Keep a notebook beside you for your next EarthGuessr round. Before guessing, write down the strongest clue you can see. After the reveal, record the actual location and whether that clue helped. A correct guess with a weak explanation is worth examining too.
This plan gives each week a different focus. You can spend a few minutes on the round and longer on the review when a location interests you. There is no target score or promised improvement to hit.
Week 1: Find out what you confuse
Play as you normally would, but keep a log. Note your guess, the answer, and the distance between them. Add a sentence about your reasoning: “I chose Brazil because of the dense forest” is enough to start with.
At the end of the week, look for repeated mistakes. Perhaps you place every dry landscape in Australia, or recognise a country but miss by hundreds of kilometres. Those are different problems. Choose one to work on next week.
Week 2: Compare two plausible locations
Pick a pair of regions from your log and compare them at a similar map scale. Start with the detail that confused you. If both images show forest, look beyond the trees to the rivers, clearings, and nearby terrain.
Write down a difference you can point to in the images. “This river crosses a broad plain; that one sits in a narrow valley” is more useful than “this feels European.” Keep the image scale in mind: a close crop may hide the feature you are looking for.
Week 3: Explain before you guess
For each round, name a candidate location and an alternative. Then look for a detail that would help you choose between them. If you cannot find one, record that uncertainty instead of adding an explanation after the answer appears.
After the reveal, separate a missed clue from a clue that was never visible. You can practise noticing a coastline at the edge of an image. You cannot infer a coastline that falls outside the frame.
Week 4: Revisit your mistakes
Return to the regions you confused in week one. Cover the labels on a map or ask someone else to select an image nearby. Try explaining the location again before checking the answer.
A familiar image can test whether you remember that image. A different view of the same region gives you another way to check whether the clue still helps. Keep both results in your notes.
What to keep after day 30
Read through the log and choose a few entries where your reasoning changed. You might have stopped treating green vegetation as proof of a tropical climate, or started checking the direction of a mountain range before placing a guess.
Scores will vary with the locations you draw. Use them alongside your notes, and keep the habit that proved useful to you. That might be a daily round, an occasional map comparison, or a longer review of a place you want to understand.