How long does it take to do Anki reviews with 20 new cards daily in the long term?

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1. I’ll answer in terms of cards, not minutes. I’ve been learning 22, sometimes 25 cards a day for almost two years now. My daily review ranges between 140-180 cards (excluding new cards), and it’s been that way for the past year (actually, the amount to review is slowly but surely rising, I never used to see 180 cards back in the day, now that’s relatively common).

2. If you go with 20 new cards a day, you’ll end up at around 200 reviews a day.

   Try to get them down to 10~15 seconds per card. There’s an option to auto-flip cards, and another one to select an answer automatically after a time limit.

   Do remember that Anki aids recall. It doesn’t teach you to understand new things.

3. 20 cards typically takes me 40 minutes over the long term.

4. +10 takes me 40-50 minutes daily. idk how people are doing that with +20.

5. 20 a day would probably put you at an hour or so max.

6. I think it’s hard for ppl to answer this because it’s fairly normal to change your new card count as you go along. When your reviews get difficult to manage, you lower your new card count until they’re under control again. If a section of words is fairly easy, you might do more new cards. If your other studies (or life in general) is taking up more mental power than usual, you’ll drop your new card count.

   Plus it *really* depends how long you spend on each card. The difference between 10 and 15 seconds per card grows quite a bit when we’re talking about over 100 reviews.

   I will say I liked to keep my review count to less than 100 and it would take me maybe 15-20 minutes to get through that including new cards and any “again”s. But how many new cards I do changes as I need it to.

7. Typically 100-120 total cards takes me like 45 minutes and I hate it at this point tbh

8. For me I used to do add sometimes more than 50 new cards daily from reading light novels…and as far as review I would do 250-500 cards daily (depending on my mood)

   Cant speak for 20 daily, but at least at me rate I got to the point where I barely use anki for Japanese anymore after the 2 year mark….overall it would take 1.5 to 3 hours of just anki daily….but it wasnt dedicated time of just doing anki and nothing else…I would do it on the side while I was watching tv or cleaning the house or working

9. That’s all on you buddy. Anki moves at the pace you memorize at. It’s a tool for you. Use it to make sure you learn as much as you can, but it’s pace is set by your pace.

10. Its very dependent on you. If you dont change you can expect it to go up very gradully, but you can also expect to get faster and higher retention with familiarity. I only manage to add around 20 cards on average per day, my time has plummeted because I just got better.

11. I’ve been doing 30 (15 new words, j->e and e->j for each) for about half a year and I fairly consistently have 150 – 180 reviews per day. With the new cards I usually end up with about 250 total which according to the stats takes me 16 minutes on average.

    But that of course doesn’t include the time I spend googling what the difference between certain words is because at this point I feel like all I’m getting is synonyms or at least cards with the same translation on the back. For instance, before changing the cards myself, my deck used to have more than 10 different cards that just said „order“ on them with translations ranging from 順to 秩序 to 命じる to 注文 without any meaningful distinction on the cards themselves which is a issue that also also increases my review load quite a bit sometimes because I keep failing these cards because I don’t happen to guess the right translation or miss a word when listing everything a card could mean in my head.

    Anyway, sorry for the tangent. So overall it’s about 20-30 minutes per day for me, depending on how many words I have to look up, it might be about the same or a bit less for you, if you have 20 individual new words every day and no need to constantly switch to google.