Kept the streak going for two months out of guilt more than anything, quality of my solutions tanked toward the end of most days. Switched to just doing problems when I'm actually alert, some days that's zero. Progress feels slower on paper but I actually remember the patterns now instead of pattern-matching on autopilot.
Setting a weekly minimum instead of a daily one was the compromise that worked for me, still shows up as consistency without the daily guilt trip when life gets in the way.
Curious what your baseline was before you switched. I've been doing the streak thing for like three weeks and already feel the burnout creeping in, trying to figure out if I should just quit now or push through to some point where it clicks.
This is basically where I landed too, except it took me way longer to admit the streak was doing more for my ego than my actual prep. Untimed and infrequent but retained beats timed and forgotten by the next morning.
