# Overperforming without changing a weekly rate

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/overperforming-without-changing-a-weekly-rate/441>\
**Category:** Akrasia\
**Created:** [January 21, 2015, 3:52am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/overperforming-without-changing-a-weekly-rate/441 "2015-01-21T03:52:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![kgva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@kgva](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/kgva)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 3:52am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/overperforming-without-changing-a-weekly-rate/441/1 "2015-01-21T03:52:30Z")

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I feel like this might be a dumb question, but I searched and couldn’t find an answer. I set a reading goal of 15 pages a week. This is a really low bar, but I have health issues that could make me miss a higher rate from time to time. I want my weekly goal of 15 pages to stay the same regardless of what I read the week before. So if I go nuts and read 200 pages, I don’t want that to affect the next week. I still want a 15 page goal for next week instead of having 100+ days to read my next 15 pages. How do I do that?

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**Author:** ![chelsea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a3d4f5/32.png) [@chelsea](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/chelsea)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 4:08am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/overperforming-without-changing-a-weekly-rate/441/2 "2015-01-21T04:08:00Z")

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No dumb questions; it means that we aren’t doing a good enough job in the UI to make the answer obvious!

The answer is retroratcheting! Retroratchet basically throws away your safety buffer - if you have 100 days now, after retroratcheting you will be back to 2 days buffer. [Premium](https://www.beeminder.com/premium) users have access to a couple more customized versions of this feature (setting the desired days to a number other than 2 and autoratchet, which is having this happen automatically).

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**Author:** ![jeanneerin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/jeanneerin/32/132_2.png) [@jeanneerin](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/jeanneerin)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/overperforming-without-changing-a-weekly-rate/441/3 "2015-02-23T02:54:15Z")

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…auto-retroratchet might actually be the thing that finally convinces me to go Premium. Sometimes I convince myself not to RR because then I can let something slip for awhile. Nice feature!