I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for adding the feature to sort videos by difficulty level. I can imagine that it took a lot of time, having to analyze all of the videos that have been made. But as someone who has watched all of the total beginner/beginner videos from oldest to newest a couple of times, I can say that my latest challenge of watching them all sorted by difficulty level is going much smoother, as some videos were noticeably easier/harder than other in the old sort order.
Feel free to delete this post, but I am really enjoying this new feature and wanted to pass that message on
I really wanted to give my appreciation as well, and also a big thumbs up for how reasonably well the difficulty has been ranked. I only started mid-Jan, so I’ve now done about half-n-half of my time on CIJ with and without the new ranking.
I was at the Complete Beginner → Beginner transition at the time and was struggling with finding suitable videos, but this has been a game changer.
There have been some outliers (I have noted 3 so far in the 30-40 range which were far too difficult for their score) but these have been for reasons which would be very difficult for the algorithm (lack of supporting imagery, subjectively difficult, etc). I’m ignoring Lets Play here. So I would say that’s a very good success rate.
I’ve reached the late-40s with some early Intermediates being mixed in and I can notice that they are all becoming difficult now, which is probably a good sign I’m at my current limit
Thanks for saying that! Do you know which three videos so far seemed weird? That would be helpful for me to know to see if I can tweak the difficulty calculation.
Sure thing, it was these 3 for me. I haven’t re-watched any of them for a few weeks now, so unsure if they’ll be clearer for me now, I’ll give them another try at some point. I think they’re the first vids in the ranking with little visual support, so it may be they may be similar difficulty transcript-wise but just not for overall comprehensibility.
I’m happy to hear it’s working out much better for you 
