Do you count numbers towards your Lingq statistics?
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Nope. Names, numbers, and foreign language words get ignored.
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I certainly do - a learning progress often goes unnoticed and statistics help to see it. Numbers additionally motivate me to study more, especially the Streak.
update: I misread the title of this thread, and here at LingQ counting arabic numbers towards statistics is not possible for European languages at all. I added numbers represented as words when it was new to me, but I’m not doing it anymore.
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Well, that depends on a language I am learning. For example, I don’t count’em when I learn English, but I do it for Chinese: numbers are in characters.
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I don’t know what you mean. Something like “ 1 “ is not a word. But “one” is a word, so, of course that counts.
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Im asssuming he meant this and I agree with it. I think Sergey missed it, but completely understandable.
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Of course yes, when they are not written as digits. For example, German words zwei, zweite, zweiten or Italian due, secondo, seconda are different.
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Yes let’s say it’s 80 words for free.
Once I’m at 27200 and I’m learning 80 words per day at a minimum I won’t feel like I tricked myself. I won’t feel like my statistic should say 27200 - 80 words that are numbers. I feel like between 5 - 10% of the words I have was looked at it once and added it. But I don’t care as that top 5 - 10% I really worked hard for. A word like “simply” I have been struggling with for 2 months. Numbers are actually quite difficult for me. The same with days of the week. In portuguese the days of the weeks are numbered so if the language is easy in that sense why make it more difficult for you you know them it’s the language so add them. I love it when I see a word like January, April, December. Because those will be added to my known words.
The only words I ignore is if it is another language. I’m quite proud I can read Donald Trump in Russian. So as long as it’s NOT a qoute from another language. I add it.
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I only count the word form of the language for certain numbers. For example: one, two, three… nineteen, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty… ninety, one hundred, two hundred, three hundred… one thousand, etc. But it also depends on the language. Basically I try to only add the minimum number of unique words.
I ignore proper nouns, but why do you ignore all numbers? I would never count twenty-one and twenty-two in English as two different words, but one, two, twenty i think should be 3 separate words. Why do you think they shouldn’t count? No pun intended 
In Chinese I only count 1-10, 100, 1000 etc. since the others are just repetitions of the same characters. In Chinese the measure words also tend to be combined with the numbers 一个， 一块， 一条 etc. I want to make sure I mark the measure words but for those I only count the singular (and occasionally a pair depending on the word meaning). I tend to be pretty generous with my lingqs but I think counting every number is a bit too unrealistic at least in Chinese.
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