Thanks for not disturbing my slumber. 
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Not at all. I wasn’t referring to you at all, that was just a coincidence- I’d started typing up that response before you even posted. I actually found your post legitimately interesting. I was specifically thinking about people who casually drop their level up times- I see “yeah I’ve been keeping a 7-8 day pace” far more often than “yeah, I’ve been keeping a 2-3 week pace”.
Also, while that last post I made may have been on the smart-aleck side of things, I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. Just human nature. People who are proud of things are more likely to post about what they’re proud about. That does result, however, in forum results being a bit distorted.
I wouldn’t consider 64 days since the last topic on the subject being “littering the forums”, Visceral. I’d reserve that for the “Wanikani has too slow of a start because I haven’t read the FAQs” topics, lol.
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That was just an example. Dozens more.
7 months and you’re (soon to be) level 6. That is slow. At this pace it will take you years to reach level 60. But this is just my opinion. I don’t know what your situation is. Maybe you’re super busy. Maybe going faster stresses you out in an unhealthy way. Maybe you’re focusing on other parts of the language right now. There is the “slow and steady” philosophy. It has its merits, I suppose, someone form that camp will have to explain what those are.
If you got the time, don’t fear doing all your lessons asap. In each batch of lessons there’s going to be a lot of low hanging fruits and some items you’re going to struggle with. If you do all your lessons asap, then you will quickly guru and master all the low hanging fruits (and they won’t bother you anymore), and you will spend your days practising only the ones you have trouble with. If it gets overwhelming you still have the option to limit the number of review you do per day.
But I guess the number one rule is to don’t force yourself into doing something that will make you quit WK all together… because then the progress will be zero for sure.
I’ve been reading all of your comments. All of them have very helpful insight and advice.
After some thought and proper planning, I decided to quit being too soft on myself, and switch to the once-a-day plus 10 words scheme, to morning reviews AND night reviews, and try to do as many reviews as I can, without burning myself out (if we’re being honest, some reviews are very predictable) and progress at a faster pace.
So far I don’t feel burnt out or nearing the burnout, my goal is a level every ~15 days. (Twice as fast as I was doing them!)
Thank you all for sharing your experiences with me and providing helpful insight. I won’t be disheartened, I’ll do my best!
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頑張って!
You can do it!
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はい！！ 頑張ります！！
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15 days/level seems like a decent, not too slow, not too fast pace. One tip is (if the 15 day cycle works out) is to squeeze it down to 14 days. That way you can time it so that level up happens during the weekend (or if you have some other regularly scheduled day off) when you can do a larger batch of lessons and perhaps an extra review session and in that way lessen the load for the upcoming week… Either way, best of luck!
It seems fine to me. I’ve been here for a bit over a week and I’m on level one… I guess it depends on what you’re comparing with? There’s no one right pace.
Only reviewing once a day. At home on desktop. Have job. Ergo trundling along! One day I’ll get to to kanji I don’t already know! 
Don’t worry about rushing or you will burn yourself out.
You’ll run into situations like this: ;-;
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Don’t go fast if it wears you out. Personally, I do about 17-20 day levels, which is a little slower than average I think? Just do as many lessons as you feel comfortable in a day, and if you reviews go poorly, wait on new lessons until you get your accuracy back up. Other than that, going slow will make you less overwhelmed in the future when stuff comes back to get burned. If you wanna keep up this pace though, you should consider getting a Lifetime subscription, cause monthly/yearly will be more expensive the longer you take.
You don’t have to do crazy math and learn everything as fast as possible.
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It’ll take me years to finish wanikani.
2 more, specifically. I burn everything in the summer of 2019, according to idigtech.
When I saw how long your last level is/was.
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I’m getting there. 8)
(cough)
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Yes, you are.
But you should be asking if it’s a bad thing.
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Chi va piano, va sano e va lontano. / Qui veut voyager loin ménage sa monture.
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I’m “scheduled” to reach level 60 in march 2018 and all burned in august. I can believe the level 60, but I doubt the all burned. I’m failing reviews of items 10+ levels back, so when I’m level 60 (assuming I don’t run into trouble and won’t get there) there’s going to be a lot of items I need to have a 2nd, 3rd and 4th (and beyond) go at.
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GUYS! I DID IT!!
I PASSED LEVEL 6 IN 12 DAYS!
I can definitely keep up this pace! I thought I couldn’t trust my memory, but here I stand corrected.
Thank you everyone for your motivation and kind words, I’ll keep doing my best! <3
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Congratulations 