Anki for some reason will not change the learning or review intervals from a pre-created deck. I’ve done everything. FSRS is not enabled. I’ve created a test deck and nothing has changed. I also made sure that the cards aren’t graduating early, and it even happens for every new card I make.
Since you are using SM-2 (not FSRS), there are multipliers that you can edit in the advanced part of the deck options. Make sure they aren’t 1 or something weird.
Thank you for trying to help, but I already checked all of these options and they are normal. It has to be a bug at this point right?
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Could you clarify what you mean by intervals not changing?
Do you refer to the current intervals of existing cards, new intervals that get assigned to them after a review, or the numbers set up in the deck options?
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Yes, the cards aren’t showing anything except less than 1 min, 4 min, 6 min and 4 days no matter what I change.
What about learning steps?
It is still unclear what exactly you are referring to.
Can you provide some screenshots of where you check those numbers, and what settings you have tried to modify?
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If you look. Its messed up at the bottom. I literally tried to adjust everything with my friend who has used Anki in the past. I appreciate any help. Thanks!
There’s very little you need to adjust, so that’s usually a bad idea if you don’t know what you’re doing.
The screenshot helps, but we still need to know – What settings are you trying? How are you expecting those settings to change what we see in this screenshot? Based on that screenshot alone, nothing looks “messed up at the bottom.”
If you want to know more, you also need to show us the Card Info for this card, and your Deck Options.
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I’ve tried resetting all the settings. As you can see 4 days does not appear in my settings, but the cards won’t change (previous image posted). And it gets even worse cause the 2nd time I see the card, the timing gets worse (like the options are 4 m 4d 10d and 14d. They won’t change. Thats the issue.
It would help if you attached the card info, as @Danika_Dakika requested. Without it, from the rest of the screenshots alone, it is impossible to say for sure which state each card is in.
I can only assume that the first card you posted is at the second learning step, and the second card is in the reviewed state. This would be compatible with the settings you have:
- The 1m and 6m in for the first Card would be the first two “Learning steps” in the deck settings, which you can try and change accordingly. The 4d is the “Easy interval” (1 day difference might be up to a rounding error and/or a fuzz factor).
- For the second card, 4m (Again) is the first of the “Relearning steps” in the settings. The rest intervals are not predefined (because the card is already learned), but computed procedurally, based on the review history. I would assume that you rated this card “Easy” when you first saw it, which immediately marked the card as learned, skipping the rest of the learning steps and assigned the 4d (=3+1) interval to it. The next time you see the card in the review, the same 4d interval appears as “Hard” (4d *
Hard interval= 4d * 1.2 = 4.8d, rounded to integer 4d). The “Good” 10d interval = 4d *Starting ease= 4d * 2.5. And the “Easy” interval is 4d *Starting ease*Easy bonus= 4d * 2.5 * 1.4 = 14d.
All in all, if you want to see the full progression of the steps “1m 6m 15m 1d 3d” for the cards you are learning, do not use the “Easy” option on them, because this immediately removes a card from the learning queue. Rate them as “Good” instead (and also pay attention to the warnings in the deck options and adjust the settings accordingly).
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I’ve also altered the learning steps but it showed no alteration .
Yes, but you need to show this for the same cards you are attaching the study screenshots of.
What parameter did you change? What are the values before and after the change? How exactly did you check if there is any effect? Did you test it on a freshly learned card, one previously rated in learning, or one at the review stage? With too much of the guesswork involved, we won’t be able to provide reliable help.
Also, make sure you are pressing the Save button after adjusting the settings. If there are nested decks involved, you need to change the settings in the lowest-level deck for the changes to take effect.
I’ve done all of these suggestions and it still doesn’t work. Again, I even created a test deck and changed settings there too.
You need to show, or at least, describe in detail, everything you did. Otherwise, I’m not sure what sort of answer you expect from this thread.
The recommendation for pretty much every user – and especially new users – is to avoid all of this SM-2 tweaking and use FSRS instead. You said you’re not using FSRS, but you haven’t said why, so we’re left thinking that’s probably not a well-informed decision.
Before you start doing advanced SM-2 settings adjustments, you should to understand how learning steps work, what Fuzz Factor is, and what you’re changing when you change each of these settings. For instance –
- You’re ignoring multiple warning messages, right there in in your screenshot.
- You’ve set your max interval too low.
- You’ve changed other things in the Advanced section, and you seem surprised by the impact they are having on your scheduling, so it’s not clear you understand those either.
If you don’t want to spend the time learning about this yourself, you should reset these settings to their default [using the 
next to each of them], or something close to it. And wait to change things until you have a specific issue you’re wanting to address. [Or just – enable FSRS, as I mentioned above.]]
It seems like you’re getting frustrated that the intervals won’t do what you expect – but you’re also trying to control these intervals much too strictly. Consider that you’re using Anki for a reason – maybe because you’ve heard how great it can be for learning. Perhaps you should give it a chance to schedule your cards before overruling its scheduling with your own. [And enable FSRS …]
Given your learning steps, that’s exactly what you should expect on for a New card on its first step.
Your Easy interval is 3d – see: Fuzz Factor.
Eltaurus explained a way that could be happening on Review cards. But it all depends on the state the card is in. You showed us the Card Info for a brand New card – if you show us the Card Info for a card getting these button intervals, I’m sure it will match that explanation pretty well. Or you can use the formulas and crunch the numbers yourself. What spaced repetition algorithm does Anki use? - Anki FAQs
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