This add-on provides several keymapping changes to make it more comfortable to use the numeric keypad for reviews. If you only like some of the changes, you can elect to enable only the ones you like.
This add-on incorporates the following other add-ons:
Answer Key Cascade (thanks to Kenishi)
Show answer using numerical keys (thanks to Trey Bolyard)
If you have either of these already, you should delete them before installing this add-on to avoid unexpected behavior.
Changes This add-on makes five changes to default behavior:
All ease shortcuts are shifted down by one: Again becomes 0, Hard becomes 1, Good becomes 2, and Easy becomes 3. This allows you to keep your fingers on the bottom row with occasional reaches down for the fail key.
Pressing the . key undoes the previous review.
From Answer Key Cascade: pressing a value higher than the highest available ease automatically selects the highest available ease rather than doing nothing. In Anki 2.1, it’s also possible to customize the way that answer choices are mapped to ease values to allow behavior like the 2.0 add-on Answer Key Remap.
From Show answer using numerical keys: pressing any ease button on the question side (including 0) will show the answer.
Pressing the 5 key activates the replay audio function (only available in Anki 2.1).
Configuration You can selectively disable any of these changes in the add-on’s config (choose Tools > Add-ons, then select the add-on in the list and click the Config button; or edit the add-on in Anki 2.0). The add-on starts with all of them enabled; disabling all of them is equivalent to Anki’s default behavior.
Notes While these are not changes in this add-on, it should also be noted that the bury (-), mark (*), and study deck (/) commands are also easily accessible on the keypad.
This add-on fixes a bug found in the previous version of Numeric Keypad Remapping where clicking the ease buttons did not work as expected.
DEPRECATION NOTICE: Once the v1 scheduler is removed from Anki, I will be removing the “Answer Key Cascade” feature and configuration from this add-on, as it won’t be useful anymore once all reviews have 4 buttons. (Also, this relies on monkey-patching some critical code, which could break in the future.)
Support If you have problems or suggestions, please email me at <anki@sorenbjornstad.com>. I have no way of responding to issues posted in reviews, so please do not post reviews with the intention of reporting problems.
Reviews (13)
👍 2025-12-22
I never leave reviews, but after screwing around with 3 other add-ons’, custom Chat GPT scripting and json editing, mind you, all to get the 7 on the numpad to replay audio, I came across your add-on.
IT WORKS PERFECTLY. Thank you for being a legend.
👍 2022-05-30
amazing how such a small change can make such a big difference
👍 2021-12-07
I’ve recently reinstalled Anki on a new PC and now the “Undo with Period” mapping doesn’t seem to work anymore, even though it’s set to “TRUE”. Is this a problem with the latest version, or is it something on my end? Comment from author Give the latest version of the add-on a try, it should be fixed. Anki’s undo handling is in the middle of a massive change, so no surprise something stopped working!
👍 2020-11-11
It’s awesome, thank you.
I just want to use the Fail/Good/Easy buttons, I was using the Pass /Fail plugin before.
Reason was that I don’t want to look at the buttons available every time to see if it’s got 3 or 4, I just want 1 -> Fail, 2-> Pass without ever having to look.
The issue is I’m also learning a ton of new cards every day at the moment, with lots of learning steps, and some cards are just too easy to waste time on the learning steps, so I did need a 3->Easy button for those sit
👍 2020-02-14
Will speed up the review process
I’d also like to chance the “undo last review button” from ”.” to the NumPad-Enter Key. Is this possible?
👍 2020-02-01
Absolutely necessary.
👍 2019-12-24
Wonderful timesaving addon. Anyone having issues with card types with input or enhanced cloze 2.1 should change line 90 in init.py from self.mw.reviewer._showAnswer() to self.mw.reviewer._getTypedAnswer() as explained by ijgnd here(https://github.com/Arthur-Milchior/anki-enhanced-cloze/issues/15)
👍 2019-09-14
Works great!!
👍 2019-09-14
answerKeys = (‘0’, ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’) change to answerKeys = (‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’, ‘5’)，
can you help me to modify the rest of codes
👍 2019-08-17
Thanks for porting Answer Key Cascade! Exactly what I needed
👍 2019-08-16
! be aware that it also remaps the number keys on the large keyboard
very orderly and useful add-on
👍 2018-10-24
Works great.
👍 2018-10-24
Finally! Thank you very much.
