Diary of a mad level 50'er

Well done.
Will you aim to burn everything?

I haven’t decided yet, but most likely I’ll just go until my current subscription ends (Jan 9th, IIRC) and not renew it. I don’t see much point in continuing to pay just to burn the last few (well ok, more like six thousand) items.

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i have the same feelings towards the burning process, but i subscribed for lifetime, so there’s no excuse for me, I’ll probably just keep going until there are no longer any items in apprentice and give up entirely
even that is going to take until mid-february at earliest though

there’s still a few useful words at level 48 i’m at right now, I learned 理不尽 and 無闇に today, both of which i consider to be somewhat useful to get accustomed with.

41 days left until the cake for me xd
i’ll make a countdown thread around new year’s

Congratulations! You pulled it off!

I hope to see you at the top of that mountain one day!

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Today I played Magic all day, so not much progress on WK.

December 20:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 106 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 411
Accuracy: 78.59% (323/411)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 266
Guru: 1621
Master: 1285
Enlightened: 2965
Burned 2610

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December 21:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 111 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 477
Accuracy: 73.38% (350/477)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 275
Guru: 1630
Master: 1253
Enlightened: 2992
Burned 2621

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December 22:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 105 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 436
Accuracy: 76.15% (332/436)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 274
Guru: 1628
Master: 1262
Enlightened: 2992
Burned 2639

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I had a pretty grueling 47 minutes of reviews this morning. On the bright side, at least I didn’t have half an hour of new kanji lessons on top of that like I had every previous Wednesday morning. I did unlock the final kanji lesson this morning, so three more days until I unlock the final vocab lesson.

December 23:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 117 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 505
Accuracy: 72.48% (366/505)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 276
Guru: 1612
Master: 1310
Enlightened: 2964
Burned 2654

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I thought review loads would quickly go down after hitting level 60 and slowing the pace of lessons a bit, but for some reason, my Apprentice count has actually been rising for the last several days. Presumably, I’m just failing badly at the reviews. Lately I’ve been failing too many reviews and they’ve piled up a bit. My Apprentice count creeped up to 311 today, though it’s since gone back down to “only” 294

December 24:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 99 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 441
Accuracy: 73.92% (326/441)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 294
Guru: 1586
Master: 1325
Enlightened: 2969
Burned 2666

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Had a pretty rough day on WK today.

December 25:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 131 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 507
Accuracy: 77.32% (392/507)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 284
Guru: 1610
Master: 1306
Enlightened: 2977
Burned 2691

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I’m not sure, but I thought even if you cancel your subscription you can still burn everything? I don’t know. But after the free 3 levels run out and you don’t continue to pay, you can continue reviewing those items with the SRS, it just won’t unlock the level 4 lessons for you. I thought that at level 60 if you stop paying, you can keep reviewing just like that (seeing as there is no level 61)? Is what I thought, anyway.

My understanding is that you can’t do reviews or lessons for any level 4+ items if you aren’t subscribed. I guess I could still try to burn anything from levels 1-3 that isn’t already burned.

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Nope, you can only review the free levels after your sub ends.

Heh, I thought you were being quite optimistic about your reviews dropping so fast after level 60 in your earlier posts ;). From my experience, they don’t really start dropping a bit until a few weeks in, and even after a few months I still had over 100 reviews a day (without even doing fast levels fast).

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Oh dang, that stinks. I’ll probably try to burn everything or at least most stuff anyway but that’s disappointing

I unlocked the final lessons on Wanikani this evening. It’s crazy to think about how there will be no more lessons again ever. The rigors of the Wanikani schedule several times a day have been a constant presence in my life for nearly a year. It’s hard to believe it’s all over now.

All that’s left is to keep doing reviews until my subscription ends. Now that I’m no longer constantly heaping new lessons onto the pile, my Apprentice count should rapidly drop, although I don’t expect it to go to 0 since I’m constantly missing old reviews as well.

December 26:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 117 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 556
Accuracy: 76.98% (428/556)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 290
Guru: 1581
Master: 1335
Enlightened: 2985
Burned 2706

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December 27:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 85 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 424
Accuracy: 72.17% (306/424)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 272
Guru: 1578
Master: 1342
Enlightened: 2981
Burned 2724

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I still occasionally catch myself thinking “oh look, it’s time for WK lessons again”.

December 28:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 84 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 425
Accuracy: 75.53% (321/425)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 252
Guru: 1573
Master: 1338
Enlightened: 2991
Burned 2743

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That apprentice number is finally starting to tick down!

I took a break after level 50 to get my apprentice count down from 350 ish, there didn’t seem to be much of a change in the first few days but after that it went down really quickly. It took almost exactly a week to get down to 75, and of course for me it’s already 300 again but I’m not planning on taking another break until I finish level 60 lol

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