If you’ve successfully cleared a backlog, please post your story here.
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Do you mean finishing learning everything that HH has for curriculum (to date) or just having an insane queue of reviews and then finally finishing it?
When you miss a few days (or months) and have a massive review backlog and can’t remember anything and everyone hates you
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I guess I don’t have the worst story. I’ve never reached 600 in my queue before. But a couple months ago I was at 550, and actually a couple days ago I was also at 570 ish? The thought of having leftovers for the next few days is not appealing! So, I just knocked it out in batches throughout the day. I’d do at least 75 at a time, but some rounds I’d do 200 at a time.
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Personally, I think I just haven’t found the best keyboard for myself. My personal computer, the keys are slightly too far apart. My work computer (maybe not so) ironically has the best keyboard so far. I have an extension keyboard, which is all cutesy, but the keys are slightly too close together lol. Anyways, this just adds to my frustration. Luckily, I just do my reviews when I’m alone so no one can see how insane I get 
, ESPECIALLY when it comes to having 300+ reviews.
What’s crazy is that it doesn’t feel like it’s taking that long, but once you factor in having to redo mistakes, I typically see having 100 reviews as taking about 20 minutes or so? On a day-to-day basis, I have about 150-250 reviews so I’m kind of used to it.
Posted in my study log a while back but had a backlog >1000 that I cleared in two big sessions. Honestly just gotta decide you want to do it and just do it.
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Basically I got to the end of HSK6 in December and took a short break - which turned into a long break. I simply haven’t been able to get back into the habit, especially with over 3500 reviews due. I’ve been pretty good this month at just doing 15 minutes a day, which is pathetic, but it’s a much longer 15 minutes when you can’t remember anything. I’m getting through less than 30 reviews a day this way, and it’s absolute torture. I’m wondering if I should just brute force it, like you suggested, but, ugh…
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Yup… I know what you mean. Just gotta saddle up and gett’er done!
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