AceCentre / morse-learn

Learn morse code with visual and audio hints
http://morse-learn.acecentre.net
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Some letters repeat more often than the others (Question) #5

Open willwade opened 4 years ago

willwade commented 4 years ago

See:

https://github.com/googlecreativelab/morse-learn/issues/9

Set of letters {A, E, H, I, M, N, O, S, U} repeat at near about 5-6 times the frequency of other letters such as {B, C, F, G, P, Q, V, W, Y, Z,}. Infact the moment letter Z was first shown, and I entered the code, the learning sequence ended for having reached the count of 26 letters and switched over to the numbers.

I'm not sure if this is true (I havent personally got this far) - but if it is we need to fix this

Ajedi32 commented 3 years ago

I've noticed this as well. The game doesn't end immediately after reaching Z, but it's still sooner than I'd expect.

I suspect that whatever system it uses to judge whether you've learned each letter isn't granular enough. It seems to assume you've "learned" a letter after you get it right a few times, and doesn't do a good job of systemically revisiting recently learned letters to make sure you haven't forgotten them, or of avoiding wasting time on letters you've already gotten right dozens of times with no mistakes.

A suspect making the game track progress statistics a bit more granularly (#38) might help with this.