Sorry Borx. I must respectfully disagree.
It is not a small amount of time.
I am not harming my learning.
And I don’t want to hang around here for years.
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You haven’t already?
plus, typing less won’t shorten your overall time using the program if you go all the way to lvl 60.
you’ll get a guru term in 1 week, whether that term is “supplementary” or “s” (or “suprise”, “superfluous”, “skin”…)
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Huzzah for you, sir.
The original post wasn’t meant for you, really - as I said, it is for newbies who want to avoid unnecessary typing. They are free to try my method or disregard as they like.
It saves time typing!!
You’re going to be here for at least a year regardless. And I don’t think self-assessing the impact on your learning really proves anything to anyone. This just plain sounds like an abuse of the synonym system that isn’t a good idea. Typing out your answers has a benefit and doesn’t take a large amount of time.
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Well, I’ll assume you used the spare… couple hours you’ve shaved over the years to read a good Japanese book or something related to kanji. Hope it goes well for you.
Hey!! ouch…
We can’t all be geniuses. Or have only one interest.
The most time consuming thing on WK reviews, in my opinion, is remembering brand new or super old terms, and not, in fact, typing the words themselves.
I understand that this whoe topic is heavily researched, but personally, i feel like it is a slippery slope and 3 steps from “I don’t remember the word, but I know it started with s, so I got it right.” Props to you if it actually works, though.
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This Konami code made me level 15 again. 
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No, it does undermine the purpose of remembering the meaning, otherwise the creators would have made a multiple-choice format instead or made it like anki. Please don’t encourage others to adopt bad learning habits.
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This is why I’ve retained so much absolutely nothing I learned in Human Japanese.
This be a little off topic but before I updated the mac OS to 11 I used to be able to use the dictation for the English meanings. That was a big help. But since I upgraded that went away. Did anyone else do this?
If you’re really looking to save time the way you describe, I would honestly recommend just cutting WaniKani out of your study and using a good Anki deck instead. The Kodansha Learner’s Course Anki decks are really good imo, if you’re looking to learn kanji as well.
Before I write ebe, I think evil begets evil. It is shorthand - nothing more, nothing less.
Careful with that kind of hassle saving talk around here. People don’t care for it.
But if you think “egg bagels ew” as you type “ebe” then it’s all the same to WK. I know you’d never do that because egg bagels are great, but still.
EDIT: But I guess ebg “egg bagels great” would also probably get accepted.
Before I write “evil begets evil”, I think “evil begets evil”. Do you not see the difference here? This isn’t typing “ofc” instead of “of course” to type lazily. This is trying to make connections in your brain between a kanji you’re learning and it’s meaning. Throwing vague letter combinations into the mix isn’t helping that.
I am surprised you didn’t give the creators a capital C.
It is nothing like multiple choice. It is not a cognitive shortcut. It is shorthand.
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