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Evening Web Quiz Database

The Evening Web Quiz Database allows you to practice different styles of rote memorization with a blazing pace by showing you the questions you want, in the format you want, and adapting to your progress as you go.

Libraries

FAQ

What is a Library?

A Library is written in a special JSON dialect described in the GitHub repository. It groups questions into a hierarchical structure for flexibility in both design and use. If you read the quickstart or just look at a file closely, you can get started at writing your own. There are plenty of features but you don't need many for a powerful library.

The defaults settings are pretty good. By default, questions are chosen to keep you challenged but without overwhelming you, and are presented in the manner the author recommends.

How do I use this tool?

Click on one of the links above to load a library. You'll see the name of the library next to a "+" button and check box. You can use the "+" buttons to expand categories and explore what you can learn with the library! Check the box next to any groups you want. Don't care about the nuances? Just click the checkbox next to the library name and get everything. You can customize the settings if you wish then click "Begin" for the first question.

What do all the settings mean?

Random mode shows you all available question at the same frequency. Adaptive mode prefers to show you questions that you often get wrong, reducing the amount of time you spend on questions you've already learned. Quiz mode shows you all of the questions, then scores you, and shows them again on a loop.

Windowing prevents you from being overwhelmed early on by limiting how many questions you see. It slowly adds more questions as you master old ones to hold the difficulty about constant. Shuffling just randomizes the order questions are asked (in quiz mode) or the order in which they are added to the window (with windowing).

Preferred Format is the way you'd like to see the questions, either multiple-choice or verbatim (free text). If a question doesn't support your preferred format, it will be displayed using its default format. Don't get the impression that this will affect the difficulty of the experience. If you have windowing enabled, the difficulty will be the same no matter what! You will progress a bit faster with multiple-choice but it won't feel easier.

Have you considered making the site not shit?

My greatest hope would be to fully incorporate a library editor into the site and host people's submissions! Then nobody would ever have to learn my esoteric JSON dialect, and people could use this site to make all kinds of funky learning utilities and share them. There's a lot you can't do with rote memorization, but there's hardly anything you can do without it. A resource that makes the process as simple and easy as possible would - I think - help a great many people trying to learn all kinds of interesting things!

Any tips?

Just a couple for now...