

Every day I would do the hard practice on all the easy lessons. Using the app, you can choose between regular practice and hard practice.I could generate 17 points per minute with this approach. The highest value story I had unlocked was 28 points, and while the first run through took a while, after that I could do it while watching TV and not really paying attention. In general, the stories are great ways to make points quickly.I timed myself on various parts of the app to figure out where I could make the most points per minute.Go in with guns blazing looking like you have a few screws loose and people are less likely to want to play with you. I think I probably could have done it with fewer points if I had gone hard straight from the beginning.The league finishes around UTC midnight on Sunday and I won with about 4200 points. Two other people had the same idea so I continued to put in 800-1000 points per day until finally they both gave up and my final day was pretty slow. A normal day for me is 100 which is enough to stay comfortably in the diamond league so it’s more than most people do but far from enough to win the league. Then I pounced and did about 600 points in one day. I hung around in the league for weeks until I finally saw a week where it didn’t look like anyone was running away with the game. But I have a completionist itch that needed to be scratched so here’s how I did it…

Other than getting the achievement, there’s literally no value in doing this. There’s one achievement for getting first place in the diamond league which is the highest league in the app. The app is, obviously, centered around progressing through lessons, but along the way, you collect points and achievements. This isn’t an ad, but if you are interested in trying it out, the app is free or you can pay to get rid of ads and support their cause. I feel like I’d struggle to communicate at a 2-year-old level, but progress is progress and it’s a better way to spend time on my phone than playing games or reading the news. The scoring model has changed significantly, but the basic premise applies of doing some analysis of the different ways that you can score points and figuring out the best return for your time.įor the last seven months, I’ve been taking Spanish lessons every single day via the DuoLingo app. It’s worth noting that this post was written in May of 2021.
