I am indeed in the 2nd year. The 1 second interval is on paper 1 second long but in practice the cards that come before that in the queue would push the card further. So in reality a 1 sec interval is just really a whatever-long-it-takes-me-to-rate-the-newly-introduced-cards-before-that long interval.
But I didn’t know that rating Hard influences the interval for the short term. How does it do that if my learning steps are already set in place?
Sorry if the question is stupid. The last time I have ever clicked the hard button was 2 years ago since I first started learning with Anki.