🌌 Artemis III: Back to the moon! - level 60 in autumn 2027

It was a feature on Wanikani so you could hover on a kanji and see when next it would be reviewed, very practical if you like to do the SRS perfectly on time

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I’m in. It’s time to finally hit 60.

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YEAH LETS DO IT

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Also, leveling up today made me contemplate how much better for me going very fast is, and what a good choice I made with following @kittyaphrodite 's advices / mentra. I feel very grateful to be here thanks to this.

Without the dopamine of leveling up every week, there is no way I would be at level 18. I would surely have burned out because of the lack of progress (relatively to me) made me less and less motivated.
And I noticed that I retain around 95% of the kanjis that are guru’d, depending on the level (17 was TOUGH).

Going faster has not made retaining worse, interestingly. It does mean I can read / do less since I spend 1hour or 2 on wanikani everyday, but that’s acceptable for me (until I have enough kanjis and vocab to slow down)

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aw thanks @sanshoo !! I appreciate the surprise shout out :star: lets gooooo

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å…ˆč¼©!!! I WENT UP 11 LEVELS SINCE I SAW YOUR POST 3 MONTHS AGO
which allowed me to start reading without too much pain (leveling up is not meaningful in itself)
thank youuuu :star:

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後輩!! I was just reading in my old level 60 thread, I thought it was you! I’m so sorry about missing out on your thanks in your study blog, my notifications dont always pop up from wk in my email. I’m so glad it’s working out for you!! Just wait until the 30s it’ll make manga so much better, the 40s for VN’s. Dude im so glad to see that youre doing so well. It’s so worth it, I’m happy my method works out for ya. thanks so much!! any q’s send them my way. I don’t regret ā€œspeedingā€ through wk it was just enough of a foundation and I solidify enough by reading manga and playing games

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Oh please do not worry, I have read your study log a bit, and I know you are quite busy. I just hope you are doing good! I owe a lot to some people in this forum for sure.. And saying it I think is my way to pay it back.
Imagine for me, level 18 was something I was only dreaming of 4 months ago struggling as I was (see my chart in study log).

Yes :clap: Yes :clap: . It’s not a common method (Koichi themselves told me they hate it lmao), but for my brain, my adhd, my discipline and health issues that make it hard to keep up and stay focused for a long time, it is perfect :slight_smile: .

That’s ironically something I also got out of your method, but found out by myself: everything from Wanikani to textbooks is a foundation to be used in real life use reading/speaking/listening :slight_smile:

I hope you will be able to stay around to watch over me :person_bowing: :lizard: . I hope to not fail again too much, but I feel good about things right now!

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37 → 38!
Time on level: 14 days


Also, psst, can everyone make sure to order their rank in level order? That way it’s a proper leaderboard. You can do this by using the post editor (click edit on the bottom right of the home post), highlighting your row, and using ctrl + x to copy/paste it:

Just make sure not to leave any line breaks between rows.

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btw how is the vocab lessons going? :eyes:

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:tired_face: Everyone is always doubting me and attacking me!!! :tired_face:

…I’m on L35’s vocab :pensive_face:

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That ain’t too bad! How many lessons do you try to do each day? Xkanji Yvocab?

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When I’m making an effort to level up quickly, I do 5 kanji and 7 vocab for 12 lessons total. 5 kanji a day gets them all in the queue in about a week, assuming there are 30-35 kanji per level. 7 vocab a day isn’t enough to get through all of a lesson’s vocab in 2 weeks, so usually there are a couple of days between levels where I do 10-15 vocab lessons a day to clear them out.

However, I’m often lazy and skip doing lessons on the weekend :joy: And if I get busy with life stuff, I do some or all of my reviews and no lessons. So that’s why my last level was like 40 days.

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I wasn’t aware this was a race. I thought we’d just go on our own paces and try to reach the moon before artemis.

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Good job and nice pace! Keep it up

Being on l35 vocab isnt bad at all if you are doing them all! I have a lot of leftover vocab because of very messy lessons during some time, but I just go forward since it’s for kanji I know and very niche words (frequency of +25/50k).
If I ever get here, I will do them all at level 59 or during ā€œWK vacationsā€ where I plan to not do any new lesson, just reviews and old vocab lessons

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Well, these threads sometimes encourage a little friendly competition between WK-ers! :wink:

But if you don’t want to race, of course go at your own pace to reach the moon :rocket: Keeping all the levels in order still keeps everything more clear and easy to see how close you are to your next goal :slightly_smiling_face:

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Been slacking off recently due to some busy days / trips but finally had the courage to demolish the 660 review pile. Thought I would level to 60 Wednesday at the earliest, but made it today!
Hopefully level 20 will go smoother than the last few :smiley:

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If its a race you want. Then its a race you’ll get. :rofl:

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Don’t run too fast, I have a lot to catch up :turtle:

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Made it to lv 4 2 days ago, which puts my average level up at 20 days.. whoops time just flowed and 47 days on lv 3 seems kinda excessive ahaha. But we leveled up and thats all thats important! :turtle:

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