# Improving sort orders

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**Category:** FSRS\
**Created:** [September 29, 2024, 12:10pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/improving-sort-orders/50081 "2024-09-29T12:10:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 11:18am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/improving-sort-orders/50081/2 "2024-09-30T11:18:17Z")

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> [@Expertium](#):
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> First of all, right now there are way too many different sort orders:

New users typically aren’t changing the order, so I don’t feel the existing count is a particularly pressing issue. Some of those orders are there not because they’re the most efficient, but because they’re the order some users prefer to study.

If simulations are showing a different order is more efficient, it sounds like we should add it. I’ve logged that on [Add 'reverse relative overdueness'; consider making it the default · Issue #3460 · ankitects/anki · GitHub](https://github.com/ankitects/anki/issues/3460)

Regarding the wording, ‘least overdue first’ reads easily, and I don’t mind it, but it no longer communicates that the overdueness is relative, so users may assume it works based on the number of days a card is overdue without regard to the card’s interval.

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