# Anyone else catching up with KaniWani? Your strategy? **URL:** \ **Category:** API And Third-Party Apps\ **Created:** [October 8, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/anyone-else-catching-up-with-kaniwani-your-strategy/19995 "2017-10-08T18:53:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RadekC](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/radekc/32/6659_2.png) [@RadekC](https://community.wanikani.com/u/RadekC)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/anyone-else-catching-up-with-kaniwani-your-strategy/19995/1 "2017-10-08T18:53:12Z")
Just started with KW, and boy is it painful. I found it impossible to catch up if I let all the levels unlocked. So now Im going one by one. Im at level 5 now. Usually gives me 100 reviews. Im planning to go level by level, keeping a reasonable pace like this. 100 reviews takes me approximately 10 minutes to do, which is easy even on busy days. I did have to stop WaniKani entirely though, I am just doing reviews - no lessons for the past month. I feel like Im learning useless stuff if I cant remember it actively (using KW). So now Im starting to become more confident and I would like to complete KW at least until level 15 before I resume doing new lessons on WK. What about your thoughts? Btw: Of course I have the “only burnt items” option selected on KW. ---
**Author:** ![Veraxes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/veraxes/32/6827_2.png) [@Veraxes](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Veraxes)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/anyone-else-catching-up-with-kaniwani-your-strategy/19995/2 "2017-10-08T19:15:23Z")
My strategy? To suffer, I guess? Seriously, though, I started to use WK at 20 or somthng lvl and that wasnt much of a problem. My way of catching up with it was same as yours. ---
**Author:** ![sigolino](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/sigolino/32/342139_2.png) [@sigolino](https://community.wanikani.com/u/sigolino)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/anyone-else-catching-up-with-kaniwani-your-strategy/19995/3 "2017-10-08T19:36:02Z")
Yeah, I think I started KW at around level 4, and unlocked every level at the same time. That alone already gave me a ton of reviews, so I can imagine how much worse it would be for you to do that. Better late than never, I guess =) good luck catching up ---
**Author:** ![jprspereira](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/jprspereira/32/389740_2.png) [@jprspereira](https://community.wanikani.com/u/jprspereira)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/anyone-else-catching-up-with-kaniwani-your-strategy/19995/4 "2017-10-08T19:37:11Z")
I started using KW at lvl 9. Right now, I still have lvl 8 and 11 left to unlock. I’m going full speed on WK and I study other stuff every day… Unlocking lvl 8/11 right now would be a little めんどくさい. If I was to start again, I would activate the option to follow WK progress right at the beginning as it helps you with WK a lot more. Then, I would go level by level on the missing ones from KW. I asked a few weeks ago to be able to unlock parts of a level on KW. For example, instead of unlocking 100+ items, I would choose how many I could unlock at once. The answer was positive and it seems it’s going to happen, not sure when. So yeah… My approach would be: - Activate the option to follow your lvl on WK first - Then go level by level. - If the update really happens, go by x number of items/per day of your choice. - Review daily. ---
**Author:** ![Powerpuncher](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/powerpuncher/32/231125_2.png) [@Powerpuncher](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Powerpuncher)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/anyone-else-catching-up-with-kaniwani-your-strategy/19995/5 "2017-10-08T19:45:01Z")
I started using KW at the end of lvl 2 or beginning of lvl 3 I think. I still had a review queue of about 150 and I just pushed through it in one setting. But it’s probably not so easy to just push through when you have like like a 1000 reviews backed up. Best thing you can do is just keep it going and you’ll eventually catch up. ---
**Author:** ![rmizuno](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/rmizuno/32/63162_2.png) [@rmizuno](https://community.wanikani.com/u/rmizuno)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/anyone-else-catching-up-with-kaniwani-your-strategy/19995/6 "2017-10-10T16:44:28Z")
I think I started KW around level 30? I never went on the forums that much in my early levels, so I probably didn’t discover it until around then. I don’t remember what I did, but I do remember having at least 1000 reviews. Never caught up, and never used it longer than a week, lol. Maybe one day… ---
**Author:** ![raegefilth](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/raegefilth/32/675344_2.png) [@raegefilth](https://community.wanikani.com/u/raegefilth)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/anyone-else-catching-up-with-kaniwani-your-strategy/19995/7 "2017-10-10T18:00:48Z")
I’ve also began with the earliest level (burnt items only). I do reviews daily until I don’t have 100+ items waiting for me everytime I check the website, lol. Once my apprentice is down to zero or if I feel like I’m not going to get any reviews soon I unlock the next level and do it all over again. Can’t remember when exactly I started using KaniWani but I am at level 8 now. Also is it just me or does it feel like reviews are coming in way faster and more often than they do on WaniKani? I feel like I’m seeing the same items every hour or so without making any progress. ☹