Reassessing exercise difficulty levels

[tasxatzial]

It's about time to reassess the difficulty of the exercises. Some of them are way off; for example, the change exercise is labeled as easy when, in fact, it's closer to hard compared to the rest of the exercises. This might not seem like a big problem until we realize that incorrect difficulty ratings can easily dissuade people who choose exercises based on difficulty and cause them to abandon the track.

The purpose of this adjustment isn't to determine the absolute difficulty of the exercises, as that's impossible, but to judge their relative difficulty. Here's how I would approach it:

• First, do a quick pass over all exercises and rate them as easy, medium, or hard. We don't need to be entirely accurate at this stage.
• Second, do another pass and check if any exercises in a set should move up or down a level. To do this, each exercise should be compared with the others in its set. For example, if an "easy" exercise is harder than most of the other easy exercises, it might be safer to label it as "medium".
• Lastly, take each set and compare all exercises relative to one another. For example, the easiest exercises in the easy category will be assigned a 1, and the hardest a 3.

Any other ideas on how we should be approaching this?