Hello! I think it's a fair question. I'm getting to the 250 boxes challenge today, and when I'm done with it, I might take a few minutes to look at yours and offer feedback. (Would appreciate it if you did the same for me). But basically, that's how it works, there is no average wait time because it's free and depends on other people's free time.

Have a great day!

I also have these same doubts. It's been a few days since I finished the 250 box challenge, and it's notable that there is a time difference in how quickly I receive the critique of lesson 1 and of this challenge. I'm waiting the critique of this challenge as well, and I'm in doubt if there is a possibility that my homework would get lost in the feed (I'm not hurried to receive the critique, but it's just a doubt that I have lol). I would offer my criticism to you, but I think it is interesting to have someone who has already been criticized in this challenge and is at least one lesson ahead to be able to criticize you. Anyway, I will also be waiting for an answer.

What people see on the first page are the most recent posts. Yours might have disappeared behind all the new ones. Honestly, I think paying for the official critiques is really worth it, because they really make a complete usefull feedback. You can search the submitted homeworks and filter to see homeworks that have been corrected by official critique. You can learn from them and judge if you pass. You can also see what you should improve on.

Your submission is there, eventually someone will get to it, even if it takes a few weeks. I try to critique submissions in order (lesson 1 > box challenge > lesson 2 > lesson 3 etc) to encourage people to critique other lower lessons, so like you've been doing if you critique lesson 1s you'll get more chances to get critiques. Uncomfortable also included a new system that makes your submission get higher in the queue depending on the agrees you recieve in your critiques, so doing critiques will help you even more because of that.