New feature: Randomization

2009年 10月 10日 by Peter | 17 comments

Dear Speedanki users,

I have implemented the long awaited randomization feature for the site. You can switch to a randomized view using the “view by” combobox; selecting the randomized kanji or randomized hiragana option. I have implemented this feature using random permutations, so the cards remain in the same order and you won’t miss any of them. The cards can be re-shuffled by pressing the Shuffle! button or navigating to a different folder.

  1. martin’s avatar

    martin on 2009年 10月 10日 at 05時 36分

    i think this is going to become a great site for all the people that studies nihongo, is really simple and quick to browse keep up the good work

  2. Jamie MacG’s avatar

    Jamie MacG on 2009年 10月 10日 at 14時 28分

    Yo,

    that was quick man! ご苦労さん！

    I see a lot of people want to write kanji by hand… so why don’t you buy a DS and get the kanji game, or buy a book and write it out on a pad.

  3. l.n. hammer’s avatar

    l.n. hammer on 2009年 10月 11日 at 01時 55分

    I like the randomizer — it’s great.

    There’s another new behavior that looks like it might be related: now when I view by list, when I try to click through to a kanji/hiragana (to, like, check the meaning or start my deck there) it instead brings up the list again. If this is related to the new changes, then I’d classify it as a bug; if it’s a separate feature, it’s a bad one.

  4. Ken h’s avatar

    Ken h on 2009年 10月 11日 at 06時 19分

    Loving the randomize button!

  5. ken’s avatar

    ken on 2009年 10月 11日 at 11時 23分

    when I use a different computer, the browser says there’s an error when I hit the Shuffle button.
    IE7.0.5730.13 with what looks like JRE 1.6.0_11 for java

  6. Peter’s avatar

    Peter on 2009年 10月 11日 at 16時 27分

    l.n. hammer: Thanks for reporting the bug, I have fixed it.

  7. Peter’s avatar

    Peter on 2009年 10月 12日 at 00時 54分

    ken: Fixed it.

  8. Joe’s avatar

    Joe on 2009年 10月 12日 at 04時 53分

    Congratulations on the new feature. I like the implementation, clever!

    For those of you learning for JLPT1, I’ve just added a note sharing feature to http://kanjikuma.com

    Please check it out and let me know what you all think.

    Joe

  9. Jamie MacG’s avatar

    Jamie MacG on 2009年 10月 12日 at 12時 28分

    Dear Team!

    Yo I’m loving the randomness, but could you give us another folder ‘random’ so maybe we could put say 50 cards in there and just bash away at them until they are learned.

    What do ya think?

    Also I took the JLPT level 2 this year and failed by 6%… I think. But I got a horrendous score for the third part, I got 80/200 which caused me to fail.

    Does anone know any other good sites that can help with the third section?

    Thanks yo,

    Jamie.

  10. Phil’s avatar

    Phil on 2009年 10月 14日 at 10時 23分

    Randomisation! Fantastic!

    I’ve been a fan of this website for over a year now, and always felt that was the one downfall- the fact that my brain start to remember kanji by the order they were coming rather than the kanji themselves.

    Thanks!

  11. om’s avatar

    om on 2009年 10月 21日 at 18時 23分

    Hi,

    Can any one provide the list of sentences used in this site for level 1 and for level 2.

    i got the word list which is very useful however sentense list is not available on the site.

    Please help. Time is running out

  12. om’s avatar

    om on 2009年 10月 21日 at 18時 24分

    Hi,

    Can any one please provide the list of sentences used in this site for level 1 and for level 2.

    i got the word list which is very useful however sentense list is not available on the site.
    Please send it to om_chan2003@yahoo.co.in

    Please help. Time is running out

  13. Daniel Whiteman’s avatar

    Daniel Whiteman on 2009年 10月 28日 at 11時 11分

    Hey guys!

    I wanted to help out by pointing out a mistake I found. It is regarding the word 探求 in 二級。 In it’s example sentence, you have 探究 written instead of 探求. Nothing major, but I thought it best to point it out.

    Keep up the good work!

    Daniel

  14. Noah Figg’s avatar

    Noah Figg on 2009年 11月 6日 at 05時 02分

    Great job! It makes the similar web JLPT vocab app I was working on pointless… heh heh. This is a very useful site and this feature will make it that much more useful. Keep up the good work!

  15. Stan Soehlman’s avatar

    Stan Soehlman on 2009年 11月 13日 at 07時 45分

    This is the best site to learn words simply because you put them in sentences. I think your system would make a great app for the Iphone. Is that in the works soon?

  16. Ryohei’s avatar

    Ryohei on 2009年 11月 13日 at 11時 18分

    Is it just me or are most of the level one words (from about 500 cards in) without example sentences?

  17. lawry’s avatar

    lawry on 2009年 11月 17日 at 15時 35分

    Randomized recall is tremendous. Thankyou.