@JoeDaStriker - the weekly champion is really only attainable by a very small group of people, so it isn't motivating for the vast majority of users. So it was removed, to give room for other things that are more motivating.
@dadster - it is a bit more intolerant yes. The old logic was not always helpful - for example, you were allowed 1 spelling mistake on 2 letter words, which meant you could easily type the wrong two letter word - "of" instead of "on", for example - and be marked "correct".
So I have tightened it for that case, and a bit for longer words, but I didn't think I had tightened it much. Perhaps I have tightened it across the threshhold where it makes a difference. If you continue to find it a problem, let me know, and I can change it to be closer to how it was before. I'm also having to accommodate other languages (we know have a Turkish Bible), and due to the way the language works tighter is better for that case. I may need to split it out to have different levels for different languages.
@graetzmi23 yes, I've done a lot of internal work needed for multi-language support. More specifically I've added a Turkish translation, but that's currently in beta testing, so not visible to most people. There are lots of challenges with new languages, though, especially Turkish, and some things are difficult to implement at all e.g. see https://bitbucket.org/learnscripture/learnscripture.net/issues/140/method-for-doing-choose-from-word-list
AnnetteCN and graetzmi23, could you send me a message via the contact form, with as much detail as possible about these problems, including what browser and device you are using? I've made some big internal changes recently, and some user interface ones. Apologies for the breakages!