other. I like the idea of not learning the last verse to avoid it kicking over into that mode. Better yet, I wish there was an option to disable that feature. I know you can do verse chunks instead of the whole chapter, but again, you are back to the chunking problems above.
A widow gave two small copper coins. Luke 21:2. Jesus she said she had contributed more than anyone else. Your six months or someone else's two days could possibly mean more to the Lord than anyone of us mere mortals knows.
Onfire if we both manage it we should get to the level 10 badge within a month of each other. Having your company along the way will def keep me motivated. You do have the added help of getting badges along the way. (I don’t see any reward until 2 and a half years time) Your next badge is in 3 months time. You can do it!
Ha! Sounds like a plan JD. I did experience the lower part of the U curve in my Bible memorization recently, but I think I'm on the upward slope now. I've changed my attitude away from trying to get it done with as many points and as few mistakes possible to trying to understand why God said what he said, and the importance of how he said it. Not really studying, but more of a continuous meditation as I memorize it, having a dialogue with myself and the Holy Spirit. I don't know if it is making a difference, but I look forward to doing my verses again which is nice. But life is what it is, so we'll see.
You did it! I am so happy for you! When I first joined the site, I decided I was going to do three years because no one had ever done it before. I'll admit, I used to check everyone on the leader list hoping that each of you would miss a day so I could be the first. But then, as the days drug on, I realized how difficult it is to do it. And why no one has ever done it before. Then my attitude started to change. I began to feel bad when someone at the top would miss a day, because I knew how painful that must be. But all along, you just kept chugging toward the goal. And oddly enough, I found myself legitimately getting excited for my "competition" because it dawned on me that you guys aren't my competition. We're all on the same team. Needless to say, when I saw you got it this morning my heart leaped! I am a relative noob to this site at close to 6 months, but I know full well how hard it is with the pandemic, and the holidays, and the vacations (not to mention the days you just don't feel like logging in) to keep adding a verse every day. One day I almost forgot to login because I got busy and almost lost my streak for nothing, but i digress. I can't even imagine doing all that for three years! Well, I can now! I don't know if I'll ever meet you up there at the top, but at least now I know its possible! So happy! So proud!
When I was doing my senior paper on ISIS, I found that many of the people who were the leaders of ISIS and Al Qaeda had memorized the whole Quran. That kind of blew my mind. I started doing some research online and I found that tons of people have done it. There's even a title for those who have done it (Hafiz). Yet nowhere online could I find people who had memorized the NT, which is about the same size as the Quran. Since that day, I made it my goal not only to memorize the NT, but also to make it easier for others to do so. This website is just one of many tools I am using as I develop that strategy.
As far as I can see, each individual verse (or set of four verses) within a selection set has its own spaced repetition timer. I have been all through the site, and if there is a place to adjust those timers I cannot find it. What I do is link those verses together in my mind. For example, I kept getting Phil 4:13 and Phil 4:19 mixed up. So now, whenever either verse comes up, I say them both together. You can also try making a mental image of the verse and associating that image with the reference. For instance, with Phil 4:13 (I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me), you might imagine a musclebound Christ with bulging eyes (I) and no shirt on holding a golf club in one hand (fore!) and thirteen Pharisees in the other. Once you link that image to the verse, you'll remember it from then on. The more absurd or disgusting the image is, the more likely it is to stick in your brain. I still remember the Greek word pros (to, toward, or with) from years ago because I imagined a prostitute riding with me in a tow truck, and it stuck with me [don't judge, it worked!]. Emotions also makes things stick. I remember I struggled with the Hebrew word shalom (peace), and nothing I tried would make it stick. So the next time I saw the word and missed it, I said to myself "What are you, stupid? You have seen shalom 30 times and you still can't remember it?! You'll have no peace until you remember it. The next time you see shalom, you will remember it is peace!" And the next time I did.