How to WIN the Duolingo DIAMOND LEAGUE (this works)

[@daysandwords]

Don't forget to subscribe and to completely forget what I said at 0:39.

[@fryrish7749]

Oh, so you're THAT Days of French 'n' Swedish serial killer that I hear about on the news.

[@KikiKanYT]

It works but my oppoment is also watching this video and works harder than me like learning for 10 hours.

[@KikiKanYT]

Do you have more further advice please? (I don't have enough time for 10 hours)

[@McSmitty69]

Or you put yourself on private in a browser version settings/privacy set to private do your normal Duolingo thing and put it back to public later and do your first lessons to start leagues. No need to freeze your streak .

[@ItsMeoMeo]

ok

[@headstanding_Penguin]

As a swiss who had to learn 3 (2.5) languages at school, I disagree with the duolingo bashing. It will get you started in a fun way and it will help you to learn alphabets, basic vocabs and language structures. A great starting point to expand learning and start exposure via different means.

[@jaceks6338]

Same story in Luxembourg. My 12 year old daughter speaks 5 languages, I'm using Duolingo to try to keep up

[@xvarzka33]

I'm supposedly B1 in German and picked up Duolingo. Turns out I'm great at listening comprehension but lack in creating simple sentences. At least quickly. Its great addition to the arsenal.

[@latenttweet]

Everyone learns different ways. Pimsleur helped me with pronunciation and remember sentences. Research on my own in books helped me with grammar and alphabet and pronunciation Duolingo helps me Learn new vocabulary and solidly other stuff I’m learning. It’s so easy and quick it’s like free learning. Although I got to say the paid version is helping me more. And using PC is way better than phone if you can

[@unadormilona]

The kid's version is really great, too. My 6yo nephew saw me playing the regular version, and I set him up on the kid's one. He played all afternoon, which is a huge improvement over his addiction to games. It'd be nice if they add more than English, tho.

[@KP-ky1sn]

You call that fun ??

[@NomadicVegan]

I admit that I did win the Diamond League once, and to achieve it I spent the better part of a weekend doing Stories in various languages that I already speak fluently. So I didn't learn much, but hey, the Stories are still fun, and I'm a completionist. That was my last remaining gold badge, and now that I have all of the badges I'll never do it again.

[@daysandwords]

Haha, completionist, a good word! I'm not sure where I stand on completionism. I like doing the speed rounds (the timed ones) in Swedish only because it is actually kind of difficult, not because of the Swedish but because you have to be fast enough that occasionally you just hit the wrong thing by accident and that puts even more pressure on. But yeah, I mainly just find passing everyone in the last 2 hours fun. And these days my toddler generally has a 2 hour bath at around that time so I just stand in the bathroom doing it haha. (Yes, I'm serious about the 2 hour bath. You have to refill the hot water because he refuses to get out even when it's cold.)

[@headstanding_Penguin]

As a swiss who had to learn 3 (kind of) languages at school (starting with standard german, then french and then english) I disagree with the whole "duolingo alone will get you nowhere" mentality. Duolingo will give you the basic patterns and sounds and even teach you the alphabet and in a way funnier and more enjoable way than the boring and endless (badly designed) school courses. Which is a good starting point do go and expose yourself via different medias. Maybe I get out more of a limited ressource due to already beeing semy fluid to verry fluid in more than one foreign language (yes 2 of them are official languages here, but swiss german is my native tongue and despite it beeing not classified as its own language, have you ever asked a german wheter he understands swiss german (if he had not been exposed)?)

[@NomadicVegan]

@@headstanding_Penguin Yep, I've asked, and they said they understood about 30 percent. I lived in Geneva for six years, and while I knew very little German at the time, I got enough exposure to Swiss German to realize how different it was. I agree that Duolingo can be a good entry point if you're just curious and want to dabble in a language, though the quality varies greatly from one language to another. The courses in popular European languages are not bad, while Russian, Chinese etc. are significantly worse, and Navajo is an utter embarrassment.

[@headstanding_Penguin]

@@NomadicVegan depends on where from germany they come... And which swiss dialect is spoken... And wheter they want to understand or not... Yes, I think the quality is way better with for example babble... but Duolingo is better for learning foreign alphabets and I would make an educated guess that you could learn enough to start working with very basic language learning tools from the target language/country after a duolingo course 🤔 Or at least have a chance to try

[@nannuky1128]

i'm learning Turkish and Korean on Duolingo, and they still don't have that Stories feature available ;-;

[@austin4768]

Lamont encouraging us to join the dark side and prioritize winning the owlgame over learning a language.... tsk tsk

[@daysandwords]

It's part of my hidden agenda.

[@extremetrend7164]

People never disappoint 😂😂😂. Am finished!

[@brittlby4016]

Not gonna lie… I caught myself doing that shit back at Ruby. The point is to learn.

[@Zonydeep]

The way it should be

[@dedreierasmus6657]

My OCD which is demanding that I have to win this damn tournamen does not care how lol. And after watching one person earning 30 000 xp in one day, yes I am "cheating"

[@anbheansachuisneoir9233]

I tried this method, and it worked for me. It would have been impossible for me to compete otherwise, because I do minority languages, and on Duolingo that means you don't have any of the more advanced features available - like Stories - that allow you to rack up points quickly. So I joined the Diamond League on Monday, and won it just by doing a normal workload. Then as soon as I won, I made my profile private and dropped out of the leagues altogether, because I was only doing it to complete my badge collection and the whole 'League' thing was pretty unhelpful to my language-learning....

[@Reality_TV]

What? How do you make your profile private? I've won the Diamond league over and over, but I need to shut the competitive side of me completely down and I did not know there was a way to make your profile private and drop out of leagues. Tell me the secrets! LOL! I'm an absolute league junkie and I'm trying to back out of it, but I'm winning, yet again, with 35K XP. I just want out of this Diamond life, but I'm too competitive for my own good! LMAO!

[@anbheansachuisneoir9233]

@@Reality_TV 1. Click on 'Profile' in the Duolingo Menu on the left of the introductory page. 2. Click 'Edit Profile' button at top right of Profile page. 3. Click 'Privacy' in the menu at right of page. 4. Uncheck the 'Make my profile public' box.

[@cheriagata6408]

@@Reality_TVlol😂 I’m sure I cursed you unknowingly 😂.. I won twice and this week I decided to give going for one of the top 3 spots. Last week was such a turn off. Dude was using a bot and he was cranking 10000 points in 15 minutes. I’m done! I want to know how to turn it off too

[@CarolJamieson]

Where are "stories" in Duolingo? Never seen them.

[@anbheansachuisneoir9233]

@@CarolJamieson When I did Duolingo, it was the old (pre 2022) format, and the way to access Stories was through a tab in the top right corner of your Duolingo home page. Since the switch in 2022 to the Duolingo 'pathways' format, I believe Stories are built in to your pathway (if you're doing a language that includes them). You access them via a stepping stone in your path that will have a 'book' symbol on it.

[@nendoakuma7451]

Yeah, I used to do that back before I set my account to private. I’m glad I no longer play in the leagues. The competition seems to be getting worse and worse. I felt much better after the pressure was gone. I don’t want to spend all my learning time just on Duolingo, but that’s how it was starting to get.

[@daysandwords]

I didn't even know you could set accounts to private haha.

[@notaname8140]

I agree, Duolingo got much better for me once I set my account to private

[@sigvita]

Hello! How do you set your account to Private in Duolingo. I am going crazy with that competitiin stuff. I would love to get out just of competition totally and only enjoy the language learning, as I love the app. Please help to poor addict😂!!!

[@catacata7672]

Oh well you have to go to your account and then click on setings and then scroll down to the Bottom and you will see "turn leaderboard of" or something like that and then click on it and you are done😊

[@Mii..]

Yeah I agree. All this competition stuff is pressuring. It's to the point where I'm more focused on staying at the top than learning. And duolingo is not that good of an app for learning a language. Since it doesn't teach you the complex parts, just have you remember stuff. Also, does turning off the leaderboard remove your spot in the ranking until your back to ruby league? Or do you stay in your spot?

[@EPHtheChemist]

I am currently battling someone in my first Diamond league and I want to WIN. It’s been taken over my whole week! I love how you refer to us as “freaks” because who else would are this much about a stupid app!? 😂 I feel at home here! Thanks for making me feel normal again!

[@omlo9093]

This is broken, the #1 guy in my league I just watched win over 1200 points in under 20 MINUTES. This app is broken, once I get the Rarest Diamond badge I'm dropping back down to Obsidian league...

[@user-xp8uo2ml2v]

​@@omlo9093theres a guy with 40k xp daily, idek how most ive done is like 4k a day

[@hollyfabiani]

​@@omlo9093i can do that. You get the double xp boost and do match madness. There are still people who somehow get 5k in 15 min. No clue how

[@nycstev]

@@omlo9093I had someone get past me with 37000 XP in an hour. I can’t even imagine how

[@Laura-ks3jp]

There are different kinds of badges?​@@omlo9093

[@jessegreen1891]

I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking these 6k+ XP players aren't jobless and mental.

[@vladimirmonteiro1845]

6k XP? That’s rookie numbers I made 20k XP last week and I thought I was a master until I find out there’s people who make 50k 70k 88k a week 😂

[@mosiarmstrong]

Once saw a player earn 30K XP in a week. I just want to win Rarest Diamond once then never again.

[@IBM-5100]

@@mosiarmstrong that's actually doable and fair if you abuse the 2x XP buff and use the chests in your favor, 45 minutes a day + weekly challenges would make you thousands of XP in a single day, it adds up to 30k in a week (and that doesn't even require you to play for multiple hours each day)

[@mosiarmstrong]

@@IBM-5100 I didn't care about Rarest Diamond that much 😅But since this last post I actually did win it, with around 4000 XP because I joined a "lazy league." I waited until almost a full 24 hours after the league reset to join in and I got a suuuuper chill league. I won the achievement then went private so I could focus on actually leaning the language and not simply competing.

[@frankojudoka]

The most xp I got is 24k. I passed 20k xp e times. So, I guess I haven’t face the toughest of the tough yet. My closest opponent had over 19k. After winning the final, I will just do everything the normal way. 😅

[@bornhoffer]

I've encountered these claims before, and I always wait until really late on monday before joining a new league, but I see there is another factor which clearly decides who I will be placed with: how many points I made last week. It is obvious that Duolingo strives to put people with more or less the same effort level together.

[@adderon]

It's true. Late night Monday and points match are a thing

[@RetiredAndHappy-]

I used this trick to win the diamond league with only a few hundred XP. It helped that I didn't care about my streak because I waited until Friday to do my first lesson, so I got put in with a bunch of other slackers 😀 At least now I'm Legendary!

[@kristenk708]

LOL

[@bobbi2507]

I love that you both answered the question and explained how to actually learn a language. Hopefully this gets you lots more viewers and gets some people on the right track for real language learning. I always appreciate your content.

[@unadormilona]

I've been in diamond league many times. Last week I won with 14K+ XP, and this week I got 2nd place with 16K+. But I've won with less than 10K before, too, so it definitely depends on who's in your group. Sometimes if I'm not feeling it or the competition is getting tons of XP on day 1, I'll coast through or even drop down to Obsidian to win that again before moving back up. But a competitive group is fun because it encourages me to work harder. I've even added friends from the league, which gives me more active people to do Friend Quests with. As a linguist and language teacher, I'll add that while Duolingo isn't natural input, it can be useful for learning vocabulary and basic grammar. I've also started using it as a refresher for languages I don't use as much anymore.

[@frenglish4669]

How much time did it take you to get 14K Xp?

[@7acco]

NAHHHHHHHHH@@ArmisHart

[@Hit139]

​@@ArmisHartI am right now in diamond for the first time so to win the diamond league I have to get to the 1st position or in the top 5 please let me know sir

[@Hit139]

@@ArmisHart I thought that whosoever fall in top 10 they will win the diamond league

[@ArmisHart]

@@Hit139 dude just try it... I won the diamond rank moved on to the actual league. and I placed the first 2 weeks. final phase/week I made sure to get first place. if it says up arrow and promoted or whatever be there. if it doesn't say that you had best be 1st or else you will be stuck waiting til the next league comes around. just...try it lmfao.

[@mpforeverunlimited]

I used to not like duolingo but I feel like it helps with languages that your beginner to intermediate in. Helps get your brain comfortable with hearing and putting the langauge together. But once you're advanced and are very comfortable hearing it then it probably won't help much

[@sat_37]

In addition to joining late to the league, do this as well: join the league a few minutes to an hour before the expiration of early bird chest so that you can both get a heads up and use the early bird boost as well. Also don’t grab the early bird chest as soon as the notification pops up. Lol.

[@larrycahoon8465]

Good advice. I have won it twice and found what you said to be true. I also avoid doing an early morning lesson the day after the leagues end figuring that a group of die hearts will try for an early start. There is something else I discovered that works well in conjunction with that. If I do a lesson by noon, Duolingo will give me double points for one 15 minute span from 6 PM to Midnight the same day. That is well worth taking advantage of. I don't know if it is a glitch in the system but I have been earning that doubling twice, once on the iPad and one on the iPhone. With that I can earn up to 1600 points in just 30 minutes each evening.

[@deanlie]

Thanks for reminding me of the "extend streak before noon for 15 minutes double XP bonus" deal. With that and 15 minutes double XP bonus for leveling up I have enough "almost legendary" areas that I can get 20 XP for a 10 point review before a legendary lesson, and 80+ for a legendary one (after doubling the XP) and be sure to keep out of the demotion zone if I need to.

[@christineaerens510]

Thanks a lot for this video. I like Duolingo to start learning a language but I was so frustrated to see people earning XPs so quickly while I spend hours to earn my XPs. I suspected well there was something wrong there and not only long hard work. I really do not like the idea of cheating, but also do not like this competition pressure. Thanks to some comments below, I also learned you can have your profile private and stop participating to the leagues. At least the time I will spend will be really to continue learning and not to earn XPs. Thank you!!

[@Koospa]

I just want to thank you for making your videos, especially your video about Anki and the Three-90 deck. I took on the challenge of making those two cards per day, and it showed me that I can consistently succeed in a small task. This kinda lead to a domino effect of me becoming much more active and motivated in life. From then, I ramped up my language studies, exercise, everything. Thank you for entertaining and inspiring us!

[@daysandwords]

Yep, that's it! It was the same for me except just learning a language in general. I went from always procrastinating on everything to being able to actually choose what I do with my time. I'm glad to hear that video helped you!

[@Fable1724]

Koospa, I'm very happy to hear about your experience. I wish you the best, I just want to take a moment to tell you it is a possibility to go back to your old ways of procrastination so to say. If you can obtain this life of productivity it can be lost if you don't consciously maintain it. I don't mean to sound discouraging or disregard your progress, I just think you deserve to be told this is a possibility, & you're strong enough to avoid it with awareness. Again, best wishes to whoever reads this.

[@VOIPninga1]

Great advice. I joined on Monday night around 11pm with the less competitive people. I realized now I could have joined much later in the week.

[@JonasStuart]

I won diamond league last night lol. I'm not obsessed with it but it was fun. I'll be watching your more serious video about really learning a language now!

[@daysandwords]

Cheers for saying so! It's a bit annoying that this was my second most popular video of 2022... I don't really want to talk about Duolingo but it's the only sure way to make sure people watch.

[@Bella-bn2lq]

I bounce between the amythist and obsidian leagues, that seems to be what happens given me slowly advancing through the lessons. Duolingo has been really good forgetting me to a level where I can start talking to people a little, watching some tv shows, listening to the duolingo podacast, keeping an ocasional diary and even starting reading a graphic novel in French. But I think I am probably better off focusing on those things now. I am keeping my streek up because it means I'm doing a little bit of French every day and I find the lesesons still do help me learn new vocabulary and practice new sentence structures. When I have a week with a bit of time I will probably go ahead try to win the diamond league. I might as well. I am aware of the long wait trick, but I rather enjoy duolingo so I don't tend to wait =longer than until monday afternoon to keep my streek going, but yeah I will use those streek freezes when its time to go for the diamond league.

[@mrthelwulf4566]

This man’s videos never fail.

[@eeeee323]

Yesss!

[@daysandwords]

Haha thank you. I'm trying to get people to realise that even when the video is about something stupid, it's worth watching haha! (I think anyway...)

[@mrthelwulf4566]

@@daysandwords No problem. I always love watching your videos cause languages are definitely one of my passions. ❤️ from 🇬🇧

[@InnerProp]

I must have done this by accident because I can keep my Diamond streak for months. I've done it because I was desperate to make learning Greek fun and gamifying it was the only way I've found. I started learning it to figure out what my in-laws were saying and I'm not good at it or learning languages, but I'll be darned if I let that stop me. Anyway, I figure I am learning little by little and getting a lot more positive feedback for it.

[@ihacris1282]

I waited as long as I could until around 2 hours before losing the streak and I got placed in a group, where the number one person already bashed up 9k xp on the first day, and ended up with 30k, the second one took 24 k. Not sure, if this strategy works

[@whatever1068]

I've never "won a league" cause I quit duolingo before that was a thing 😆

[@daysandwords]

It became a thing quite some time ago (before I quit the first time) but they didn't make much of a big deal of it.

[@MegF142857]

I won Diamond League once with about 4,000 point. There are people who clearly are crazy & must just live on Duolingo 24 / 7. You aren't going to beat them. It doesn't matter. The point of the leagues is to just try to motivate you. If you fall down, then you will get more diamonds to get back up to a higher league when move up again. -- I just do daily quest each day & maybe put a bit extra effort on some hard weeks to stay on Diamond League, so that's a good motivation (imo). But you do you. Once you are on Diamond League enough weeks, then they move into a super Diamond tournament. Really nutsos on that one with 35,000 points. How?

[@meropale]

I made my profile unpublic and it's been great. Racking up points and ranking high on the leaderboards does not equate to getting better at the language.

[@musicbytoffie]

OMG...I didn't know you could do that. Yes, I'm going to do this too

[@sigvita]

Hello! How do you make your profile unpublic/private, please! I want to get out of that competition mode and enjoy language learning alone.❤

[@maxnevelsteen874]

I’ve been in the Diamond League for just a week so far and it’s absolutely insane how far people go for the ‘Unrivaled’ title. I keep wondering what does people do with their lives…

[@CouchPolyglot]

I have never paid attention to the Leagues, but having a strike used to be a thing for me. Then I lost it after like 80 days, got mad and stopped using Duolingo for a while 😆 Now I use it every now and then just for fun 😄

[@sontrajamfemininegaze145]

Oh, gosh. THANK YOU. I always wondered why competition in the league got harder the harder I worked. It was so frustrating; there was no reward for working hard.

[@daysandwords]

I mean, I would now encourage you to go and do a lot more reading and listening to the language, rather than cartoonish games.

[@shelby8101]

I don’t know if I have ever placed first in diamond league but I have stayed in the diamond league for multiple weeks. Make sure to take advantage of your early bird boost which you get by doing a lesson before 10 AM, I think, and then also by doing the happy hour which I believe is seven or 8 PM… Can’t remember but if you turn on notifications it will tell you lol you get double XP for those times

[@simenrudsengen2370]

Great video as always! What are your thoughts on duolingo closing the forums, and the progression tree redesign coming out later this month?

[@daysandwords]

I didn't know they were closing the forums. I think the forums are primarily timesinks for people, I've made a video about that... but I think Duo is closing them not for that reason, rather because they don't like people expressing opinions in there. I don't like that they are essentially cracking down on people disagreeing, but I do think about 60% of the disagreement there is just people who don't know what they're talking about, arguing that certain things should be accepted. Going back through the Swedish forums is painful... people are like "Why can't I put "Jag mår dåligt"!? This is obviously correct!" - No it's not, genius. Most changes to Duo end up being bad but I'll see about the tree redesign.

[@SaBoTeUr2001]

I had no idea how this selection happens every week! Thanks, this will help me avoid the "freaks". Sometimes I felt like Alice in Wonderland on the chess board, running like mad just to stay in place.

[@rickydinto]

Me: *Getting 5000 points/day* I've been learned that it's much more fun to bullied normies on leaderboard than actually learning a language...🗿

[@rickydinto]

My tricks are quite simple: •Start a new language each week •Get "Legendary" on short session lessons •Lot of free time about 10 hours minimum (4 hours in morning, 3 hours in afternoon, 4 hours in night) I have business btw so money is working for me, hence 'lot of free time'.

[@theoneitself]

​@@rickydinto does these tricks still work with the new Duo update? (Specially the Legendary one)

[@EH-dw3wb]

Doing the Duolingo Spanish course has helped me develop the basics and intro to use it as much as I can at work when I have customers from Latin America. That being said, my duo score and my actual Spanish ability aren’t the same because I’ve had to learn a lot of terminology for my job and my job is very technical. I try to socialise with others who speak Spanish as their first language to continuously build my understanding but I don’t think I could have done any of it without starting with the blocks first. That’s just me experience though, I like the feedback about my grammar that duo gives me and I couldn’t have done that with a flashcard app or with a book myself because I wouldn’t have known if I was wrong

[@SteveMorton]

Another way of leaving it as long as possible is to set your profile to private and therefore not in any leagues. Then Saturday or Sunday make your profile public and then do a lesson and it will then add you to which ever league. And you are only going to be in with a bunch of people that aren’t daily users. I didn’t lose my streak either!! Being private I was still able to do a daily lesson! I got the Diamond League using this trick a few months ago. Then I went private again because I hate the leagues thing. I wish there was an opt-out option for leagues without having to go private

[@OZdoesArt]

I have heard from a few other sources that waiting to do a lesson on Monday is exactly the right strategy. I've won top place in Diamond maybe three times but so far I've just gotten sorted in easier diamond leagues out of luck. Now that I've won the badge for it I don't compete in leagues as much, unless I feel like it will be an easier one to win.

[@aaronhanlon772]

Love your videos man. I found Duo good for beginning and for forcing me again and again to re do sections i have not learned yet. I also find it very good at expanding my vocap. However i think Busuu is better. But i still like Duo.

[@randomshadow4620]

30 mins later I, after this comment is posted, I will get my first win. But, I only watched this video now. I did 4000xp per day without any boost lol. I feel so messed up now.

[@LlamasAtMidnight]

I haven’t watched this video yet but as someone who has won the diamond league for way to many weeks I can tell you how amazing it feels having that little number next to the badge. I haven’t learned any languages in months, I only care about the number getting higher

[@daysandwords]

Hahaha

[@-TheUnkownUser]

what a weird way to achieve nothing...

[@laurengrant1904]

@@-TheUnkownUser oh bore off. It’s just a bit of fun

[@Yodakaycool]

What’s the number now?

[@Stephanie-gv8rh]

I stopped using duolingo years ago,didn’t even know this was a thing. Still I always enjoy your videos.

[@Splizzyfr]

I won the bronze league by doing Duolingo for 10 hours 💀

[@Sadbrother969]

Lol

[@1happyRain]

I'm B1 and started duo lingo out of curiosity for the first time. I have a 17 day streak. I have learned a total of two new words😂 but I'm still doing it, because well some languages exposure is better than none and its a fun 5mins a day break my other 5mins break a day is drops. I got to my level mainly by Busuu(because of this channel) and refreshing same levels with DW hour long lesson course.

[@SharonD7]

I enjoy Duolingo, and I watch videos put out by language teachers and listen to news/stories in languages I am studying. All are very helpful. Thank you for your tips.

[@brandonsmith1198]

This is a great video, and I really enjoyed every minute of it

[@mvdeehan]

I used this trick this week and delayed till Monday morning with enough time to complete a class before 12pm. But my new Diamond League had one guy get 7000 points by end of Monday 😂 I just checked and i’m in demotion zone with 700 points (Wednesday morning). I have won it a few times though before but I am not going nuts by doing nothing else.

[@timotei3937]

I won the Diamond league last week with 20k xp and I had in plan to win this one too, but in this league is a man who literally doesn't have a life and already has 17k xp (I have 16k) I really want to win this league too, so this is why I searched this on KZbin

[@w.rowechmura8414]

I just got out of ruby league. Me and this other player both put in 20000 + points before I said F@#$ this and just played casual. She eventually won and I got promoted to ruby. It was an exhausting week and I was hurt by the experience. I’m guessing I’m one of the psychos but I had a breaking point. I’m happy this video has given me a better strategy for the future. I’ll hang with the late crowd. 😂 good video thank you. ❤

[@flawyerlawyertv7454]

If you make your profile non-public, the leagues will disappear. You can make it public again on Saturday or Sunday and do a few lessons and you'll surely get first place. It worked a few months ago. Now I'm trying it again to see if they have changed it.

[@sigvita]

Hi! 😊How do you make your profile non-public, or private? I can't find that option myself! Help, please!

[@kavya12kohli]

I am learning Spanish for fun and I am a very competitive person. I started learning about two weeks ago. N I placed first in both weeks in bronze n silver league. Now in gold league, I have met another competitive person. Because of them, I'm already on 5000 points in 4 days. N I know that they are going to cover this lead I have and I'll have to work harder for even more points. Frankly, it's tiring.

[@Elysian_s]

I have been using this trick for yrs..wait and then join...it sure works!

[@БГ88ГОВНИК]

I think it really depends on your group and I find the more weeks you're in a league the lower the competition. For example sitting 4,5,6 weeks in Obsidian the Top 3 are all well under 5,000 if not 3,000. Diamond league is higher than that typically but not automatically as I've had the top dog "only" have 3,600 points or there about. And ya artificially keeping your unit level lower than your proficiency means the matching game can be totally gamed at least to level 9. Reality is to constantly win level 10 is manic as unless you go on a prolonged run of picking the matches as they fade in you just don't have the bloody time.

[@zxtremedemon]

I always do my lesson within 2 hours. I mostly get about 2nd, but for some reason there’s always that one person that gets like 10000xp. To get more XP, I think the events such as match madness or lightning round gives the most the fastest.

[@IzzyOnTheMove]

I don't need to learn how to win. I just will 😆👍You get points because you're good, you're faster than most people and make fewer mistakes. Simple ❤

[@daysandwords]

You can win in lots of ways other than actually knowing the language well, but even so... I mean I can win easily in Swedish but so what? I already speak Swedish, what does that do for me?

[@JohnCornellier]

So the strat is join late in the weekly cycle so your competition is other "slackers". What do you mean by "win"? Top 10 or first? As of today in my diamond league there are 30 people. 10 in "tournament", what actually happens if you finish in that top 10? Is it different from being 1st? Also the "tournament" is only marked on iOS, not on PC.

[@daysandwords]

No. I don't have any "i" devices, wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole. I can see it both on PC and my Android phone. Winning is winning, coming first. There are always 30 people in the league within a few hours (hours at MOST) of joining the league. The only time you could ever not be up against 29 people is by joining in the last few minutes before the league ends.

[@debramoss2267]

Thank you for this, lots of amazing info even if you don't want to compete with others. You have left a vital part unaddressed and that is what do I do with these boxes of caps, is there really a snake in absolutely everything in Italy and when does this salad go off?

[@sevret313]

Won it once with about 1300 XP I think. Waited till close to the deadline to get a few hundred more XP just to not create a race between my and then first place. So yeah, it's a good trick. Would I care to do it again? No.

[@ApexHerbivore]

Anyone else notice the scoring has been nerfed? I used to get 2x-4x what I'm getting these days

[@GuardianTiger]

Dang! Sometimes I accidentally get in, in seconds because i was doing a lesson when it ended 😢 now I'll wait a few hours at least so i join more normals ones because definitely i noticed people get thousands in just one day😂

[@artemisia2002us]

Winning the Diamond League at least once can aid in motivation and learning, imho. After that, forget the Leagues for the most part. I've won Diamond multiple times but now I don't care when I'm booted down to Obsidian because I started a league early and the super competitive members all had thousands upon thousands of XP.

[@AndyWJP]

I naturally don't rejoin right away on the Sunday night since I put in a surge of effort to get a good finish to the week on the last day and am tired of it so need a rest. Also, I did notice freaks that have crazy XP that do it at the start of the week and do bursts etc. Well I did a burst today and got into the Diamond league. So I did a search and found your video. You confirmed my suspicions regarding time zones and groups. So now that I have achieved my game goal, I will implement your suggestion for maintaining status and playing around with getting top slots to check those boxes off. Now I do intend to study more usefully to build better conversational skills.

[@AndyWJP]

Also, I may as well share my technique for finishing strong. When you are done for the week, finish at the last but one level of the lesson where you are at an park say 100 xp away from your competitor. But check the rankings every 15 minutes to spot somebody making a move (sniping). If need be you can spend an extra 20 minutes to get 20 xp and then double xp on 3 lessons to boost your xp to the tune of 90+ where they may be making 15 xp increments etc.

[@AndyWJP]

@nadiaibarra6219 I waited until 4:30pm to start and already some freaks have got 1000+ XP in my league.

[@daki2223]

Hey Lamont I'm planning on taking your "learn a language in a month" idea and documenting it. I have two textbooks and want to give periodic updates every 7-10 days ( I haven't decided yet). I'm just wondering if u have some advice for me both on the learning side and production side?

[@charityneverfaileth22]

Did you do it? I want to watch that.

[@bappi_223]

I love to take challenges like securing 1st position from 30 to 1 within last hour. It gives me extra layer of pleasures😅

[@Nini.Palmier]

Your video literally SAVED my life. I could no longer do 4000xp/day it was just no longer possible I spent 3/4 hours a day there and I didn't go out. THANKS !

[@trumplostlol3007]

Spending too much time on Duolingo wouldn't make you fluent in any language. I am in the diamond league this week which is my first time. It is just too much "work" and I can't really learn anything. So, after this week, I will skip one week and focus on Japanese grammar. I will also spend time on reading Japanese news on NHK's website and try to memorize about 100 Japanese verbs using studystack. Level 4 Japanese is getting very tough in terms of Japanese grammar and vocabulary. It is difficult to compete with those who keep doing old lessons and reviews.

[@musicbytoffie]

💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

[@mgvmg9630]

When I started it was between 1000 and 3000 then first week of diamond league. I was busy. And I show how many languages I learn. For me is fun I get to learn languages. But now they're in 40.000 points what happened?

[@IceCubeComments]

I heard on reddit that if you join on late monday you will be able to get into a chill server where people dont even surpass 10k

[@daysandwords]

Well that's what this video says, but there's no guarantee that you'll be in a chill server no matter when you join. It's just more likely.

[@anna7276]

I remember trying soooo hard to win diamond league. Would do it for hours while the brat was at gymnastics. Won it and then… nothing happened! I’d thought there would a prize at the end. Was so disappointed I cursed that owl hard! Lol

[@tn98544]

This vid capped off my Friday

[@daysandwords]

Happy to hear that!

[@chvhndrtntlr3482]

I usually not too excited doing duolingo but if someone pass you and you try to pass them back but they keep fighting you, that's when I go berserk mode and once get 10k a day without cheating...

[@Zakari2]

I do so

[@zaclaplant3001]

I've been on Duolingo for Turkish for about a year, study from an English to Turkish textbook, I LIVE in Türkiye and have for about 7 months, my wife is Turkish, and she is the only member of her family that even knows English (at a level B2)... Her family doesn't know any English. When we go out, I try to read everything I can and always try to practice my Turkish. Even my favorite genre of music has become Türk Sanat Müziği and my favorite artist Nesrin Sipahi (even though I don't understand the lyrics). Still can't learn the language to save my life. I'm no better than I was at week 1.

[@Thytos]

I kept doing that for a couple weeks already and I'm still paired with the freaks. Just boarded on a new diamond league and within the first 10 minutes #1 already had 360 XP. How is that even possible?!

[@YourMajesty143]

Probably was earning 80 XP on each lesson in Legendary by using the XP Boost.

[@saigonkat]

Just got 1 Diamond with 21653 Points, I can finally focus on actually learning a language now. I actually had to stop myself from progressing, so that I didn't get any challenging task in the timed challenges. Ended up wasting 12 hours 15 mins on this pointless challenge.

[@robertspencer2307]

I think the cartoon with the dogs is cute, but I don't recognize it. Where is that from please?

[@87advil]

The show is Bluey

[@daysandwords]

Australian show that everyone here knows whether they want to or not. Bluey is the small Blue Heeler, her sister Bingo is the little orange one. Bandit and Chilly are her parents. Freakin' hilarious show, I mainly only see it in Swedish.

[@tomasmach2272]

When I was doing English course(I'm not native) i was gaining up to 24k points a week for 2½ months, so many wins

[@KP-ky1sn]

I used to be competitive until i realized it was a COLLOSSAL waste of time. The only thing i care about now is doing a whole unit per day and finishing it. Thats already a tough time investement of 2-3 hours grinding through +/- 800 lines. The thing is, unless youre part of a group there's no real recognition and since no one there actually knows you OR cares about your results. Competing is a complete waste of precious time.

[@daysandwords]

Absolutely it is.

[@josefinegoldbrunn9877]

Thanks for this piece of advice. I, however, discovered a person using your trick and mixing it with some other person's trick that allows you to gain 700 -1000xp in just 30 minutes. What would you recommend in such a case if I want to continue learning the languates seriously?

[@daysandwords]

If you want to learn languages seriously then I would actually not use Duolingo at all. This video was purely about winning the diamon league, not about learning a language. What language is this for?

[@josefinegoldbrunn9877]

@@daysandwords thanks so much for your answer. Currently I am learning Italian and Danish as a complete beginner.

[@daysandwords]

OK so first step would probably be to pick one of them and spend about two months on it, without the other one. Then I would dive into graded content, like StoryLearning or books for very young children or something. StoryLearning is here - they're good courses, but a bit pricey. This is an affiliate link: learn.storylearning.com/uncovered-select-language37129904?affiliate_id=3626911 From there you can move on to real content that is meant for native speakers. You won't understand everything of ANY of the content you consume, but you'll gradually build up your understanding.

[@josefinegoldbrunn9877]

@@daysandwords Thank you very much for this valuable information and advice!

[@joshmilks]

@@daysandwords Would you recommend mastering the language in Duolingo first and then just get something like StoryLearning Intermediate and watch anime and other shows for continued learning as a "native" speaker? I want to learn spanish, then german as a spanish speaker, then two at the same time - french as a german speaker and italian as a spanish speaker. 6 month goal for spanish, then a 1 year goal for german and a 2 year goal for french and italian. Then I'll take a 5-10+ year stab at korean > japanese > chinese / mandarin. My retirement goal is to travel everywhere nearly nonstop and I want to be able to speak with the native people of each area in their native tongue.

[@Robert-z9z7d]

Thanks for the video. (Is there a good app you could recommend?)

[@daysandwords]

Speakly is the best for immersion, but they don't have tonnes of languages.

[@Robert-z9z7d]

@@daysandwords Thank you.

[@olivercollins6951]

Hi, just a question, what is the latest I could join a league? I'm thinking of joining on Sunday evening right before the week ends but I have heard that you can't join in the last 24 hours, is that true?

[@daysandwords]

I think it's actually after about Thursday, you can't join.

[@olivercollins6951]

@@daysandwords in that case I should probably join today before the day ends, right?

[@daysandwords]

I guess? I really don't know anymore.

[@olivercollins6951]

@@daysandwords ok, well thanks for taking the time to answer

[@kweizi5712]

I've won the diamond league once with less than 4000XP. Some are easier than others. Sometimes even in lower leagues, you get some people who earn those likings in just 1 day. I wouldn't 'waste' time trying to compete with these people.

[@duolingodiva]

Aaaah, thanks a lot for the tip!🤗

[@1080GBA]

0:30 so there was a guy in the emerald league with me and he somehow got 10k xp under 20 minutes like impossible

[@michaelnice2233]

Yes wish someone could explain how that works

[@frankiewelthagen5473]

Probably bought boosts to smash time in half on the matches - I can’t think of any other legit way they do it😬 I spend hours of any free time trying to beat the odds but its draining. Just not gonna do it anymore 😖

[@nycstev]

Yesterday I saw someone get 25000xP in about an hour. The leaderboard was going up in increments of 1000. Dosent make any sense. Must have hacked the software lol

[@nycstev]

@@frankiewelthagen5473

[@doyrte]

I perform about 160 xo per minute (boost+time trial) so i’d imagine the max humanly possible would be 240 per minute, 10k in under 20 minutes is insane, my pb is 100 xp in 9 seconds

[@STARDOG64]

Has this trick been patched or still working for doing lessons with waiting 2-4 days in league.

[@rikspector]

Lamont, My specialty is my ability to speak the languages well, somewhat parrotlike but I an actual learning them, and can knock out the points especially the 15 ninute doubles. I am a top 3 "winner" in diamond league many times but I do it for my mental health, I'm 82 and started in 2016 as a paying member. I do not cheat, I work within the rules, but this week the number one had over 90,000 points. These people easily get 100 to 150 points per lesson. I think it's their life. IT completely disses us and the idea of competition. I started with Spanish and can actually speak it a bit but I wonder why Duolingo doesn't concentrate on spoken language and sentences that are practical., wouldn't that be the way to go? Cheers, Rik Spector

[@iteoluwakiishiaberuagba]

Can I apply streak freeze four times so I can start on Friday? I'd just keep refilling after one is used.

[@beepbop8392]

I will confess. I was mostly doing lighting rounds in Duolingo, I would spend at least 1h on lighting rounds. Found out, that with correct boosts, you can do 4k exp/h and I was really happy doing it! Today, they added Match Madness instead of Lighting rounds, and you no longer can earn any exp from league events… it put me on a crazy, that I wont be able do be competitive… I was browsing internet to find answers until I popped up on this video. I wanted to thank you, guy on my screen! I forgot why I downloaded the app at this point. My original goal was to learn a language, and I just became a mindless gamer instead. So thanks for waking me up! I will turn off the leagues now, and I will never get competitive over a language again!

[@frau4bzna]

When do lightning rounds happen?

[@never_ending_studiokkswani85-3]

I have learned my second language only on Duolingo and I can communicate with others in that language perfectly fine. As a matter of fact I have been told, I make others have to bush up a bit and it’s their first language. Duo is a great tool!

[@daysandwords]

Bahahaha. This is an awesome troll.

[@never_ending_studiokkswani85-3]

@@daysandwords How Am I a troll? I was not being mean. I just believe Duolingo works really well for some minds. I was just showing a different point of view! Dang people are so quick to call others trolls, just for a having a different view on things. Your comments was not necessary. And a bit on the troll side of the bridge.

[@daysandwords]

@@never_ending_studiokkswani85-3 I didn't think you were trying to troll ME. I did genuinely think you were trolling Duolingo, through exaggerated sarscasm. Come on dude, seriously, Duolingo is so good that I make others feel that they have to brush up on their NATIVE language? Look I started with Duolingo and I now speak fairly fluent Swedish. But even I very rarely get anywhere near making a Swede feel as if they need to brush up, and if I do, it's because I've taken my Swedish about 5 or 6 times as far as Duo will ever take anyone. Saying that Duo does anything more than help someone get a bit of a footing in the language is like saying that you can compete in the MotoGP on a tricycle. Valentino Rossi may have started on a tricycle but that's all he did: started.

[@IzzyOnTheMove]

How can people be in the Diamond League if they have only 20XP after 2 days though? I'm at about 8.500 (in league not overall) LOL and i do 40 minutes a day. I do milk every double XP and do lightning rounds, but i don't buy any gems or any streak freezes. And i'm actually learning a 3rd language from a 2nd one. My 1st language is French but to learn Japanese you have to do it from English. Added difficulty coefficient but it's OK. I'm still gonna win every single league I'm in cuz i cannot not win 😆

[@aaenndeeerreeess]

I don't think climbing or competing in leagues helps to learn a language. In fact, I think, it makes learning less effective. I am on my way to get my diamond league win. Why do I do it? Because I am the victim of the gamification. I am completionist kind of person, and I just need to get the achievement and an icon, even if noone cares about it and I would never use it. After getting it, I have decided not to ever look at the leaderboards again. I also don't need to work hard to win it. I actually need to get less XP than I did climbing. What works for me is: 1. Joining the league late. I joined about 16 hours after the end of the previous week's results. 2. Using a consistent source of XP. For me it was a language that had an easy lightning rounds challenge, that gave insane amounts of XP (40, or 80 with a boost in less than 2 minutes). Would I suggest anyone to do that. No, unless you are a completionist like me. I think it hinders learning.

[@daysandwords]

"I don't think climbing or competing in leagues helps to learn a language." Yeah... that's why I specifically said that it isn't my goal.

[@aaenndeeerreeess]

@@daysandwords I did not try to say that you said something wrong. It was just sharing my opinion, and experience. I really like the video and agree with what was said in it.

[@andrealukacs7801]

Until I reached the Diamond League, I had won every level on the first week. That didn't take too much effort, I didn't do it to win the first place, I just liked practising the language. However in the Diamond League I realized winning it would take so much time and work that it's not worth it. After all the point of Duolingo is to learn, have a good time so I shouldn't sacrifice every minute of every day so that I could say, I have won this league too. Because if I do, then what? There's no next level, I can stay here as long as the course finishes or I finish learning so there's really no point. I am competitive but I am also sensible. :)

[@PraiseTheFSMonster]

You can get into the super diamond tournament after diamond league. If you get #1 after three weeks staying in the tournament, you get a special sparkling emoji

[@andrealukacs7801]

I was trying to say I don't want to win this leage. Especially not for some emoji. It's just not worth it.

[@PraiseTheFSMonster]

@andrealukacs7801 I'm not saying it's worth it, just that there's a hidden level past diamond

[@andrealukacs7801]

@@PraiseTheFSMonster oh, ok, then. Thanks. Sometimes I get into some kind of semi-finals but I couldn't care less. :)

[@srb93ma]

That's me, i always join at the end of Monday! I'm a UK resident, and it always resets at 10pm (Winter) or 11pm (Summer) on the Sunday. I managed to win a Diamond League Semi-Final tournament with 4,600 XP. Though the 2nd place person had 4,100 XP, so i did 500 too many..!

[@HaloHighlightz]

I have almost a 300 day streak and have noticed that if I go easy on the points until the last couple hours, I get placed with regular people and not the maniacs who get 100k points in one day lol I won Diamond League once and decided never again lol it’s not worth it for me, so now I only do enough to stay in a Diamond league

[@tapolahal-batoul]

Bruh this weeks diamond league i had to collect over 15000xp just to be in 3ed place, if i knew i was competing with menaces i wouldn't have put so much effort, i regret it, i will try your tip for next week's thanks for the vid

[@IzzyOnTheMove]

Hm. I'm on Ruby right now and i started a month ago. Been #1 by a far margin every league. I'm coming for you mate!!!!!!

[@IzzyOnTheMove]

oh and... i also have a job and a family and a cat and a KZbin channel and am a serial killer. 😉

[@titofat3680]

You just let the cat out of the bag😂😂😂.. That was my secret when I felt like competing . I don't do it anymore though coz I really want to take my time learning..

[@ADHDlanguages]

So if I just play Duolingo for 30 mins a day, I can learn any language I want? Sweet!!

[@joshmilks]

Yep, but for instance, spanish is the easiest language and there are 230 units, and at that rate you may learn 1 unit every 2 days, so it can take you a year and a half to master the units. Then the best way to stay in practice with that is to learn another language as a spanish speaker. Once you master that new language you can work on learning two at a time, one as a spanish speaker and another as a native speaker in that new language you just learned. That'll keep you learning and practicing the languages you already learned.

[@ADHDlanguages]

​@@joshmilksthis was meant to be a sarcastic comment. Even 30 mins a day of optimal input will be a very long road, and just doing 30 minutes of Duolingo every day is a great way to end up nowhere after a lot of years.

[@timeodelaplace2275]

Do you know how to see the top 20 of all duolinguistes in 2022? I am 12th but I don’t know where see this?

[@daysandwords]

Haha no I don't, but I would be interested to know.

[@IKEMENOsakaman]

Oh we know man, we know you are a cereal killer. You eat them every morning, right?

[@daysandwords]

Haha, I actually don't eat breakfast. I do eat cereal, but at lunch time. Just don't investigate any suspicious deaths in my city please.

[@masterp69]

i figured this out a few years ago not too long after I quit using duolingo. I find it nice when i'm FIRST learning a language for some training wheels, but I tire quickly of the game.

[@joshmilks]

A good way to keep practicing a language is to learn another language as a native speaker on the language you're trying to keep practice in. No need to stop learning!

[@NoreSantens]

I did about one month where i did 1 unit every day. Spanish units are pretty long btw.

[@z.alvarez1315]

Would you be able to update this now that the entire app has changed?

[@Z5Z5Z5]

Duolingo helped me build a habit. Its not the end all be all. But Im happy you have this video plus expressing real learning techniques