Understanding Reading Progression & Improvement Badges
See how your reading speed and character recognition improve over time as you revisit articles, dialogues, and sentence lists.
Overview
Practice makes perfect! Whenever you re-read a passage—whether it is an article, a situational dialogue, or a sentence list—HanyuHub compares your current performance against your very first attempt.
When you make meaningful progress, we celebrate your growth by displaying Improvement Badges right at the top of the page.
What We Measure
Whenever you track a study session, HanyuHub looks at your First Baseline Attempt and compares it to your recent reading sessions using two key metrics:
- Shows the percentage drop in the time it took you to read the passage compared to your very first try.
- What it means: You are recognizing characters faster, scanning sentences more fluidly, and building true reading fluency.
- Shows the percentage drop in how often you tapped on words to peek at their English definitions or Pinyin.
- What it means: You are successfully internalizing the vocabulary and naturally relying less on hints!
You're in Control (Tracking & Discarding)
We know life happens while you're studying, so tracking is never forced or automatic. You are always in control of what gets recorded:
- No Stress Discard: If you get interrupted, distracted, or just want to start over, you can simply discard your session before saving. Discarded sessions are immediately wiped and won't affect your stats.
- Learn More: To read more about manually starting, pausing, and wrapping up your tracked sessions, take a quick look at our How to Track Study Sessions guide.
Smart Tracking (How We Keep Your Stats Fair)
Even if you do accidentally save a messy session, HanyuHub uses a few smart rules behind the scenes to make sure your progression badges stay accurate and encouraging:
1. Accident-Proof Tracking
If you accidentally start and finish a session in under 15 seconds, we simply ignore it. On the flip side, if you step away from your computer and leave a reading tab running, we automatically cap single saved sessions at 30 minutes so your stats don't get artificially inflated.
2. Grace for Distracted Days
Instead of just comparing your baseline to your most recent read, we average out your last two valid reading sessions. This means if you have one slow, saved reading session, it won't instantly ruin your long-term progress trend.
3. Celebrating Real Milestones
To keep your screen clean and focus on genuine growth, improvement badges only appear when your reading speed or lookups improve by at least 10%. We hide tiny day-to-day fluctuations so you only see badges when you've hit a real milestone.
When Will I See My First Badge?
Improvement Badges will automatically pop up in the content header once you have tracked and saved a passage at least twice (for more than 15 seconds each time) and have achieved a 10% or greater improvement!
How to Track Study Sessions (Timer, Finishing & Rating)
Learn how starting, pausing, and finishing study sessions updates your reading speed, character lookups, and word memory progress.
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