How to WIN the Duolingo DIAMOND LEAGUE (this works)

How to win the Duolingo Diamond League without cheating. This actually works!

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 The Best of the Best
00:32 Why do you care?
01:35 If you only watch ONE part
02:10 How Duolingo leagues really work
03:59 If yaw goal is just to win
04:37 But what about zones?
05:22 Will this video break Duolingo?
06:19 It feels good to win

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[daysandwords]

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[sat_]

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.

[VOIPninga]

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.

[marithietbrink]

Duolingo for me is a way that motivates me to actually do something. I have dyslexia and autism and probably also adhd. I get distracted and discouraged very easily and duolingo is kinda low bar fun competitiom style language learning and for that i love it. I never have to use the language for real, but doing something is kinda nice

[MegF]

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?

[timotei]

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 YouTube

[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.

[flawyerlawyertv]

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.

[cappybenton]

Thanks for this video. This is so true. I’m #4 in the gold league right now with 3000 XP. But the three people above me have two times or three times as many points! Reminds me, how surprised I was when a friend with an MBA got addicted to Candy crush. Duolingo can in fact be a huge time waster. I’m gonna take your advice and spend the bulk of my language learning time listening to videos and podcasts in French. But having said that I do like Duolingo.

[EH-dwwb]

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

[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.

[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

[daki]

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?

[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 !

[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?!

[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 😄

[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

[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.

[trumplostlol]

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.

[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 ❤