Chinese vocabulary challenge, May 2025

This is a vocabulary challenge meant to help you boost your learning of characters and words! Set your own goal, report progress and participate along with other students. Please read the attached article for information and inspiration!


Recent activities

22 minutes

Reviewed queue, 187 cards, got queue down to 699.

Sunday, May 25

Ben B
30 minutes

Reviewing the first 10 characters in the list for the radical 手 shǒu which means 'hand'. https://www.archchinese.com/chinese_english_dictionary.html?rad=624b

Sunday, May 25

特莎
37 minutes

Skritter session

Sunday, May 25

alexxela12345
24 minutes

Cleared halfway.

Sunday, May 25

Helmer Aslaksen
60 minutes

My anki app appears to remain blocked for a couple of days. I revisited stories on Duchinese and tried to memorise new vocab

Saturday, May 24

cytryna37
61 minutes

Tons learned.

Saturday, May 24

Cliff Larsen
35 minutes

Reviewing the first 10 characters in the list for the radical 心 xīn which means 'heart'. https://www.archchinese.com/chinese_english_dictionary.html?rad=5fc3

Saturday, May 24

特莎
4 minutes

Did not clear. Too tired.

Saturday, May 24

Helmer Aslaksen
56 minutes

Continued reviewing. Queue had built up a little. Reviewed 407, queue down to 776

Saturday, May 24

Ben B
40 minutes

30mins Skritter, 10 mins Du Chinese Flashcards

Saturday, May 24

Inge Schoorl
35 minutes

Skritter

Friday, May 23

alexxela12345
30 minutes

Skritter, reviwed extra hard words add 3 hsk2

Friday, May 23

ROSALIA D
13 minutes

Reviewing vocabulary on Anki and Skritter.

Friday, May 23

峻鸿
85 minutes

Anki servers have some problems recently. I‘ve been using duchinese to learn some vocabulary, today particularly focusing on the vocab from a story Phantom Thief Cang Hua.

Friday, May 23

cytryna37
35 minutes

Reviewing the first 10 words in the list for 山 (shān) radical which means 'mountain, hill". https://www.archchinese.com/chinese_english_dictionary.html?rad=5c71

Friday, May 23

特莎
40 minutes

Cleared Skritter

Friday, May 23

Helmer Aslaksen
65 minutes

40mins skritter queue (306 cards). 25mins Du Chinese flashcards, Duolingo and Skritter time attack. Skritter flashcards seems to work better for me than the Du Chinese ones. I nearly always mark t...

Thursday, May 22

Inge Schoorl
16 minutes

Busy day so only got a bit done (Duo, Skritter)

Thursday, May 22

Inge Schoorl
46 minutes

Skritter session

Thursday, May 22

alexxela12345
13 minutes

Reviewing more words on Anki and Skritter

Thursday, May 22

峻鸿
10 minutes

Writing out a vocabulary list for a Lee Chang-Ho tsumego book.

Thursday, May 22

峻鸿
60 minutes

Tons of practice.

Thursday, May 22

Cliff Larsen
35 minutes

Reviewing 小 (xiǎo) radical, with only 9 characters in the list (including the radical 'xiao') This character 小 (xiǎo) alone makes up 258 words • 小 (xiǎo): Small, little. • 少 (shǎo): Few, less...

Thursday, May 22

特莎
6 minutes

Reviewed Queue

Thursday, May 22

Ben B
45 minutes

Cleared Skritter

Thursday, May 22

Helmer Aslaksen

Leaderboard

RankScorePersonal goal progress
1.Cliff Larsen16.5482%
2.Inge Schoorl11.69116%
3.特莎10.69106%
4.alexxela1234510.63106%
5.Helmer Aslaksen10.02100%
6.Ben B9.55136%
7.cytryna376.020%
8.ROSALIA D5.5955%
9.峻鸿4.3186%
10.Vivi3.1728%
11.Cassandra Hafen2.010%
Linkhttps://www.hackingchinese....
Participants21
Hours reported90.19
DurationMay 10, 2025 to
May 31, 2025 (22 days)