Diary of a mad level 50'er

WaniKani
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I had pretty bad accuracy today, especially in a marathon 36 minute session late tonight in which I only had 56% accuracy rate. There’s a bit of a vicious cycle where missing items means the review session takes longer, and after a certain point you just sort of give up and try to plow through. Plus it’s harder to remember things when you’re tired.

And yet after all that and despite my abysmal accuracy, my Apprentice and Guru counts are still lower than yesterday.

December 29:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 94 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 395
Accuracy: 66.08% (261/395)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 246
Guru: 1549
Master: 1363
Enlightened: 2977
Burned 2762

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December 30:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 89 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 428
Accuracy: 74.77% (320/428)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 226
Guru: 1538
Master: 1371
Enlightened: 2981
Burned 2781

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Happy new year everyone!

December 31:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 80 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 346
Accuracy: 70.23% (243/346)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 216
Guru: 1539
Master: 1370
Enlightened: 2979
Burned 2793

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My Apprentice count dropped below 200 for the first time in months today. The backlog is really starting to clear up, even if I do have a steady stream of ancient leeches coming in.

January 1:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 80 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 386
Accuracy: 76.94% (297/386)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 178
Guru: 1555
Master: 1375
Enlightened: 2981
Burned 2808

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Now that I’ve completed the seventh week of this log, here is the updated summary. As you can see, the review times have dropped a lot since I finished all the lessons, but it’s still taking me an hour and a half per day to get through them.

week 1: 126  78  91  86 133  96  85 total: 695 (avg 99)
week 2: 165  84  85  75 133  94  87 total: 723 (avg 103)
week 3: 142  98 100 110 155 112  93 total: 810 (avg 116)
week 4: 183 109 113 106 167 109 100 total: 887 (avg 127)
week 5: 160 109 108  89 168 102 106 total: 842 (avg 120)
week 6: 135 106 111 105 117  99 131 total: 804 (avg 115)
week 7: 117  85  84  94  89  80  80 total: 629 (avg 90)
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January 2:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 89 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 380
Accuracy: 73.68% (280/380)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 179
Guru: 1504
Master: 1418
Enlightened: 2968
Burned 2828

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January 3:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 70 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 314
Accuracy: 71.66% (225/314)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 179
Guru: 1492
Master: 1405
Enlightened: 2980
Burned 2841

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Looks like my Enlightened count crossed 3000 for the first time. It’s been close for several weeks now, but I wasn’t sure if it would ever actually get there, since items are constantly leaving Enlightened at nearly the same rate (reviews from four months ago coming back up and going to Burn and/or Guru). I’m actually surprised that it reached 3000.

January 4:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 85 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 361
Accuracy: 73.41% (265/361)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 177
Guru: 1468
Master: 1387
Enlightened: 3017
Burned 2848

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How much longer are you planning to go? I recall one of your posts mentioned letting your subscription lapse and that the date was sometime soon?

You did an awesome job getting here!

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My subscription ends on the 17th.

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And it’s your cake day today? Congrats and good job coming this far! An admirable example to be sure.

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I started WK on the evening of January 1st. I’m not sure why it’s showing today as my cake day. Perhaps that’s when I first visited the forums.

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January 5:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 65 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 311
Accuracy: 78.14% (243/311)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 160
Guru: 1465
Master: 1410
Enlightened: 2994
Burned 2868

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That’s exactly it.

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January 6:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 82 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 335
Accuracy: 74.93% (251/335)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 159
Guru: 1420
Master: 1445
Enlightened: 2994
Burned 2879

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Today, I apparently spent under an hour on WK for the first time in months. It still feels like quite a chore though. I guess it’s easy to forget just how much worse things were before, when I was spending over two hours on WK every day.

January 7:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 59 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 267
Accuracy: 75.28% (201/267)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 142
Guru: 1419
Master: 1448
Enlightened: 2999
Burned 2889

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This morning, I enlightened a bunch of kanji with surprisingly high accuracy (in the 80s).

January 8:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 86 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 348
Accuracy: 73.85% (257/348)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 146
Guru: 1388
Master: 1427
Enlightened: 3029
Burned 2907

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January 9:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 78 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 324
Accuracy: 77.78% (252/324)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 137
Guru: 1344
Master: 1463
Enlightened: 3030
Burned 2923

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Had a surprisingly easy time with my reviews today. I got a lot more of the ancient reviews coming up for burn and enlightenment right than usual.

January 10:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 56 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 249
Accuracy: 80.32% (200/249)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 120
Guru: 1350
Master: 1447
Enlightened: 3046
Burned 2934

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Today was comparatively rough, in both time and accuracy and my Apprentice count going up again.

January 11:
Level: 60
Total time spent on Wanikani today: 73 minutes
Reviews in the last day: 286
Accuracy: 72.38% (207/286)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 133
Guru: 1314
Master: 1428
Enlightened: 3078
Burned 2944

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