but for me, it really feels like 2% of results from 110% effort. I’m currently finishing up skyline HTML&CSS. Ive been at this since the summer, sometimes heavy others not so much. though the goal is everday, it is rare. ive gone stretches of weeks not touching this stuff, letting my interest wonder to Linux basics command line, shell, hacking, networks. virtual machines. and thats only on the rare occasion i dont get hung up on the trifle of getting things to work so I can learn. yes, youll say thats part of the process, but I dont take much away from these time drains-like the 8 hours it took to SSH into HTB, the 2 hours burned last night just trying to find the index number on a file that wasnt working-nothing learned. was looking in the wrong place. or the hours to get a VM working and having learned nothing. sometimes I’m having fun, but most of the time I come to tears and its so hard to maintain confidence. I’m almost done HTML CSS and honestly if asked to recall or reproduce the material up to this point an optimistic grade would be 20%. I really dont have a grasp of this stuff and I realize this is entry level, bottom of the line Noob stuff. I look at the HTML of a webpage and 90% of it I havent seen yet. IDK, im just wondering if this is typical. maybe just releasing some frustration.
more you practice, more easier they all become 
keep going, keep learning
I can relate to this, and what you’re going though is pretty darn common. I’m notorious for jumping around between subjects - web design, Linux, hardware, Python, back to Linux for a bit, start web design all over, and that’s just the computer science stuff.
I’d suggest taking what you’ve learned in HTML and CSS (for example) and build a simple project. It doesn’t have to be fancy - maybe a rudimentary documentation page to start, incorporating some features you think would be useful. Its main benefit is that it will keep you focused on a goal as you apply what you’ve learned, without trying to take on too much at once.
As you continue to work on projects, some stuff that you do all the time will stick, while other stuff you’ll just have to look up. There’s just too much information out there, and too many things changing quickly to assimilate all of it.
Best of luck! 
I guess it all goes back to what the 2% or 20% you are considering, and what you are considered “effort” going toward those “grades”.
If you are spending most of your time with learning other interests like Linux basics, then you are learning that. That isn’t bad or anything just something different.
If you spend most of your time figuring out what’s wrong with your SSH/VM before even getting doing any HTML/CSS you spent most of your time learning SSH/VM debugging than HTML/CSS. Nothing wrong with that, just learning/focusing on different stuff.
I’d say its only a problem if you want to focus on X, but spend time dealing with Y. If you really want to focus on X then focus on it, and try to cut-down on the extra fluff. You shouldn’t need to SSH anywhere or do anything with VMs to learn HTML/CSS, but if you do and are using such tools then take anything you are doing with a grain of salt as you are essentially using and thus learning about other tools while trying to learn something else.
Most stuff you will see on existing webpages are generated using frameworks/tools and aren’t manually written directly. Sure there’s stuff that some people wrote by hand, but it could of been provided automatically or provided from a library someone is just leveraging.
The beginning is harder than when you are further along.
It’s hard to evaluate the learning done from spending hours troubleshooting something that turns out to seem pointless like a missing semi-colon, or finding an index number. It means that next time you will find that solution faster and not waste as much time. Next time that happens you will save those hours, that’s a huge gain.
That experience builds exponentially.
https://jamesclear.com/continuous-improvement
Once you have done the hard work of learning fundamentals and making small gains it will get easier and your learning will accelerate.
Ive been at this since the summer
That’s not long and I’m sure you’ve learned something. Give it time and let your learning compound.
thats great! I didnt know I could call the hours getting something to work “debugging”. for some reason I only had a vision of re arranging code or sorting log files of out put . thanks again, I’m ok. this particular day was tough. I have learned alot. sometimes the bigger picture isnt made clear, this is particularly true with the hacking stuff and bouncing around command lines learning code and commands you have no idea of the “why”.
Yes indeed. I think in the near future I am going to do just that, set up a webpage and a server to start playing around with hacking and network stuff. We seem similar, just Ravenous learners, I want it All and NOW and its only like that for less than 1% of mankind, the true freaks. sometimes I want to hit my head and wake up a savant lol 
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