Did you ever do too many lessons at once?

WaniKani
#43

Yes, because later your reviews will contain not only your recent apprentice and guru items but also master, enlightened and burn reviews of items done weeks or months ago. Doing all your lessons at once will create days when a huge number items comes back for a review and then several days of drought until the next big wave hits. Your motivation might also falter down the line and seeing hundreds of reviews piling up every couple days certainly won’t help.

So in summary right now you may be fine but you might get overwhelmed by huge numbers of reviews popping up all at once down the line.

Also this.

#44

not sure why the comment was removed, but, link to heatmap script for anyone interested: [Userscript] Wanikani Heatmap

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#45

The highest number of lessons I did was 65. It was before I started to use the reorder script. Now I only do 20 lessons a day.

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#46

I haven’t been using scripts at all because I think I’ll be too tempted to get into script abuse but having to wade through a mountain of vocal lessons to get to the radicals and get the clock ticking on progressing the level is a chore and leads to too much temptation to just plough through them too fast. Having just finished level 13, with its two different kanji for feeling and shedload of vocab on variations like passion, enthusiasm, admiration etc. I’m definitely in a bit of a confused space and getting them all mixed up because I did all the vocal in one go.

#47

From level 1 to 10 I did around 50 lessons every time I leveled up.
Now I rarely do even more than 10 every day.

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#48

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The most lessons I’ve done in a day is 114. I didn’t guru enough kanji before level-up day, so there were a lot of vocab to get through before doing the radicals and kanji lessons for the new level. (I don’t do reorderscript)

It was rather exhausting, but vocab lessons are still fairly okay to do en masse. :woman_shrugging:

I keep things to around 70-80 lessons when leveling now. That’s my normal level up day.

I break the lessons up over a couple of hours getting the radical and kanji reviews going. After a brief pause, I’ll tackle the vocab in one go. They’re often stuff that I already know by now or were hinted at as example vocab during the lessons.

There are some pros to lesson binging. You get more downtime per level, like right before second batch of lessons and at the end of each level. So, I kind of like doing it like this. :slight_smile: It allows me time to concentrate less on reviews and more on other stuff each level.

#49

I once did 75 in a day. Yeah, that was a mistake. Longest level ever.

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#50

I find that some lesson sessions are much easier than others. Pure Kanji are the hardest. Radicals are usually easy (just one thing to remember). As long as the vocab uses the reading from the lessons, or uses a Kanji that’s been studied in previous levels. If it’s just jukugo vocab, I’ll usually plow through them all unless I get brain fatigue, which happens on some days.

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#51

This is only in the case that you get everything right the first time, every time, never failing a review. With a human amount of errors made, you can expect a consistent distribution of Enlightened and Burns regardless of how quickly you did the lessons months before.

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#52

This is so true. 25 brand new Kanji can be more terrifying than 100 easy vocab items.

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#53

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So uh, apparently this was a thing at one point that I don’t even remember doing. Though to be fair, this was during the summer when I had nothing better to do than clear out reviews and lessons. I have also been forgetting a lot from the middle few lessons, so this probably wasn’t a great idea in the long run.

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#55

These are your reviews, not lessons.

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#56

To show your lessons, there’s a button in the top-right.

#57

Thank you for pointing this out, I was concerned

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#58

yup, I use the setting of 20 new items per exercise and once, I did almost 80 items. and I used to review near about 100 items per day.

#59

Sounds like a script and not such a great idea…

#60

I do all of my lessons as soon as they become available. I have 102 to do today as soon as I get out of work!

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#61

I wouldn’t exactly recommend this approach…

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#62

Most I’ve done in a day was about 100 which I feel isn’t too bad. My reviews on the other hand, I’ll probably give some of you anxiety just saying it 500

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#63

Why not ? Making full use of Wanikani time planning across the week is fine to me as well.

In fact it’s one of the best thing Wanikani provides to me, a precise appointment every day. Without that, I ended up leaving apps that I used before, some months after having burned through half the kanjis (400) that was entirely unlocked right away.

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Most of the time I do all my work, be it lessons or reviews, as soon as I can, after waking up or after work. Though I will lower the lessons pace after getting to lvl 15 or 20, once enough new stuff that I don’t know well will be the main content. ^^

I really don’t want to have any pile of reviews at all, starting to slack and giving up are now my main worries that I’ll be careful to never encounter again.