1722 verses of the Odyssey are now in my active recall testing system. This means that I have more or less firmly memorised about 14.2% of the epic.
Last week I transcribed 827 verses from memory, from γ17 to δ346 (lines 896-1722). diff diagnosed some fault or other in 26 of those lines, therefore the error rate was 3.1%. In comparison, in the three weeks prior, my line-error rates were 6.4%, 4.8% and 4.9%. And in the roughly 25 weeks of the year so far, I only managed to get 3% on one other occasion. So this was a rare feat for me.
Another special thing about the last recall test was that I went on not one, but two 100+ line streaks free of error!
As usual I drew a stacked bar graph to show the severity of errors and the line ranges in which they occurred:
LINES ERRORS
----- ------
896-1000 .
1001-1100 o.
1101-1200 xxooo
1201-1300 x
1301-1400 x
1401-1500 oo.
1501-1600 Xx..
1601-1722 Xxxxxooo.
As noted yesterday, only two lines contained an entirely incorrect word. These are the category 4 errors marked 'X' (big X) on the graph. Error symbols for category 3 and lower are: 'x' (little x) for incorrect word-endings, 'o' for misspellings and mis-accentuation, and '.' (dot) for minor errors.