Cards not following correct learning interval steps

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Hi everyone, I’m relatively experienced using Anki for its more basic features, but have really been having some issues with cards that don’t following their correcting learning intervals after I first see them.

What I mean is, I will see a new card, and select “Good” (for which my first step is 10min). However, I will see this card again and instead of “Good” having a step of 1d (my next step), it will still have a lapse of 10min. This won’t happen to all of my cards, but only some of them, seemingly randomly. Occasionally, if I hit “Good” enough it will change to the correct 1d interval, but not always. This is really slowing me down as I keep seeing the same learning cards over and over.

I will list the relevant settings below- I have not changed these settings while using this new deck with cards in the learning phase, which is what I thought had initiated the problem in another deck I was previously using. Does anyone have any suggestions? I apologize if this is just a goof because I don’t understand all the settings, but I’ve researched this a bunch and can’t find anything, as this is a new deck for which I have not yet adjusted the settings or changed any of the settings of other decks. I also don’t have any add-ons aside from Image Occlusion, which I’ve had for ages and this was never a problem before.Thank you!

Learning phase steps: 1min 10min 1d 3d
Easy interval: 8d
Graduating interval: 6d

Maximum interval: 240
Starting ease: 2.5
Easy bonus: 1.4
Interval modifier: 1.0
Hard interval: 1.2
New interval: 0

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Are hoy using subdecks? If so, are they using the same preset?

Could you post a screenshot of card info (press i while studying a card) of one of the problematic cards?

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Thanks for your reply! Yes, I am using subdecks, all with the same settings as above which is my default. Here’s the info on one of the problem cards:

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You’re rating that learning card as “Hard” (2) , not as “Good” (3). On learning cards, Hard repeats the current step after the first step, and is the average of Again and Good.

https://faqs.ankiweb.net/what-spaced-repetition-algorithm.html#learningrelearning-cards

That’s why you are getting 5,5m (average between Again and Good, since your learning steps are 1min 10min 1d 3d) when pressing Hard repeatedly.

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Oh! Thank you so much, wow, that’s embarrassing. I’ve been using an 8BitDo for keyboard shortcuts and I apparently messed up some of my shortcut keys. Thank you so much, definitely won’t make that mistake again!

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