Good luck and keep going, I tried twice today I’m happy with the latest score. My two most challenging kana were ナ (thought it was け) and ノ.
With that score I can now probably remove this two cheatsheets from my restroom
With that score I can now probably remove this two cheatsheets from my restroom
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Alright I redid the Katakana and Hiragana monographs only with English keyboard on my laptop and got 1:17, so I think my original times still stand 
So you were playing it more like a memory game? Find the corresponding kana on the keyboard? LOL
Still sounds useful though
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I suppose that could help with flick typing speed lmfao
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I’m not interested in the high score at all. I just want to improve my reading accuracy and speed as these are relevant when reading Japanese text. Especially the accuracy. And especially Katakana. There was so much Katakana in Japan all over the place that I couldn’t read – that must not happen again this time when I’m there!
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Learning Kana well is way more useful than people think. Definitely a great achievable goal to set! 
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I wanted to improve my phone typing speed in flick mode. I have (mostly) no issues identifying kana in the wild right now, so recognition is not my goal at all.
I’m trying to get good on level 1 for now. In qwerty keyboard I take 50 seconds, but on flick keyboard the least I took was 1:29. This is the screenshot of my last session:
The number in the middle accumulated with each 46 kana try. I didn’t know it did that.
If I can get it down to under a minute consistently I’ll move on to level 2.
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Day 8 of Monokana: 2% less accurate (yesterday I was just lucky), but 1% improved compared to the day before! And still 10 seconds faster than yesterday. 
I failed again at フ (fu), as always, and my old friend ヌ (nu). And I accidentally mistyped one Hiragana because I was not focused. 
Gonna do better tomorrow!
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Day 9 of Monokana:
After yesterday’s setback, I took more time to think this time – and yes, 3% more accurate! 
I also finally succeeded both at フ (fu) and ヌ (nu), my biggest enemies! Still a few mix-ups here and there, but nothing specific, just the usual suspects (ソso/ンn, シshi/ツtsu, etc.).
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Curious to see if I remembered the kana I didn’t know last time, I tried again.
I still didn’t remember what ヲ is lol. In fact, even though I saw it just two minutes ago, I’ve already forgotten what it is again. This is not surprising. My memory generally doesn’t go further back than 20 seconds.
But I didn’t have any typos this time and I improved my time!
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Day 10 of Monokana: What a jump, from 96% to 99%! Again, took the time to think, it helped.
I actually only failed once: At テ (te). I mixed it up with ケ (ke). Now my mnemonic is that te is for telephone and looks a bit like antenna. Let’s see if it helps tomorrow.
My reason for reaching 99% today is that I found a trick for differentiating ソso/ンn and シshi/ツtsu. To me, so and tsu look like all lines are going more downwards, whereas for n and shi all lines are more forward facing.
So what I do is to think of the “karate chop” or “hand chop” gesture – where you strike the edge of one hand onto the palm of your other hand – which is used in Japan (and other countries) to emphasize “It’s so!” (itsu so イツソ). The chopping hand clearly moves downwards, therefore “It’s so!” is connected to tsu and so, whereas the other ones must be the alternatives.
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The downward and forward thing you’ve caught on to is actually completely correct. Here’s an interesting article that reveals a bit of history about ソ and ン. Consider the fact that you picked this up by yourself, and maybe you’ll never mix them up again! 
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Day 11 of Monokana: Okay, 1% down to 98%, but still quite accurate!
The mnemonics from yesterday worked, so I got テ (te) and ケ (ke) right. But I failed at モ (mo), I entered ホ (ho) – no idea why. But it should be obvious that a kana that reads “m” when turned to the side should start with “m”!
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Day 12 of Monokana: Back to 99%, at 28 seconds faster speed! Getting close to leveling up. 
Today I got テ (te) right, but I failed at recognizing ケ (ke) as it came first and I entered te! I should have recognized that it looks a lot like a kick and therefore is the one starting with k. Tomorrow?
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Day 13 of Monokana: 99% again, I’m getting there!
Despite my mnemonic, and even thinking about it, I decided too quickly for ン (n) and entered ソ (so). Hopefully won’t happen tomorrow!
Not sure if it will work for you, but it did for me 
With ン vs ソ, I noticed how ソ resembles incomplete y – so combined reading + visual makes it a “soy”.
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Day 14 of Monokana: 99% one more time. But 21 seconds faster! 
Just randomly failed at む (mu), entered ‘nu’ instead.
At least I got all Katakana right!
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Day 15 of Monokana: I DID IT! First time 100%!
Now the goal is to have 3 subsequent days of 100%, then I can level up to Diakana!
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there will be a time where you start to realize that kanjis are easier then katakanas.
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