Why I Built a Simple Quiz App
A personal take on the reason that made me create Wardscore : exploration of how fragmented time, memory science, and building a simple quiz app reshaped my understanding of how learning actually compounds.
Introduction
For most of my early career, I believed learning had to be serious to be effective.
Courses. Books. Long videos saved for “when I have time.”
If it wasn’t structured and slightly painful, it probably didn’t count.
That belief stayed with me longer than it should have.
I’m a 30 year old engineer. I like building things. And over the years, I’ve noticed something uncomfortable: the way we say learning works rarely matches how it actually happens in real life.
Especially once work, commuting, and mental fatigue enter the picture.
That gap is what led me to build something that looks almost trivial at first glance: a quiz app.
1. We’re Taught Learning Is an Event. It’s Actually a Process.
Most of us were trained to think of learning as a dedicated activity.
You sit down. You focus. You finish a chapter. You move on.
That model breaks down quickly outside school. Not because people are lazy, but because attention is fragmented by default now.
What actually works is exposure over time. Small, repeated contact with ideas until they stick.
This isn’t new. The forgetting curve has been around for over a century. Spaced repetition has been proven repeatedly. Yet most tools still assume long, uninterrupted focus.
A quiz, revisited at the right intervals, fits how memory really works not how we wish it worked.
2. What Feels Productive Often Isn’t What Compounds
Watching a long video feels productive. You’re doing something visibly “serious.”
Answering five questions on your phone while waiting for a train doesn’t.
But the second one compounds.
The brain remembers what it is forced to retrieve, not what it passively consumes. Testing isn’t a checkpoint at the end of learning. It is the learning.
That realization changed how I thought about tool design.
The goal wasn’t depth in a single session. It was frictionless repetition across many small sessions.
3. Free Time Exists. It’s Just Scattered.
People often say they don’t have time to learn.
What they usually mean is they don’t have large, uninterrupted blocks of time.
Commutes. Waiting rooms. Elevators. Those moments are abundant, but cognitively light. They’re perfect for recall, not for heavy input.
A simple quiz app respects that reality. Open, answer, close. No setup. No context switching penalty.
Learning stops competing with life and starts riding alongside it.
Stepping Back
We’re often told that learning comes from intensity: long hours, endless repetition, pushing harder.
But I noticed something different. The most effective learning isn’t about doing more : it’s about doing it in a way your brain actually remembers but also doing it in a way that fits best your own habits :
That’s why I created Wardscore. It’s a quiz app designed to make learning fun and effortless. You pick the categories you care about, and Wardscore automatically generates question sets optimized for your memory.
No wasted time. No endless review. Just a simple, personalized system that turns practice into progress—and makes remembering what you learn enjoyable.
That’s exactly what Wardscore is built to do.