Listening Challenge The Listening Challenge has been overhauled and simplified.   You now simply choose Random Stages and/or Striking Errors, each with a choice of difficulty levels. Screen Shot 1   shows the Listening Challenge options. Options Option 1 offers Random Stages (numbers of working bells) and Numbers of Bells (including tenor cover when appropriate).   You also have the choice of either Diagnosing or applying Corrections to the striking errors, through Options 2 or 3. Difficulty Levels The difficulty levels for random stages (now 12 options) encompass Rounds, Random Sequence (Call Change), Plain Hunt or Method, with and without a covering tenor.   The difficulty levels for striking errors include a single bell either early or late in optional/random degrees, through to 2 bells with added method errors (falling off the line).

Error Detection Option 2, Diagnose, starts you off with small errors, and you can increase their size to make them easier to hear.   With Option 3, Correct/Adjust, you start off with random errors, and you aim to reduce all the errors to zero, bit by bit. Diagnosis and Correction In the Log tab, you enter your diagnosis.   Only the bell and early/late are required at level 1, but at the higher levels it gets harder, including hand/back stroke, the degree of error and the circumstance.   Combine striking errors with plain hunt or methods at random stages and you can raise the game to extremely challenging levels.   The errors can be revealed at any time at the press of a button and the ringing can be controlled from within the Challenge dialog, making it particularly useful for a tower quiz or listening practice. Scoring Points are awarded for correct entries depending on the complexity of the errors, your accuracy/improvement, the number of incorrect entries and the time taken. Screen Shot 2   shows the error Log with the Diagnosis and Adjustment controls for Option 3.

Advanced Settings

All of the above features can be fine tuned using the Advanced Settings, which add point/snap to striking errors and swapping places to the method errors, to make for a conductor's challenge when practising ringing and calling.