Is it possible to learn 10,000 flash cards in one day?

[Jessica4585]

Hello everyone!
I’ve been trying to learn a deck of over 10,000 cards on Anki for a while now and to tell you the truth, it’s too long and slow and I’d like to know if you have a method to learn 10,000 flash cards in the same day.
but do you have a method to learn them massively? I’ve heard that medical students use Anki a lot and learn a lot of flash cards a day.

[CharleyPham]

I have learned around 1-2k cards in the same day a few times, but 10k is quite a bit.

For starters that(10k) is around 10 cards a minute for 17 hours.
6 seconds a card. Given you are going to process the cards front, if it takes you longer than 6 seconds thats not going to work.

The average length of a sentence can be 15-20 words. In short, 20 words in 6 seconds is feasible enough (200wpm), you can read at 400wpm to have 3 seconds to answer the question. The problem with answering is that you need to retrieve information. If this retrieval is short, say less than a sentence in length too, in theory you could do it. It tends to take a lot of precise memorizing so you can retrieve something quicker than you can read it.

If however the front or back of the card is longer than a sentence you are going to need to work on either your reading and comprehension speed or the ability to retrieve information quickly enough, otherwise it wouldn’t really be feasible.

Now the real problem is that you are going to need to re-answer the cards in a spaced repetition format. It’s possible you will meet the same card 5-6 times. If it takes you the same time, everytime, this is not going to be possible really without being 5-6x faster at everything mentioned. It’s likely to take you half the time from my experimental data and even then it’s not very much feasible, would be immensely difficult.

Now finally the greatest problem is the lack of rest. If you spend your time answering questions non-stop your brain will get tired, and become unable to process the cards properly, this is particularly true at a high rate. While I am not sure if you can make your brain durable enough to avoid this entirely, if you did a pomodoro style division, 5/6ths of your time will be spent on a break (in my experience with flash cards that is not enough).

Added note, it’s possible when doing this that you can recognize the answer from the sight of the sentence, but if you retrieve the answer in this way, you will tend to overgeneralize it, so similar questions would throw you off. In short shallow processing is not really a good idea as a boost as much as it may appear to work.

Putting it more concretely. At sentence level front and back, you need a reading and comprehension speed of around 1200wpm and a retrieval rate that exceeds this, along with a mind that never fatigues for 17 hours straight (20 to be on the safer side considering pomodoro too). Your memory needs to be perfect enough for a single recall(which is feasible with good spaced repetition). Fingers that are for 20 hours not going to make an error on the next button, and press it in time, never slowing down.

If this is your first encounter with the information, rather than a review to begin with. I don’t think you would be able to do this unless you were at least 3-4 times faster than mentioned. I won’t detail why, because that has to do with methods I haven’t shared on the forum.

Doing this everyday for more than a month is going to take an immense optimization on your psychological state, to an extent that likely no one on the planet currently knows about.

From data I can gather about other medical students, the average seems to be around 100 cards a day (including creation) while the upper end tends to be around 900 (including creation), 3k(not including creation), just based off of posts on forums.

A tip for making flashcards more quickly from experience is to get a gaming mouse and put relevant shortcuts (shift+windows+s), ctrl v, ctrl c, ctrl enter, onto your mouse so you don’t lose many seconds (it piles up) on simple copy paste options (particularly for images). In an academic environment, while I was speaking about sentence level front and back. It occasionally tends to be more which in my opinion you should reduce and sometimes it turns out to be less, for example ‘what is the definition of term x’ : x is ____ that ___ in ____, is hardly 20 word sentence level.

[ArnoldJennings]

Hello there! Learning 10,000 flashcards in one day is a daunting task. While it may be possible, it would require tremendous focus and dedication, and there may be more effective ways to retain the information long-term. Instead, consider breaking up the deck into smaller sections and setting a more reasonable daily goal. I do that using https://www.worksheetsgo.com/communi...s-flash-cards/ with ready cards. Additionally, consider using active recall techniques and spaced repetition to reinforce the information in your memory. Good luck with your studies!