Yeah I've had the same problem before and currently going through it right now, best thing to do is just persevere. Keep in mind that your a bit rusty and don't allow it to knock your confidence as you understand it'll go away with practice. Rather than just your daily workout set maybe a 20-30 minute task to only do one game where you want to improve most for the whole time.

I've also experienced best progress when focusing on a single game a bit longer, and on a single sound set within the game.

I've experienced progress trouble with the games and sounds changing all the time. I tend to "calibrate" my ears on one game + soundset, and try to get to the next level with that. Sometimes it works, sometimes it's tens of rage quits haha!

This is just a suggestion and slightly off question, but maybe it would be useful to evaluate how the workouts are helping you? I usually find things easier after a busy period of working on music as I've spent the time listening more carefully in real-world situations and developed my ear further. I think it's a matter of applying things you learn to hear in the gym in a conscious way to your work.

Another thing is that I find that if I''m not succeeding at a certain game (or mix task when I'm mixing) then move on and come back to it later. Your hearing is slightly different every day depending on what you've eaten, how much sleep you had, stress levels, energy levels, concentration and so many factors. I've noticed that different games are easier on different days and even at different times of the day. So my advice is if something is not happening for you, don't stress yourself out, just move on and come back to it later.

I'm finding myself being frustrated because of lack of progress. I know, keep at it .

Thanks everyone. @Ralph Stokes I have certainly valued the focus and ability that this training provides. And much of the work I have been doing is mixing and live sound, so I am certainly applying these skills. And I would not say that I'm worried that I can't mix well because I am a little rusty at the games, in fact, I think my mixes are getting better every day. I just want to hone my ears even further, I love getting better at this stuff. I love working with my ears. So I guess I'm not stressed so much as positively wanting to resume progress and feeling like I need focus.

I like the suggestions of focusing on certain exercises, I do believe this will be the way forward. I guess I just needed someone to say it lol. I haven't needed to chunk these exercises until now, but I'm off my roll and they just keep getting harder!

Btw one observation just from this morning. I've thought I have a decent "absolute" ear for frequencies already. And sometimes it is. Not this morning though. I started working on EQ Knight, and somehow the ear "calibration" was just off, just the whole frequency scale was a bit (well, way) off.

I realised a good warmup practice for EQ games is playing EQ Cheetah on a one chosen soundset. Not to progress on EQ Cheetah, but rather just warm up and calibrate the ears. It provides different frequencies fast, with very fast feedback on how they sounded again.

That helps with all the EQ games, I think.

I've not skipped my workouts for a while but I also experienced difficulty to progress daily on all workouts. Sometimes your SPI won't even gain 1 point.
However, I have lately seen a great improvement by just doing some deep breathe work right before starting, keeps my focus clear. Also some ear calibration with white noise can help before starting a game. Anyway, I always do at least 3 times each workout's game so that I have time to get used again to the game.
Nothing mind blowing here but I hope it will help.

Training our ears, playing an instrument, learning a new language is lever a linear progression, it's more like waddling through the swamp of non-progress, to the jungles of little progress, to the sunny beach of ecstasy on account of all progress that was done and where we feel really happy because of where we got and before you know it the sun stops shinning and back to the swamp again.

It's a test, this life.
How much do you love it? How much do you want it?

Never give up fellow sound engineers. RAGE, RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT!

I forgot the most important point for motivation: every time I pass a level, I scream the hell out like if my football team had win the world cup 😂

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Is there a way to exclude games from being picked in your daily training? Like the delay game I'm not really bothered about and I would like the more volume and frequency games to appear more often as that's where I want my focus to be.

@David Bryant, yes you can. When you go to your account, click on account settings and choose Training preferences.
When SMART training is off, you can select or deselect the games manually.