I think you are taking it too seriously. Have you seen the smiley in the end? 
I also did around 1 hour per day. But sometimes you have a little bit more reviews so it can take more than one hour(especially if you skip a couple of days).
Also, if you want to go at full speed you need to use WaniKani more than once a day especially when you level up(first lesson, second one after 4h, third one after 8h).
To sum up, I was exaggerating a bit 
I was doing 400-500 reviews/lessons a day for the past few weeks because I was using a script to reorder my lessons, and got pretty behind. Now I’m caught up and doing 250-500 a day to stay 0/0, but that will probably lower a bit when vocab masters out. Also I don’t have any burned items yet so I imagine in a couple months review count might increase a little. Pacing is about 8 day level ups.
I checked my wk stats to see how many total meaning reviews I’ve done, which should cover radicals, kanji, and vocab and right now my lifetime average reviews per day is 166. My accuracy is 98.50% though, so that might be helping in keeping the review count under control. Also, my enlightened items are finally starting to come back (getting my first burns), so as these enter the loop my review stack is probably going to continue to go up.
Also, this is my current level up graph:
I think it’s admirable to aim high, but just some cautionary advice. I’ve found that (personally) mashing together a whole level at once is the best way to really get the repetition in that you need. The trouble comes when you try to take a short break between these sessions and then the short break becomes a long vacation. It takes both incredible luck and resiliency to be able to plow through tons of levels without interruption, and it only gets tougher once you try to balance your reviews here with the grammar you’ll eventually have to pick up.
I think it’s definitely worthwhile to push yourself. Just remember to ENJOY the learning and don’t view it as an obligation or a chore. You’re going to do great!
One week per level gal. According to the stats, I average eight days a level and 176 reviews a day. Of course that average includes the first few slow weeks, so I’d say it’s probably closer to 200 a day now.
I do use re-order, and I try to do 20 lessons every day (spreading the first group of kanji out over the first three days of a level). I avoid doing reviews on mobile when I can, because I’m so much faster on a real keyboard. 100 reviews takes me about 15-20 minutes at my computer, so I’m probably 45-60 minutes a day on average. I have no idea whether that’s fast or slow. I do have undo enabled so that I can type fast without worrying about typos, and so I don’t have to sit and think about whether I have the exact right answer before typing (“with all one’s might” vs. “with all one’s power”-- WHATEVER).
Good luck!
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