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Much to the detriment of my linguistic aspirations, I admit to getting sucked up into the competitive XP rat race of Duolingo.\u00a0 My general learning and absorption of knowledge took a hit as I wanted to farm XP as fast and as much as I could so that I could dominate my opponents on the weekly league\u2019s leaderboards, and win, basically nothing for succeeding.\u00a0 And over the last few weeks, I found myself in a position to where I was finishing in the top-3 every single week, if not winning outright.<\/span><\/p>\n After cruising to an easy win in the Obsidian League, the penultimate rank before Diamond, I knew that things were going to be different once I were Diamond, and that I shouldn\u2019t assume I\u2019d be able to get a #1 ranking, not without some genuine effort.\u00a0 But after one week in Diamond, I\u2019ve come to realize that at this stage of my Duolingo journey, it\u2019s probably not worth competing, unless I happen to be placed into a vastly less competitive user pool, because after a week of actually trying to keep up, I just don\u2019t have the time to commit as the users who bettered me.<\/span><\/p>\n The shown graph is my last three weeks, and although it\u2019s not up-to-date, my first week of Diamond was actually my new career-high as far as XP accumulation went.\u00a0 Whereas my prior two weeks, I notched some 1st<\/sup> place finishes with less XP, once in Diamond, I\u2019ve been shown the realization of just how different of a game it is here.<\/span><\/p>\n It really is a blessing in disguise though, because I\u2019ve decided to not try to really compete, unless I see an opportunity.\u00a0 The good thing is that it never takes long to realize when I\u2019m in a real tryhard group, because like the time I\u2019m writing this, I hadn\u2019t even started for the week, and I was already down 3,000 XP to first place; at my very best, spamming boosts and using gems to extend them, I think I\u2019ve at the most cleared 2,400 XP in a single day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Furthermore, I\u2019ve noticed how many people who are the mega-tryhards are utilizing multiple courses, and I get the impression that people are doing this in order to farm XP, because I could just as easily start English and cruise through basic curriculum in order to just boost my numbers.\u00a0 I\u2019d wager that there are more people like that, than some real polyglots tryharding just to beat others in a meaningless contest.<\/span><\/p>\n It will be liberating and probably beneficial to my learning aspirations to take my foot off the XP farming gas, and actually focusing on the content and trying my best to learn and comprehend alternatively.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019d still love to win Diamond league one of these days, but I\u2019m already strapped for time as it is, and it\u2019s already sometimes more effort and time sacrifice than I want to make in order to get my generally 45 minutes of lessons in, and I\u2019m already making more mistakes than ever, due to how much I\u2019ve rushed through the curriculum in the last three weeks or so.<\/span><\/p>\n My day in the Diamond sun will eventually come, but for now, I\u2019m glad to have quickly learned just how overly-competitive things are at this level, and I\u2019ll bide my time more constructively and take a little more time to learn mi espa\u00f1ol a little more carefully until it\u2019s go-time.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Much to the detriment of my linguistic aspirations, I admit to getting sucked up into the competitive XP rat race of Duolingo.\u00a0 My general learning and absorption of knowledge took a hit as I wanted to farm XP as fast and as much as I could so that I could dominate my opponents on the … Continue reading Diamond League is a different game<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,45,83,52,182],"class_list":["post-50452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-observations","tag-owned","tag-tryharding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50454,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50452\/revisions\/50454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}