Anki version 2.1.64 from 2023-05 offers you to adjust the shortcuts to rate in the Preferences. So for 2.1.64 or later this add-on is only useful if you want to have multiple shortcuts to rate or if you want to adjust the action that shortcuts trigger when you see the front side.

This add-on does not work in Anki 2.1.63 because of this change. For background see here. If you are on 2.1.63 update to 2.1.64 or newer.

Alternatives, useful other add-ons

If you just want to remap the answer keys you could also have a look at Customize Keyboard Shortcuts. This add-on is also useful to remap other review related shortcuts like undo, bury, suspend, flag etc. There’s also the more recent add-on Flexible Grading that in 2023-05 should offer the same and more functionality (though I haven’t used it myself).

This add-on allows you to set additional shortcut keys to rate your cards. Usually this is used for rating with the right hand (e.g. with hjkl) and

[option a] … you can configure whether pressing an answer key while you see only the question answers the card directly without showing you the answer (as the similar add-ons (Right Hand Reviews (jkl;) and Right Hand Answer Shortcuts do it). Or the answer keys can just unveil the answer (just as the 2.0 add-on Right-hand reviews with jkl; did it). The latter is the default. [option b] … you can configure the answer keys (defaults are “h” for 1, etc) from the add-on window. [option c] … you can configure if the meaning of the “2” and “3” key should be adjusted depending on the number of buttons you see. This will be less important once the V2 scheduler is no longer experimental but the default. Then you’ll also have 4 buttons for new and learning cards, see this document and this source code on github. This is disabled by default.

Configuration

You can configure this add-on in the usual way for 2.1: Go to “Tools->Add-ons” (from the menu bar of the main window). In the window that opens select the name of this add-on in the list on the left, then click the button “Config” on the right side.

If you want to rate with the arrow keys use “Qt.Key_Right”, “Qt.Key_Left”, “Qt.Key_Down”, “Qt.Key_Up”. If you add a line to this part of the source code of this add-on you should be able to use any key that the underyling toolkit qt knows. A list of all qt.keys can be found e.g. here.

bugs, feedback

If you find any bugs or have some feedback it’s best to leave a message in the official support forum or on github. You can quickly confirm if it’s working by checking how Anki registered the answer with add-ons like Answer Confirmation for 2.1 or Extended Card Stats During Review.

Use it at your own risk. This add-on started as a modification of Austin Hasten’s Right Hand Reviews (jkl;).

versions

2023-05-24 disable in 2.1.63 and suggest user to update to .64

2021-12-06 fix for Anki 2.1.50/qt6

2019-12-22

2019-08-20 initial release

conflicting add-on

My add-ons does not work with the add-on GODMODE: faster shortcuts and cloze switching (version from 2020-06-10). For details see here.

about about other right-hand/ hjkl add-ons

There are many other add-ons for right hand answering. At the moment (2019-08-20) the ones I find all have some problem in my view:

(addon 1) Handy Answer Keys Shortcuts (2.0 only, last updated in 2013-07-06, 58 upvotes): I dislike how [option c] is setup; rate from question; for details see below.

(addon 2) Handy Answer Keys Shortcuts Amended (2.0 only, last updated in 2016-12-09, 1 upvote): I dislike how [option c] is setup; rate from question

[addon 3] Handy Answer Keys Shortcuts Plus (2.0 only, last updated in 2019-06-16, 0 upvotes): I dislike how [option c] is setup; on question unveils answer

[addon 4] Right-hand reviews with jkl; (2.0 only, last updated in 2013-11-12, 22 upvotes): on question unveils answer, no [option c]

[addon 5] Right Hand Reviews (jkl;) (2.1 only, last updated in 2019-03-18, 8 upvotes): no [option a],[option b],[option c]

[addon 6] Right Hand Answer Shortcuts (2.1 only, last updated in 2020-03-15, 3 upvotes): no [option a],[option b], only since 2020-03-15 [option c] implemented

[addon 7] Answer Shortcut Keys (2.1 only, last updated in 2018-01-27, 7 upvotes): only remaps keys by overwriting/monkeypatching Reviewer._shortcutKeys: no [option a],[option b],[option c]

[addon 8] GODMODE: faster shortcuts and cloze switching (2.1, last updated in 2020-06-10) remaps keys by overwriting/monkeypatching Reviewer._shortcutKeys - it seems to include a copy of the code of the add-on “Customize Keyboard Shortcuts”: no [option a],[option c]

when you press an answer button with [addon 5] and [addon 6] the cards is directly rated. So you can’t use “k” to unveil and then rate. So no add-on for 2.1 offers to show the answer.

none of these add-ons support the 2.1 config dialog so that you can quickly change the keys.

[addon 1], [addon 2], [addon 3] adjust the meaning of the buttons. [addon 1] and [addon 3] have inconsistent behavior in my view. Among this pressing “l” on a three button card (like a learn card with the default scheduler) when only the question is shown rates it as “good”, whereas when you see then answer it’s rated as “easy” (for details see below).

about the “Handy Answer Keys” add-ons for 2.0

The highly popular [addon 1] Handy Answer Keys Shortcuts (in 2019-08-20 58 upvotes and last updated in 2013-07-06) has this source code:

elif key == “k”:
if isq:
self._answerCard(self._defaultEase()) # is either 3 (for four buttons, review) or 2 else:
self._answerCard(2)

So the meaning of the button “k” changes: If you just see the question a review card gets rated as “good”, if you see the answer it gets rated as “hard”.

You also have this:

elif key == “l”:
if isq:
self._answerCard(self._defaultEase())
else:

self._answerCard(3 if cnt >= 3 else cnt)

“self._defaultEase()” evaluates to three for four buttons, else two. So pressing “l” on a learn card when only the question is shown rates it as “good”, whereas when you see then answer it’s rated as “easy”.

[addon 2] Handy Answer Keys Shortcuts Amended (in 2019-08-20 1 upvote and last updated in 2016-12-09) removes this ambiguity. But it still has this code:

elif key == “l”:
self._answerCard(3 if cnt >= 3 else cnt)

This means that the third key “l” means easy for learning cards but “good” for cards in review. So the meaning changes.

[addon 3] Handy Answer Keys Shortcuts Plus (in 2019-08-20 0 upvotes and last updated in 2019-06-16) has the same key meanings as the original add-on from 2013.

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Reviews (28)

👍 2025-12-26

The only drawback: It should be called “custom reviewing keys” and not just right hand reviews. Thank you!

👍 2025-10-19

It allows right hand reviews AND shows the answer when you press the right hand buttons. Great!

👍 2025-06-19

great, configured it to use the the arrow keys made it easier to review cards.

👍 2025-06-06

tyyy. Thanks! Working on Anki 25.02 (linux-flatpak)

👍 2023-09-09

Appreciate your work in making this addon. And thanks for the info at the top of the page. Had no clue anki finally added this feature.

edit: even with anki’s update, this addon STILL has use! Unbelievably useful being able to press [space] then [m] to quickly get through cards.

👍 2023-07-17

Omg thank you so much!! All the other codes I tried didn’t work but this one did. I’m using the 8BitDo controller but for some reason the A button doesn’t work but I just set the easy mode to that one since I rarely use that button.

👍 2023-05-25

Thank you! It’s so useful, i just can use only one hand to do my work!

👍 2023-03-04

One of the greatest Add ons! Simple but great and effective! Now I can finally use the arrow keys. Love it! Thank you very much.

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👍 2022-03-15

It feels like heaven, Greatttt

👍 2021-09-23

Home row sweet home

👍 2021-08-08

Perfect

👍 2021-04-23

Awesome! Exactly what I need!

👍 2021-04-05

Great!! Even better if I can display the icon of the shortcut key above the answer button!

👍 2021-01-26

Works great!

👍 2020-06-25

It worked great!!

It’ll be awesome if it can have shortcuts to flag the card for the right hand using the same option answer key like Command+H(1), Command+J(2), etc. Comment from author If you only review with the right hand you could adjust the “reviewer set flag” shortcuts with the add-on “Customize Keyboard Shortcuts”, https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/24411424

But it’s also useful to have an additional shortcut. I added this to the todo list, see https://github.com/ijgnd/anki__jkl_answe

👍 2020-06-24

love this one !! thanks!!

👍 2020-06-12

Thank you very much for this addon. Could you make it so we could pass two values to each reviewer_* variable in the config? i.e.:

{

“reviewer_1”:“g,h”

}

I’d like each hand to have their own set of custom shortcuts (ASDF and HJKL). I looked at init.py but it turns out I don’t know enough python to make the change myself.

👍 2020-04-18

Gooooooood

👍 2020-04-10

A huge relief to be able to switch hands during long review sessions

👍 2020-02-01

Essential. Addon description could be more user-friendly.

👍 2020-01-04

This is great overall. I was just wondering what happens when a card is forgotten and thus only has two options, It seems like pressing the j,k, and l key all trigger the “Good” response and pressing the “h” key trigger the Again response. Is this what is really going on? I just want to make sure the keys are being mapped correctly and the interval is increasing properly. Comment from author > It seems like pressing the j,k, and l key all trigger the “Good” response

yes. But don’t just take

👍 2019-12-31

Works! Thanks, it helps a lot.

👍 2019-12-22

Can you map the review keys to arrow keys? Tried “Qt.Key_Right” but it didn’t work.

EDIT: It works!! Thanks a ton. (I can can now study comfortably when my cat insists on sitting on my lap haha. And will give my space bar a break.) Comment from author before post was edited This was not possible. I just released an update so that now you can also use “Qt.Key_Right” etc. Check the updated description on this page in the section ”# Configuration”. Could you test the update and let me know i

👍 2019-12-15

it works and is exactly what i wanted. gracias

👍 2019-12-08

Many thanks. This seems indeed the best specimen of the various handy answer addons.

I’m using JKL; as answers. For some reason, ; (semicolon) does not register – but : (colon i.e. Shift+;) does. I’m on macOS Mojave and Anki 2.1.15.

Would be great if you could add an option for undo.

Also, perhaps of interest for those working with many languages: if you duplicate the addon folder and call it something else, you can easily assign further shortcuts. For instance, I use Ancient Greek κ an

👍 2019-11-13

Amazing, the only option that takes into account the state of the card. Let’s you use the same hotkey to see the answer of the card and select your answer once you try it you just cannot go back.

👍 2019-08-31

pretty good

👍 2019-08-22

I’ve been searching for one like this for so long. Definitive best