Daily lesson limit

HanziHero has a built-in daily lesson limit, which prevents you from doing more than, at its max, 20-40 lessons a day. Currently this limit is configurable with four primary options and four temporary options (Jump Start mode).

This limit is in place to prevent you from having too many reviews pile up, and from having too many newly learned items.

Preventing review overload

Our spaced repetition system schedules reviews in advance according to each item’s srs stage. Items in earlier stages are scheduled closer together, reflecting your need to review them more frequently since they are relatively new to you.

To demonstrate the ease in being overloaded, let’s assume you do 10 a day and answer all of your reviews correctly, allowing each item to progress a single stage. Below, we show the total number of lessons and reviews per day in this ideal scenario. Each column corresponds to a group of items that were learned in the same initial lesson.

Day1: 10 = 10
Day2: 10 + 10 = 20
Day3: 10 + 10 + 10 = 30
Day4: 0  + 10 + 10 + 10 = 30
Day5: 10 + 0  + 10 + 10 + 10 = 40
Day6: 0  + 10 + 0  + 10 + 10 + 10 = 40
Day7: 0  + 0  + 10 + 0  + 10 + 10 + 10 = 40
Day8: 10 + 0  + 0 +  10 + 0 +  10 + 10 + 10 = 50

By the 8th day, the total number of lessons and reviews you are doing is 50, or approximately five times the number of lessons you do a day. This simulation also assumes you get 100% of your reviews correct, which will not be the case. The actual number of total reviews and lessons on the 8th day would be higher in practice.

If there was no limit in place and you were to do 50 lessons a day, you would end up having over 250 total items to learn or review by the 8th day!

How many reviews can I expect after a month?

We’ve ran some numbers to roughly approximate how many reviews you’ll get over a couple of months. This is assuming an 85% correct rate within your reviews.

• At 5 lessons a day, you’ll get 45 reviews in a month and 55 reviews in a couple of months.
• At 10 lessons a day, you’ll get 90 reviews in a month and 110 reviews in a couple of months.
• At 15 lessons a day, you’ll get 130 reviews in a month and 170 reviews in a couple of months.
• At 20 lessons a day, you’ll get 150 reviews in a month and 200 reviews in a couple of months.

The above is the number of reviews per day you would have to process. As you can imagine, doing 200 reviews per day can be pretty intense on-top of all of the other things keeping you busy!

Jump Start mode

You will notice there are an additional four options after “Intense” all labelled as “Jump Start”.

The purpose of these temporary limits is to speed up onboarding for more experienced learners of Chinese, or those just excited to dive into HanziHero.

It will fallback to the Intense setting after you get to rank 3.

It’s recommended to pair Jump Start with the Unlock when dependent items are learned character unlocking setting. This will allow you to get to characters as quickly as possible.