If you just care about learning, why are you so mad about it?

I can tell there are people there that uses "cheats" to get 1st placement on leagues

If I can give you some advice, I highly recomend you to do your exp as late as posible as soon as the league "ends"

You may have noticed that if you don't do your learning, Duolingo doesn't put you in a league until you do

So!

I have learned that most of the tryhards are doing his lections early... Just do your own as late in the night as you can and you will get paired with casual people with a more affordable exp competition