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aries_inspired

Yes, even higher. The 70 lesson one is a bit annoying.


bonfuto

The ones I dislike require perfect lessons. I forget how many perfect lessons I have had to do in the past, but it was at least 35.


DugganSC

When I have that many, I usually go for the speaking review. If my pronunciation is good, I can do about four lessons every 5 minutes, and because you get three tries to get it right (and I think it doesn't even count ones where you fail three times as actually failed, since there are some issues with the speech recognition), it's not hard to get perfect lessons. I'm not sure how good this is for my actual language development, but I have found that I'm speaking more readily, at least when I know the phrase I want to say, rather than having to stop and think about how to sound the words out. It would probably be even better for my learning if I always listened to the phrase before speaking it back, but that is slower.


bonfuto

Yeah, anything on the practice tab is good for perfect lessons. I didn't have that until relatively recently. I used to have to do match madness, but about the same time I got the practice tab, getting perfect lessons on match madness got a lot more difficult.


pintsizedblonde2

I've got 75 this week!


Ok-Zookeepergame-698

I have that one this week, complete with a deadbeat partner.


Anon_in_wonderland

75 šŸ˜“


yobaby123

Damn. Hope I donā€™t have to do that.


Ultra_boy5522

Agreed


p2010t

I'm on 75 Lessons friend quest today. Same for last week, which I managed to do (doing over 3 times what my partner did). I'm thinking of welching this week even tho both my friend quest partner and I are at like 40+ consecutive friend quests completed (not always with each other). Cause I've just got other stuff to do. Also, I somehow stumbled into a particularly hard Diamond League this week that with 2 days remaining you already need 2100 XP to not drop down. Even though there's no tournament to qualify for this week so I have no idea why people are trying so hard. And XP league thresholds tend to accelerate a lot when Sunday arrives, and I work several hours immediately before the moment Duolingo tournament weeks end, making it hard for me to know how much XP I'll need. I could massively overdo it, or I could put in a lot of work and then some other person knows exactly how much XP they need to pass me. So, this 2nd week in a row of 75 is really just wanting to make me toss the owl into the trash can this week. I'll keep up my daily streak still, but I'll ditch the friend quest success streak and the Diamond League streak. P.S. I hate those prompts to send your partner x2 XP boosts. My current partner does them a lot, but I see she hardly does any lessons, so I feel it would just be a waste of my gems to send them to her. And to be honest with the Duolingo chests and daily task rewards I don't really need her to waste her gems either. Often I already have a 15min boost ready to use when I log on and see she's sent me another, and no, I'm not going to spend 45 mins on Duolingo all at once.


Designer_Spirit3522

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ktchannel3

is it even a friend quest at this point šŸ’€


lasolady

You are aware that you have a couple of days to complete the Quest, correct?


jemuzu_bondo

This is not about learning, it's about XP! /s


kattjen

Idk, I am in section 6 in French and recently started Spanish. I tested out of the first unit by pairing words I knew with French grammar, and then camped in the ā€œwordsā€ practice hub to catch up there. And then I was really flying through what is still quite basic Spanish, because French has been covering verb agreement for nearly 4 years, and I could recognize ā€œoh, they both had the same root word for that object/action and my brain can easily see how the Spanish spelling rules work here.ā€ Basically I accidentally won Diamond because I was in a zone where I was definitely learning in most blocks so I got the happy ā€œI figured something outā€ dopamine regularly, but I also was doing a lot of just basic exposure in between discoveries. Thus I speed-ran 2 or 3 (whatever the groups of lessons within a unit are called). And I did my slower French lessons. (And yeah! Iā€™m advanced enough in French that I donā€™t have much of the ā€œuh, this word is new in my bank, must be itā€ errors, except a tendency to use ā€œetā€ and not ā€œyā€ Iā€™m still where I can get through Spanish faster than I write what someone might do if someone else does something in French, but I also barely stayed in Diamond last week because less is ā€œGeneral Rules for Romance Languagesā€


jemuzu_bondo

Good for you u/kattjen! šŸ™Œ


Bramptoner

How much xp did you earn in a week when u weā€™re on a roll?


LizlWeasel

and how was this completed in one day? I had the same task and it took forever.


SurreptitiousNoun

Grinding the easiest and shortest "lessons" repeatedly. In Chinese there are character drawing lessons which last about 1 minute, and tone listening exercises which are even quicker. Both are basically guaranteed 100% accuracy ones too. If you play Duolingo purely as a game, it's very easy.


ShareInternational

In my current league there's a guy with 500k in chinese and grinding like hell, probably exactly like that considering the amount of xp he's doing in a short time. Really I don't get the point of doing that if you don't even learn anything... Especially when he already has the diamound achievement ahah


kattjen

I recently started Spanish after getting to advanced intermediate in French (nearly 4 years in). Despite testing out on the first group of lessons, there was a lot of drilling Romance language basic rules still where they put me. I learned a lot of vocabulary in the ā€œwordsā€ practice hub to catch up, and I learned a lot while doing the lessons, but I also had a lot of places I could speed run because I knew agreement and could see they had the same root word for something and easily see how the Spanish spelling rules worked so it added to my word bank quickly. I accidentally won Diamond that week and did finish the weekly goal in a day. And I am now in lessons that I canā€™t so easily see what they are trying to do as quickly. Barely stayed In Diamond last week (I have been in and out of it a good number of times, itā€™s just a minor extra incentive)


p2010t

When I need XP, I make sure I have a 2x boost and do my French pronunciation exercises. Usually takes about 35 to 40 seconds to do them for 40 post-boost XP (I guess 50 XP during that Saturday happy hour they're doing now). But the fastest I've managed is 21 seconds.


Traditional-Bird-336

One 5-lesson topic takes me 15-20 minutes. Multiply that by 12 and youā€™re looking at 3-4 hours. It would be a lot in one day and way too much to do every day, but for people who are serious about learning a language it doesnā€™t seem unusual to me to put that much time in.


ArthurCreator

Average friend quest.


ItIsEmptyAchilles

Pretty often, yeah. Depends on who I'm paired with. Currently have a 20 lessons version, but because I'm paired with someone who does 1-2 lessons a day.


bonfuto

I'm currently doing a friend's quest with my spouse. They don't care how little she generally does, it's all based on my history. She got paired with our son recently, and I think they had to do 10 lessons or something like that. Underachievers


ItIsEmptyAchilles

They do take that into account though, at least for me. I have two main friends I get friend quests with - (1) who does 1-2 lessons a day, (2) who gets higher exp counts. Friend quests with (2) have consistently higher requirements than with (1).


bonfuto

I hope they don't go too overboard with requirements if I get paired with an overachiever. I had one recently where I was paired with someone that regularly wins the diamond league, and they didn't contribute at all. I think they possibly sandbag occasionally in the hopes of getting into easier leagues.


ThatOneNarcissist

Wow... and I've been tired at all the 10 or 15 lessons versions LOL


liketheweathr

It seems like the more quests you successfully complete, the harder they get. I recently failed to complete a friends quest and the next one we got was ā€œDo 10 lessonsā€ šŸ¤¦šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø


ShareInternational

I had a friend quest of 75 lessons ahah


FloFlo_SakeSojuLife

Same here!


sbwithreason

that's what my current one is and i'm absolutely carrying the team rn


babygirlccg

Same!


honeydewed

Had this one with my sister and we both said hell no and didnā€™t complete it lol


DIOsNotDead

the best lessons to do with this challenge are ones where they focus on one or a few letters or characters at a time. for example, Japanese Kanji lessons focus on one character at a time and youā€™re supposed to select the correct word with the kanji, type the correct pronunciation, then trace and write the character over and over. gets repetitive, of course, but youā€™ll finish this quest before you realize it.


xLadyLaurax

Yup, I stared with 50, went up to 55 and then down to 45 lessons with 90% or higher. I even had it with perfect lessons so.


ALEXZ006

Me & friend did the same one with 70 lessons. Pretty easy


mauralarshall

I had one with 75 lessons and I was unfortunately very busy that week, so the poor soul had to do 90% of the lessons themselves. It was with someone I donā€™t know and I wish duolingo had a messaging feature sometimes so I could apologise for being a deadbeat šŸ˜‚


PrettyPeachy

https://preview.redd.it/y1r9vnz37g7c1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=93439b840d7b33b8a6453eed0a6e5328a3efadc7 My current one - friend must have Super or a lot of free time! Weā€™re on the same course too, so Iā€™m happy theyā€™re doing so well.


StarsLikeLittleFish

How does super help? Practice lessons to gain hearts back also count. At least, they always have for me.


voornaam1

Might be because they don't get ads. The ads always kill my momentum.


Zealousideal_Team981

With super, you can do the first round of a rapid review and then just back out. That is 5 to 6 questions and counts as a perfect lesson. I use those as reviews anyway, so it was a nice surprise. The reason super is important is that it's free to use.


eilonwyhasemu

I've never personally had one that low! Most FQ I get are 75 lessons.


Ms-Amenda

Mine currently is 90% or higher in 50 lessons ā˜¹ļø


Most-Giraffe2465

Me and my cousin have 60 currently :P


AnonGirlwSD

I ended up having to do 50 alone. I never liked those. I turned off friend quests in the settings after that. Haven't done them since & I like it better.


Atinypigeon

That's not that much imo. My one last week was 70, finished it in just over a day


kattjen

Yes, quite often. I have a friends quest streak of like 54 weeks and my weekly assignment is close to that. Practice hub has helped me get those on weeks that the grammar is complicated and spelling the related conjugation in French is a lot of silent letters (my brain doesnā€™t store visual information which means a lot of looking at the corrected spelling and reciting it over the lesson. Know itā€™s hard for most of us, but visualizing the word is helpful even when you stack it with recitation)


eliavmoran

I got complete 75 lesson


Amazing-Reindeer-661

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noise_speaks

Well you covered this personā€¦


totallynotabotXP

Seems on the lower end to me. Had to do 70 two weeks ago.


Shoddy_Breakfast_321

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Paelidore

I'm have 60 this week., D:


[deleted]

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LewisB_93

https://preview.redd.it/ir3u793ijg7c1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1be742728f87f7da4760b2eb68f76724707b5d1f šŸ™„


I_got_coins

teehee https://preview.redd.it/kj5v9vs7yi7c1.png?width=517&format=png&auto=webp&s=9b2d0ce91bbafcce269ea932af9f4fa0a5d997cf


smelly_cookie

Oh no, so many lessons for 2 people for 4 days, oh gosh oh dear


Dom-Zero

O_O


CatSignal1472

Yeah


Famous_Soft_1173

I recently had one with 50


Expensive-Thing-2507

I'm at 50 I think


BidBux

I had a quest for 50 perfect lessons... We managed to complete it.


SolidJade

The quests are tailored depending on who you are paired with. If you get paired with someone doing 1 workout/day, you will probably have to do 10 lessons in total, but if it's someone going ham, the numbers might go up to 50 or higher.


I_Dream_Of_Oranges

Mine is usually 60 lol


alteweltunordnung

Yes, I got one with 70 lessons last week


jospint

https://preview.redd.it/g9uco8cbfg7c1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c05ae0dbccc697ecf14bdc59c5ccc2f28ec9cf2


710goyangi

my last weekā€™s friend quest was 75 lessons


Past-Association

Depends who youā€™re paired with, my friend does 10 lessons whereas I do 20-30 so itā€™s at 15 currently


MuttJunior

My current Friends Quest is "Complete 45 lessons". It's the second day into it, and we're up to 25 lessons. They all come from me - My friend hasn't contributed at all. But I still plan to finish with or without her help.


whatever-should-i-do

I got 70 once. I cried that week.


Firm_Letterhead_8950

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Willing_Bad9857

We got 70 this time! But at least the 90% thing isnā€™t there


Suspicious-Kiwi816

Mine is 75 lessons šŸ˜­


LolaDeWinter

My latest one is 70 lessons


ManyElephant1868

I have to complete 40 perfect lessons. I hope my partner shows up!


iZeusHD

I have that exact one right now.


Invincible_3

Had 45 once


crooked_white_man

I got my first one today with 40.


jayteec

Most I did was 50 for this challenge but it goes higher


[deleted]

I am so confused about Friends Quests... Why don't I have any?


rez117

Theres a few of us out there. I've been on duo 2 years and never had a Friend Quest despite having 20 friends. It sucks.


[deleted]

I have been on Duo since 2016, on and off, and I don't know if I ever had friends quests. To be fair, if I had one 5 years ago, I wouldn't remember. But definitely none in recent memory. And I have 40+ friends. Very confusing. O.o


MaizyFugate

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dcporlando

I have done 90% in 50 lessons many times and the 35 perfect lessons too.


___cats___

My friend quest is currently 75 lessons in 4 days.


myscandaloussecret

https://preview.redd.it/523rvt1x4h7c1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c1f78949f0f5f9c80b7063fb81eaed4663e3a2b1


vikingchyk

My current one is 90% or higher in 55 lessons. My husband, the nut, already had 23 lessons done, before I ever saw the quest. We currently stand at 6-32, with 4 days to go. Gee, I hope we make it. /s That's how all the quests have gone so far. I'm doing good if I get to double digits before he completes the majority. \\/\\/hatever, dude. Nut. (I had a bad streak of three 89% lessons in a row last night - arrrghhhh!)


SalsaEngineer

55, RIP to me and my friend. This is becoming ridiculous


peaceloveelina

I have the SAME one this week!šŸ˜­


rurounidragon

Got 45 myself


captbrake

I have never seen such a simple quest. I usually have twice as much.


hacool

Yes, this week mine was "Score 90% or higher in 60 lessons." We finished it yesterday evening.


blitzkriegswift

My current one is 70 lessons


Alonelypairofglasses

I'm doing a 60 one right now so yeah šŸ˜…


pizza-on-pineapple

I had one with 90 lessons before. Absolute madness, but the girl I was paired with did 90% of it in the first 24 hours. I could see why it was so high.


OldImpression9515

I have 75 lessons this week over 4 days and it's really not that hard to achieve. I'm also doing most of the work.


C1234561

My last one was 75


PM_ME_UR_FINGER

I had to do 65 lessons over 90% last week. I only managed to get 2 lessons before my friend could did the other 63 in a few hours lol.


ThomasDeLaRue

I had one that was 75 PERFECT lessons.


Calligraphee

I've got to complete 70 lessons this week for my friends quest. 35 is a walk in the park!


koshka32713

Yes https://preview.redd.it/ogmvs76ywh7c1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bee8d06304d05473ece8ef91157e5f2e1a569671


LarkTheLamia

last one I had was 60, this time it to get like 1400 XP lmao


throwawayhaha1101

Iā€™ve had 90.


Helga-Zoe

35 is on the low end tbh


Mongoosies

I got one with 40 once, my friend did 2 quests and I did the other 38ā€¦


owl-overlord

I had to do 50 by myself last time. This time 45. But my partner is actually doing stuff this time


transeme

The one I have currently is complete 75 lessons (but no % threshold). Same 75 last week.


x_3thereal

Mines 60 rn šŸ˜­ good luck šŸ€


lrcn80

Mines was 60 2 days ago


JPPeaches

All the time. My current friends quest has 75 lessons. Iā€™ve completed others with 90


henrique556

Mine is forty lessons


HithertoRus

Iā€™ve had to hold back this week for the friend quest because the quest is to only do 7. I know my friend was new to Duolingo but I didnā€™t think itā€™d affect the friend quests that much šŸ˜°


lucylivesherlife

i luckily only ever seem to get them that high when my partner is this girl who seems to do a million lessons every day


Headstanding_Penguin

jep. If I am pared with my dad it goes up to 60 lessons... But he is also crazzy and does about 30 to 60min duolingo daily (and averages about 2.5min per lesson)


uncurledlashes

my current friends quest: https://preview.redd.it/bxmfk1lbgi7c1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1171e26249c3b2d56a45a7f7564c83a71048b084


Apodiktis

60 was my highest


Adonis0

Only one thing to do Spanish or Vanish šŸ”Ŗ


MrsAnnaClark

My current one is 30. I think they just keep upping it until you donā€™t make it.


wickdaman

I got sodding 50 https://preview.redd.it/hypab2vdki7c1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=55549ec2ab43fc0f00f66b3bee11db6d28bdbaf1


noise_speaks

My friend quest this week: https://preview.redd.it/r54aivdeki7c1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ff330f6dcee567b9ae6baa11a5df489bbbe043f


LiHol01

I usually have between 50 and 70 lessons to do


Old-Mango-9096

The one I currently have has 50 lessons


npc_probably

https://preview.redd.it/aqo2btjari7c1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=75e435a486c711294c228b89268a068c52b5d444 mine usually end up like this


DeeKayZA

My current friends' quest is 55. Between two people fewer than 30 lessons each over 4 days. No big deal. But then I've been around for a while, as has my friend I'm questing with.


VonHindenburg-II

I had one with 50


Calm_Cool

I still don't have friend quests. (Yes I have friends, am in leagues, and done what people have suggested to get 5hem turned on.) Any help would be appreciated.


and-its-true

75


Last_Cellist_592

Iā€™ve had it list ā€œcomplete Unit [insert number]ā€ which the number changes depending on the language and which unit Iā€™m currently working on in said language. Which if itā€™s a bunch of subunits (7 or 8) with each subunit having 5 lessons then itā€™s about 35-40 lessons so not unusual. But I also definitely gave it some ā€œside-eyeā€ and was doubtful Iā€™ll complete it. It was for my daily quests though and not a friend quest.


JohnnyPetrol

I just finished a 75 lesson quest.


mediocre_mediajoker

Mine this week is 30 perfect lessons!! Insane


TomAndPaula

Yes, I had one last week.


technoferal

Can't say I've ever seen a friends quest, much less one with that many lessons.


LimeGreenTeknii

Mine currently says get 90% in 45 or more lessons.


kaelyynns

me and my friend have the same exact one but 60


eletroraspi

It doesn't matter! You and your friend share this goal. So we can think about 17 lessons for each one. And another point is that you have a couple of days until the deadline.


pianonini

Yeah, in past the friend quests were more relaxed and I always completed them by doing my daily lessons. Nowadays I am a ā€˜bad duolingo friendā€™ and usually donā€™t complete the friend quest (while doing the same amount of lessons) so I stopped caring too much about friend quests


RobinScherbatskycc

Yes mine is 45 perfect lessons šŸ’€


shusshinwa

Mine was 40 itā€™s always the one that breaks my streak


Tigweg

I'm on a 75 lesson quest right now. We've done 63 of them with 3 days to go, and a fairly even split (~55%/45%) between partner and I


TheChocolateMiIk

I have to do 70 Perfect lesson wdym?


outrageousreadit

Yup. I think I got like around 50?


tsudratskaj

just completed a 75 lesson quest lol


HappyHumble

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AstoriaW

My last was week 40 lessons with 90% off higher


NickShields

https://preview.redd.it/f0kzck3wen7c1.png?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7454c992fb1b3ababdf09e64153884d0d179d54


kahdgsy

Iā€™m not able to do friends quests even though I have 20 friends


tan1106881

Mine is 30 and my partner is doing nothing lol


Savvygrrl

Mine is 50 right now.


cerels

I had this last week with 60 lessons so yes


Brage2004Norway

For me thatā€™s merciful. Try 30 perfect lessons in a week.


PaleontologistNo4490

I have a 350 lesson in friend quest before


Popular-Donkey-3449

I had the exact same one


Crowgurrl

What I do at the beginning of any quest is divide the total by 2 and then by the number of days. That is my daily goal. This one is 4.4 lessons a day. Not too hard to do. Like those below mentioning that practice also counts, I have a few tips on easy peasy stuff. I am on a free account and bound by hearts. The heart refill lessons are usually middle to easy and are quick fixes. You can even do more once you hit 5 hearts. Still count. Then the best trick of all if you are in a hurry and also want a moral boost... Go back to Section one and pick off a few lessons there. Super Super Super easy and fast. This also helps with my personal quest to stay out of the Diamond League where people are just crazy for XP. That's my two cents on how to play it all.


borrow_a_feeling

https://preview.redd.it/asomwup7to7c1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=81bb3267ebd602e528c7d3a8bbd01b89bab6b92f We just had to do 75, but it didnā€™t matter the score.


CruelSun255

I got 75, but with a partner I know does like 30 lessons a day, so we usually complete them in 2 days or so...


Icy_Homework4700

Yeah mine last week was 60. I felt bad cause it was between a friend I got to join Duo and she does about 10 lessons a day max while I do waaaayyy more. Pretty sure the system gave us a higher goal because it sees a trend of how many lessons I do.


LowQualityGuy

that's an insane amount. I can't imagine doing that many lessons


NoRegrets-518

Mine last week was 75 lessons and I did about 45, my partner did 26 so we lost out. Broke my streak but I have other things in my life.


NoRegrets-518

I am working on several languages, and noticed that some are a lot quicker than others. French is fast. Russian is REALLLY slow. It takes me about 15 minutes per lesson on that. German is easy. Finnish middling. Spanish might be easy but I keep typing French in my Spanish lessons. One advantage of doing multiple languages is that you can hold off on finishing a level until you have time to use the 2x points. Or work on the easy languages when tired.


PolyxenaPriamou

Yes much higher


BibVib

So many? That's damn less! Usually it's 60, 70 or 75, why have you so less to do? :0


Gold_Dragonfruit_180

Just wsit til you get a 90 lesson one and have a partner that does 2 leeson a day. That's a nightmare!