Memverse Badges
Posted on April 18, 2012
We are excited to announce that the first three badges have been released so you can start working towards earning those. Remember, the badges are supposed to be rare and difficult to achieve. It is highly unlikely that anyone will be able to earn all, or even most of, the badges.
The first badge is the 'Sermon on the Mount' badge. As you can probably guess, this badge is awarded once you have memorized Matthew 5-7.
The second badge is the 'Consistency' badge which will be awarded to people who consistently complete their memorization sessions. To earn a gold badge you will need to complete 350 memorization sessions in a year. The silver badge will require 320 and the bronze badge 280.
The final badge is the 'Referrer' badge and is awarded to those people who have done a stellar job spreading the word about Memverse. You need to have 200, 100, and 50 active referrals to earn that badge.
The badges are awarded when you complete a memorization session or when you visit the 'My Progress' page. At the moment we have it set so that you won't ever lose a badge once you've earned it.
A huge thank you to Dakota Lynch for designing the badges. I think he did an absolutely brilliant job!
Finally, we would love to hear more ideas for badges. Our plan is to keep releasing new badges over time.
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The earliest you could get the bronze consistency badge would be ten months after you signed up if you never missed a day.
That's really cool! Thanks for all the work you guys do making Memverse better and better! :-) (Don't worry - I already think it's great, but it's aways getting better) :-) Keep up the good work!
I'm glad to see you were able to use some of my designs, Andy! Now I just need to work on earning some of these badges...
Thank you! Is there some way to see them? Everyone's saying how cool they look...did I miss something? :)
EDIT-- Oh! I found it! Wow, those look great! Thank you so much! It will be a loooooong time before I'll be able to earn any. I love how when you scroll over them it tells you what they are! The pictures are so beautiful and self-explanatory, though, you hardly even need it!
Sadly, I'm definitely not going to get them. I can't do this every day...don't have time! :( I want to see them though!
BBJ12, click on someone's (or yours) name to go tho their profile, you can see them there! They're pretty neat.
Congratulations God's Bondslave for memorizing the Sermon on the Mount!!!!!!!!!
@Emily Hamilton - thanks!
Good idea, Emily! a "1000 verses badge would be AWESOME!
Thanks for the badges, Andy, an thanks for designing them Dakota!
Guess I'm going to start with chapters for that Semon one. Great work, and hope we'll have more badges.
EDIT: You know you are going to make my brain implode with adding more memory verses. But it's a good thing, because I have a passion for doing this.
Yay!! So glad the badges are here!!!
I had a couple of ideas for badges yesterday when I read this blog. A Ten Commandments Badge could be good and not quite so difficult as the Sermon on the Mount. Also what if ya'll created badges for some of the group memorization projects? For instance an Elijah badge for those who complete the Elijah project and another badge for those who complete the New Testament One Year Challenge. Just a thought. :)
Great idea! I love it!
This is a little off topic, but I incorrectly entered Acts 20:1 in the KJV. I would appreciate it if someone would please delete it. Thanks!
Thomas: If you go to your "My Verses" page, on the right column of Acts 20:1, it will say either Editable, Pending, or Verified. If it is editable, then you can click 'editable' to edit the verse manually. If it is pending it will be checked by an admin/user soon. If it is verified, you can click 'verified' and it will be flagged with an error for an admin/user to check out soon.
Hope this helps!
There should be a "Psalmist" Badge. You could get it after you have memorized so many chapters of Psalms.
There could also be a "Historian" Badge. You would get this one after you have memorized so many chapters from Genesis through Deuteronomy.
I think it would be cool to have a badge for memorizing so many complete books of the Bible.
The badge idea is great !
I think a progressive badge reward system would be encouraging as well.
as follows:
50
100
500
1000
etc.
Along with other achievement badges.
I have experienced that if you give people something to shoot for, a goal, then people try harder.
I think giving achievement badges at low levels would help encourage those just starting out in their memory work, to feel like there making progress.
The Newbie's that are just starting out, may take a look at the Veterans here that have thousands of verses memorized ( God Bless em) and think " Geese I'll never catch up or ever get a badge" I think encouragement in progressing is the name of the game here and helping others to do the same, and I think the badge system could really be a fun incentive.
Can we get a nice sound affect as well when we reach an achievement ? DING!
Anyway just my 2 cents. Thank you and God bless you!
I like all the badge Ideas :) especially John projects idea...nevery 100 verses or something?
Here's an idea... What if you have badges for the Bible Bee...if you memorize all the assigned verses...you get a badge...
Or...
Badges for Scripture memory projects... Like Romans, 1 Kings Project or 1 Peter F.E...
John- that's just what I was thinking I Am fairly new and it will take me a long time to get any of these badges. Maybe there could be a new member badge, that you would get after you complete you first memorization session?
I agree with the basic Badge premise that these need to be rare and difficult to achieve, making them well-earned. They have more value the harder they are to achieve. It doesn't sustain their value well if they could be given out like token trophies for participation, etc.
Maybe there can be "Ribbons" for easier accomplishments, like just starting; first 100, then 500, 1,000, etc.; first chapter; an entire book (of the books containing 3 chapters or less).
Here are some Badge ideas that you might want to consider for the future (and I doubt I'll ever achieve any of these):
1) The Entire Book Badge -- BRONZE: For memorizing a book with 4 - 9 chapters in length; SILVER: For a book with 10 - 19 chapters; GOLD: For a book with 20 - 34 chapters. PLATINUM: For a book with 35 or more chapters.
2) The Genealogies Badge -- BRONZE: For those who successfully memorize the combination of the Genesis 5, Matthew 1:1-16 & Luke 3:23-38 passages that list some of the basic and more well-known genealogies. SILVER: For those who, in addition to the Bronze passages, also memorize Genesis chap. 10, chap. 11:10-32, chap. 25:12-17, chap. 35:23-26, and chap.36, as well as Exodus 6:14-25 and 1 Chronicles 1-2. GOLD: With all the above passages, add 1 Chronicles 3-8.
3) The Inheritance Badge -- BRONZE: For those who memorize the cities and borders of 7 of the 13 tribes of Israel (Joseph had a double inheritance with Ephraim & Manasseh), listed in Joshua chap. 13 - 21 (not including Judah or Levi). SILVER: The former 7 tribes, plus 3 more, which can include Levi & its allotted cities and borders. GOLD: The former 10 tribes, plus the final 3, including Judah.
4) The Atonement Badge -- BRONZE: For those who memorize from Christ's entrance into the Garden of Gethsemane to pray all the way through His death, burial & resurrection and to His ascension in the accounts given in Mark & Luke. SILVER: With Mark & Luke, adding Matthew's account; GOLD: With the first three gospel accounts, adding John's account.
5) The Levitical Badge -- BRONZE: For those memorizing all the laws and instructions related to offerings and sacrifices in Leviticus (i.e., sin offering, trespass offering, heave offering, peace offering, burnt offering, grain offering etc.); SILVER: All offerings & sacrifices, plus all the laws regarding diet/food, unclean animals, leprosy, and feast days; GOLD: Add the ceremonial laws listed in Leviticus 19 & 20.
These are just some suggestions, but they would be quite difficult to accomplish; they would also help along those who intend to learn all of Scripture in Its entirety. These could be some good incentives.??
I can not wait to earn one of those badges .my birthday was on April 10 now I am 10 and I got my ears pierced :D
This is cool!
I have been on Memverse since July,, but I have been slow in memorizing verses-only recently memorizing my 100th-so I think John project's idea for badges at certain numbers of verses would be a really good idea.
There are some great ideas here! I like the idea of being able to get a badge or two no matter which 'style' of memorization you go for.
There should be trophies, badges, and ribbons (which Wretched man suggested). Badges take moderate work to obtain, ribbons are take some (but not too much work), and trophies which would be the ULTIMATE achievement, taking lots of work.
There could be a badge for memorizing one verse from every single book of the Bible.
I LOVE the badges idea! Wow! Amazing! Thanks you, Dakota, for designing them! I can't wait to see them all!
Will you make leader boards for the different badges? Or would that be just too crazy?
I like 'levels of hardness'. Something to work super hard for and something to work for, but not quite so hard. I love the ribbon idea! I also think that the badges should maybe be a little bit smaller. I really like the badges for whole Books memorized idea. Why recognize verses and chapters memorized, but not whole Books of the Bible? Memorizing the Book itself is quite enough of a reward, but it always fun and encouraging to earn something new. :)
One more thing, along with the Sermon on the Mount badge, there should be badges for other passages of scripture. Someone mentioned the Ten Commandments. How about 1 Corinthians 13 also?
@john project and Wretched man - good idea, both of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think that would be great since I don't think I can finish these badges...:( *tears*
LOVE these ideas!! I am especially excited since I am planning on memorizing the entire Bible and therefore will get... well, all of the badges for memorization of passages. True, these badges are not necessary, but they sure are a great incentive! And also, with such a high bar for the "Referrer" badges, I'm sure many more people will be joining Memverse soon! And on that topic, will all of the referrals need to be active? Or could we just do it where you can count each referred person as a referral, whether they or active or not? I'll be thinking about some suggestions for new badges... This will be so cool!!
Okay, so I think I've got a few ideas...
1) A "Longest Chapter" Badge for memorizing Psalm 119.
2) A "Longest Book" Badge for memorizing all of the Psalms.
3) A "Longest Verse" Badge for memorizing Esther 8:9?? (May or may not be a good idea...)
4) An "Entire Bible" Badge for memorizing the entire Bible.
I'll be thinking of more suggestions... and maybe starting to memorize the Sermon on the Mount! :)
P.S. Thanks, Dakota, for designing the first few badges!
Congratulations to God's Bondslave, Jonathan Staddon, Phil Walker, Barak Lundberg, and Kelsey Kemerly for being awarded the Sermon on the Mount Badge; and to MarcWMills for being awarded a gold Consistency Badge... keep up the good work!
Wow. A gold Consistency badge is amazing. Definitely congrats for only missing 15 days in the past year, MarcWMills.
There should be a badge for memorizing Hebrews 11 - a "Hall of Faith" badge. There should also be a badge for memorizing the 100 popular verses on the popular verses page - a "Top 100 Verses" badge.
@ Andy- Could the memverse team work on making a "ribbon" system (which Wretched Man suggested), similar to the badges system, only easier? Also, are there any upcoming badges?
There should be Group Badges - you would get them when you memorize a group project, e.g. 1 Peter for the Memorize 1 Peter Group.
Great badges, Dakota! I had been slowly adding the Sermon on the Mount, but with the new Sermon on the Mount badge, I just added Matthew 6-7 and I am planning to start perfecting them right away!
There should be a badge for memorizing each book of the Bible. I've wished before that there was a way to put on the Home Dashboard when someone has memorized a book when I memorized 1 and 2 Peter. That might be a good way to do that.
EDIT: There should also be badges for getting exceptional scores with the Reference Recall/Accuracy Test. Maybe 90% for Bronze, 95% for Silver, 99 or 100% for Gold?
EDIT EDIT: One more thing: Could there be a column on the leaderboard for how many badges each user has?
@Emily Hamilton: I like the 1 Corinthians 13 badge idea :) Maybe a "Love Chapters" badge for memorizing 1 Corinthians 13, and maybe Galatians 5:15-26?
Ooooohh Idea! Maybe there could be a "Blessed's" badge when you memorize Psalm's 1, Matthew 5:3-12, and Proverbs 31:10-31.
I'm liking all these ideas--but Super401, I think there's a kink in one of your suggestions. The proposed badge for memorizing the 100 most popular verses would of necessity be tentative (since the most popular verses are not always the same), and therefore would not be entirely practical. But it was a good idea on the whole...
Okay, a couple new suggestions:
1) A "Creation Story" badge for memorizing Genesis 1:1-2:4 or so.
2) A badge for each book of the Bible memorized.
There should be a Romans Road badge. Also, when you mouse over a badge under Account, you should see the requirements.
Wow, these are great ideas for badges, guys. I really like Wretched Man's suggestions about things like whole books and genealogies. It would keep them pretty hard to attain (except for if you memorize 2 John or something like that:) and also encourage people to maybe memorize some lesser-known parts of Scripture, like the ceremonial laws. Personally, I like the idea of making the badges something really hard to get, but then also having "ribbons" for smaller goals along the way.
Congratulations, Jonathan Staddon, on memorizing your 1000th verse! May you continue to hide more of God's Word in your heart!
I've got some new suggestions for badges (sorry I haven't been able to think of any that include bronze, silver, and gold badges...):
1) A badge for each section of the Bible memorized, including a "History Badge", "Wisdom Badge", "Prophecy Badge", "Gospels Badge", and "Epistles Badge".
2) A badge for each half of Scripture memorized: "Old Testament Badge" and "New Testament Badge".
Maybe we could have badges for tagging a certain percentage of our verses--bronze for 90%, silver for 95%, and gold for 100%?
What about Badges for Memorizing all of the old testament and the new testament
Sounds like a great idea! I was just wondering why they show up on my dashboard already, but I guess they will "brighten up" or whatever when I actually earn them?
I agree with follower of God....a badge for memorizing the old testament and/or the new testament. Also, I think there should be one for memorizing all of the gospels, or all of the Pentateuch.
I love the incentive these things bring!
Wow, the entire old testament and new testament? That would be really neat!! Maybe those could be trophies, if they decide to do trophies and ribbons as well as badges. :)
@{CLM} - Every time you finish reviewing the verses due for the day and it takes you to your progress report, you have completed a memorization session. :)
It won't let me click on anybody's name, so I can't see any of their badges. :(
EDIT: Nevermind
Yes you can.
Via the blog post
"The second badge is the 'Consistency' badge which will be awarded to people who consistently complete their memorization sessions. To earn a gold badge you will need to complete 350 memorization sessions in a year. The silver badge will require 325 and the bronze badge 300."
Are you talking about having all three of them at the same time, Abigail? If you are, then I don't think so. I think you can only have one badge at a time. @Zach - We are answering different questions, so that's why my answer differs from yours.
As soon as I heard about the Sermon on the Mount badge, I started learning the chapters... I haven't memorized anything yet according to Memverse, but I'm almost started learning all three! I'll probably start memorizing chapter 5 on Memverse soon. :)
Congratulations, Wretched Man/Dad for memorizing your 1600th verse! I will catch up to you soon!! ;P
@Rachel - 3 chapters for the Semon on the Mount? IT's just a lot thats all :) i actually thought it was only about 14 verses or something...
Alright, some new ideas for Memverse badges:
1) As Jackie Chase mentioned earlier, badges for memorizing certain amounts of verses--how about 1,000 verses for a bronze badge, 5,000 for a silver, and 10,000 for a gold?
2) For the ones who do not plan on memorizing huge portions of Scripture, we could just have "Chapter Ribbons"--a small one for memorizing a chapter with 15-29 verses, a medium one for a chapter with 30-59 verses, and a large one for a chapter with over 60 verses.
3) Small medals for easy feats--such as passing level 5, memorizing 100 verses, referring 5 people, raising accuracy to 40% or reference recall to 75%, etc.
4) Instead of badges, how about trophies for huge feats such as memorizing the Old or New Testaments, an ultimate trophy for memorizing the Bible, and maybe one for referring... 500 people??
So, I propose that we should have medals for easy, ribbons for a little hard, badges for quite hard, and trophies for really hard. Are these good ideas?
P.S. I am going crazy waiting for new badges!! Are they gonna be here soon?? :)
I love those ideas, @SBG! I'm not quite going crazy for new badges yet, but I'm coming close... :)
@SBG - totally great!!!!!!!!! :) I love those ideas... I need something A LITTLE easier! :)
this is not good I was entering a verse psalm 9:4 and it did not have it in NASB so I had to type it in to enter it and when i pressed enter I accidentally hit the letter k and I did not know it Intel I looked at it and it is in the verse when you look it up and I do not know what to do
This sounds great. I don't have any of these badges yet and won't have any for a while but am looking forward to getting some.
Congratulations, Hope, on memorizing the Sermon on the Mount. I have loved those 3 chapters for years.
I wrote a play called Sermon on the Mount where one student quoted all 3 chapters and other students acted out scenes illustrating many of the verses. Many of the scenes can serve as stand alone skits.
The whole play can be found on Youtube by searching for "Sermon on the Mount Upton Lake Christian School"
My favorite scene is a game show that asks an intense hypothetical question based on MATTHEW 6:21
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfqdnOTPMNM
Some of the scenes can be hard to hear on youtube. If anyone wants the script for any of the scenes, I would be glad to email it to them. philjohn1558@yahoo.com
I like this! I am motivated now to working my way towards the Sermon On The Mount by Labor Day! And the consistency badge has me making sure I get on here every day to memorize and add more verses if I don't have any for review.
I'm about to finish the Sermon on the Mount on next Tuesday!! My first badge! :)
P.S. Are the new badges close to being ready??? :D I'm getting a little excited... :)
I've finally memorized Matthew 5-7!!! But... where is the badge? Am I supposed to wait for something? :)
SBG - did you complete your entire memorization session for today? If not, try visiting the progress graph page ('My Progress') and that should trigger it.
Yes, I did. But maybe I just need to my session today; that might do something. :) Thanks for the information, though. :)
EDIT--I completed my session for today, and went to the progress chart, but nothing has shown up on my account yet. Please don't feel obligated to check into this now, however; I understand if you have plenty more on your mind than my little problem. I'll wait however long I need to. :)
For about a year. Over the past few months, when the badges first came out, I began memorizing the Sermon on the Mount to get the badge. :)
I've completed 287 sessions, but I don't have a badge. Is there a reason?
@Rachel: you need to have completed 287 sessions in the past year. The number reported on your account page is for all time. The number you see at the end of a memory session is the number you have completed in the past year.
Speaking of this, I just got a bronze Consistency badge... but I have only done 293 sessions in the past year, not 300. I've noticed that a lot of people have been getting bronze Consistency badges in the past day. Is there a glitch or something?
@Nicolas - They changed the post to this - "To earn a gold badge you will need to complete 350 memorization sessions in a year. The silver badge will require 320 and the bronze badge 280."
Congratulations on getting another badge!
I had an idea that maybe to make the Sermon on the Mount Badge easier, we should have 3 levels of it like we have with the others. The levels could be s follows:\
Bronze= Memorize all of Matthew 5
Silver= Bronze plus memorize all of Matthew 6
Gold= Silver plus Memorize all of Matthew 7
Just an idea. Can't wait for more badges.
My little brother suggested that maybe you could make an Armor of God Badge for memorizing all of Ephesians 6:10-18.
Or, as has been suggested before, different badges could be made for chapter memorization, based on the length of the chapter.
there are a lot of GREAT ideas for other badges... are there in really in the works??
also as far as the consistency badge is that going to reset on Jan 1 2013? or is it figured on an individualized plan by when you joined?
today i memorized my 600th verse! really love the memverse program that is helping me learn and recall God's word! thanks to all who keep this site going!
I can answer the question about the Consistency Badge: It's based off the last 365 days, not the present calendar year.
Alex - I thought I had heard somewhere before that when we memorize our 1,000th verse, we're able to delete our own blog comments. I've memorized over 1,000 verses, but I'm still not able to. It doesn't matter that much, but I would like to be able to delete some of my old comments that are outdated.
AstroLeah - LOL. You're right that it was that way, once upon a time. The idea was that people with that many verses could help moderate the blog comments. But now there is another outlet for all that talk we want to do (i.e. the forums), and so the blog comments don't need as much moderation. :)
Wait...I'm confused. Are there gold, silver, *and* bronze referrer badges? 50 for bronze, 100 for silver, and 200 for gold, or what? (Because they mentioned, up at the top, that to get the referrer badge, you have to get 50, 100, and 200 referrals.)
a good badge might be the learning badge. 500 verses learning for bronze, 1,000 for silver, and 2,000 for gold.
I finally got my gold consistency badge yesterday! I've been working on it since the badges came out! I'm so excited! Now I'm going to focus on telling people about Memverse. I'm going to try to get a referral badge. ;-)
Great job, Abi! I'm trying to get the Gold Consistency Badge as well. :) That referral badge, though... that will be a bit more difficult. :)
You're telling me! Especially since I only have one referral so far. :-)
Praise God, Abi. Great to hear of others excited about sharing the word about Memverse. The key to a high referral score is to refer some who then get so excited about Memverse that they in turn tell others about Memverse and your score keeps going up.
That's great, Abi!!! I'm working on mine too but I'm stuck at 342 sessions. I guess I'll have to hit a few more days that I missed last year.
So... I really hate to sound impatient, but... are the other badges going to come out anytime soon??? :)
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They're great! Will users have to wait till their first "account birthday" to receive a consistency badge, (that is, if one is due them), or till the end of this year?
Dakota did a great job!