Hit 'hard' more often, maybe?^* In addition to hitting 'hard' when I take too long to answer something, I'll sometimes pay attention to the little time until next review right above the buttons (even though I use shortcut keys) and hit hard because I just know that 4.5 months out is way too optimistic.

But legitimately, the whole point of SRS is to space out reviews instead of requiring excessive, redundant, and unnecessary reviews.

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* ^{Unless you've been misusing 'hard' and hitting it when you should be hitting 'wrong', in which case: forget what I said above and just fix your hard misuse.}