Doing a monthly language challenge, "ignore word[x button]" is no points awarded?

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1

It seems the ‘x’ button is a good way to prevent later accidentally marking any easy word as “known,” but does this give you no LingQ points where as marking "known[‘k’ button] gives you full points.

Is this correct?

2

yes the “x” gives you no points, and known seems to give full points. im fairly new to this, but easy or not, why not just mark the word known if you know it and recognize it in context? you get points and a more accurate numbers of what you know. but maybe I am not understanding the question

3

I also don’t really understand the premise. If you know the word, mark it as known. Ignore should be used pretty sparingly, just for things like foreign language words, proper nouns etc.

4

The two advantages I can tell, is that

  1. x is better for one handed operation
  2. if you accidentally select a known word and then move on, it will, by default, then mark it as unknown again.
5

There are two advantages, which you may personally not place much value in, that I can see for using ignore.

The two advantages I can tell, is that

  1. x is better for one handed operation
  2. if you accidentally select a known word and then move on, it will, by default, then mark it as unknown again.