Lists of competencies and achievements
Feb. 18th, 2015 10:23 amSometimes I long for a list of competencies and achievements for a particular craft, so one can measure how skilled one is, and tick off when a new competency is acquired. In games, these things are pretty standard by now. For example, I play World of Tanks, and you start with a training mission. First, you learn to drive your tank, then you lean how to shoot your cannon, and then you learn sniper mode. Later on you have missions (these were recently introduced) that are aimed particularly at the strong characteristics of certain tank types. For a tank destroyer, one mission focuses on shooting and destroying a target from 300 meters or more, or killing an opponent while remaining unspotted (hilarious to do in a Hetzer, not so much fun when you're the target).
( Achievement unlocked! )
Personally, I think it would be fun to have this (perhaps as a part of Ravelry) on a website, so you can tick off things you've done or mastered and find new ways of challenging yourself. I'm sure the above list is in no way complete, and I've sniffed at a few things but haven't really done them right or mastered them yet. It would be even better if each of the listed items was linked to a tutorial and/or video so you could learn the technique right away. And of course, you could link your project to the achievement, so you can always look up what your first brioche project was.
Considering Ravelry has a big List of feature requests that has requests queued since 2007, I'm not hopeful of seeing this on their website any time soon, but I'm willing to send it in as a feature request. The rest of the site seems full of other statistical nerdness, so this might appeal to them too.
ETA: This was already mentioned as a "Goal List" here. I'll reply to that topic and see if anything has since happened with it since 2009.
As for sewing, the list will be quite big and huge and entail most of what is in my sewing techniques binder from school. I'm not even going to start thinking about that one. But wouldn't it be fun!
( Achievement unlocked! )
Personally, I think it would be fun to have this (perhaps as a part of Ravelry) on a website, so you can tick off things you've done or mastered and find new ways of challenging yourself. I'm sure the above list is in no way complete, and I've sniffed at a few things but haven't really done them right or mastered them yet. It would be even better if each of the listed items was linked to a tutorial and/or video so you could learn the technique right away. And of course, you could link your project to the achievement, so you can always look up what your first brioche project was.
Considering Ravelry has a big List of feature requests that has requests queued since 2007, I'm not hopeful of seeing this on their website any time soon, but I'm willing to send it in as a feature request. The rest of the site seems full of other statistical nerdness, so this might appeal to them too.
ETA: This was already mentioned as a "Goal List" here. I'll reply to that topic and see if anything has since happened with it since 2009.
As for sewing, the list will be quite big and huge and entail most of what is in my sewing techniques binder from school. I'm not even going to start thinking about that one. But wouldn't it be fun!


