Duolingo Leagues consist of a competitive group of 50 diverse users. In this system, Duolingo places you in a league where you can compete to earn the most experience points (XP) within a week.

You can get the Leagues under the defensive icon on the Duolingo application. If you don’t choose to join the leagues, you may not have finished enough lessons in Duolingo yet.

How much effort is required to climb the leaderboards? How easily do you catch your target language by trying to rack up as many points as you can? All these may look quite bothersome to you. If you dislike programmed competition, it’s essentially a troublemaker, as it doesn’t complicate the rat race at all.

In this article, we will cover how to improve levels from league to league, tricks on how to beat the competition in the Diamond league, and how to pause your League advancement so that you don’t fall back all in the earlier Leagues (like most users did!) So here you go!

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Tip #1

  1. Choose your battles wisely.
  2. Don’t jump right in as soon as the league’s open for the week.
  3. Postpone it as much as you can and connect late on day 1, or perhaps even on day 2 (I’ve never tried it, though).

Since this is the normal consensus, you’re categorised into a league that starts at around the same time as you, so this way, you won’t be paired up with radicals who would halt your victory for nothing to put up insensitively large scores.

Tip #2

Don’t try to win every tournament on your way up to the Diamond League. Sometimes it is just betting on the bush. You’re here for the #1 Diamond achievement, and you might also discover a podium in the others, which would give you a few miserable lingots.

Focus on your target prize. Though it can be tempting, save your energy. Put sufficient numbers to reach the top 10 each time. The two league-linked achievements are (Diamond) and (in any league). You can hit them both if you get first in Diamond on your initial try.

Tip #3

Save your stories. It is only for those courses that have stories and from which you can earn XP. They are a great source of XP, but actually, there’s only a certain number of times you can do them till they stop giving you XP (around ten or so). So save on them.

Climb up to the fruitful and exciting stories with max XP to gain from (around 28 XP in French), unlock a good amount of them (like unlock about 30-40), and then wait for D-week.

Tip #4

Using the mobile App. Talking from an Android perspective, the XP added from classes is much better with the mobile app than the website. The latter provides 10 (+5 bonus) points for reviewing a gold (fully completed Level 5) lesson, though the former gives 20 (+5 bonus) points for a similar purpose.

Tip #5

Turn off attending and speaking exercises. Turn off motivational posts and other time-consuming stuff. These will only reduce the pace of the activity when you are in the zone. The dark mode is also very helpful.

Tip #6

Whenever you need to make a push to grab that first place (reminder, only do this in Diamond League, don’t bother going any higher than top 10 in the leagues below), get well-versed in your lessons first.

You need to get 25 XP per lesson per day, and you can easily rack up 1000 XP in an hour by running through 40 lessons. Of course, it helps if you’re insightful and adept in your skill tree to do this. Then, fear not, stories are here for your liberty.

Therefore, the burden to function on Duolingo can feel amazing. Some users are trying to learn different languages through lessons by reading books, TV shows, and movies to be fluent in the desired language, and practicing pronunciation and vocabulary by reading them aloud.

That’s not a wrap here. Some of the aged users are also actively participating to learn different languages.

On the other hand, it has been recognized that users who seem to sit and do 200XP in a day have recognized the pressure given by the users. What are they up to? Is that an IV drip? Or if they are looking for a dark underground where someone takes them to all their meals.

The intention to learn should be according to one’s own pace and augmented with the rest of the resources. They should have discovered that in almost two weeks, and comprehend dialogues from famous TV shows and books that one can follow to upgrade their knowledge and thinking skills.