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When using the Koch metheod is it better to have the characters come at you at the same speed you are learning them? For example, if I am learning t 25 WPM can I set the settings to actual character speed but the weffective code speed slower so I have time to process it?

If you can make GOOD progress, it would be better to learn at 25cpm/25wpm or even 20cpm20wpm or 10cpm/10wpm

. . . however . . .

If you aren't making noticeable progress then generally ( YMMV ) . .

. . . you might well be better trying 10+ cpm
- so you hear the character as a single entity rather than as a group of dits and dahs, (which we call "counting" on this site)
. . . and a slower cpm to give you time to decode it whilst you are learning ( Farnsworth timing)

( answer to Q? :- probably, YES ; but only you can tell how well you are doing)


( Koch's method involves learning new characters one at at time whilst also practising decoding all the ones you have already learned )



You learn by repeated ( repeated repeated ) decoding of characters, until it becomes an automatic response to hearing them.


Whilst none of these mods are ideal - most people take longer than they were hoping for to pick up morse.

Koch's paper gives false hope to millions.



People with higher aptitude breeze through - other start to wonder what's going wrong.

You just need to do your daily practice without distractions.

practise practise practise - there are no short cuts

good luck

don't give up

keep making progress

cb

It is better not to insist on the ratio of symbol speed and effective speed less than 1/3. Some (like me) then have big difficulties with increasing effective speed. It took me several thousand exercises to start working with a 1: 1 ratio.
Wish you success

read the instruction, it tells you
:The default speed for new users is 20 WPM characters, 10 WPM effective. You may want to reduce the effective speed, but you don't do yourself a favor by reducing the character speed. Keep it above 15 WPM by all means!

In your case you arrived at lesson 1 you did not a single exercise the last 30 days, you enrolled the course 7 years ago, so my advice is: put the speed at 15 wpm character speed 5 wpm effective speed (15/5)