As the title says, i’ve been doing wanikani daily (seriously, i rarely miss a day) but i’m stuck on level 23. I’ve been on the 20s for like over an year now. I don’t really know what i’m doing wrong. I’m attaching my wanikani stats page. At this rate it’s going to take me a decade to finish everything and that’s just not good at all. I’ve been learning trough immersion in other ways (watching japanese streams, playing games in japanese, watching anime with no subtitles) and i’ve even translated some manga chapters (nobody complained this far, so i think i did a decent job) but i’m just stuck when it comes to wanikani. Need help.
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How many kanji required for level up have you unlocked? How many are you missing?
It seems incredibly strange to me that you are coincidentally and constantly failing ALL the kanji required to level up, even just a little a day they would move to guru eventually, even if not all at the same pace.
Do you have some lessons left that could be blocking you from getting the necessary kanji?
Edit: Also, do you clear all your reviews for the day?
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Go to WKstat and choose items → Wanikani
Open config and choose the config you see in this screenshot
you’ll be able to see any unlocked radicals/kanji lessons and apprentice stages from previous levels
If you can’t figure it out post the screen shot.
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According to your WaniKani profile page, you have only ever reviewed this kanji twice, even though you have been on level 23 for almost five months. Did you just unlock it, or has it been sitting in your lesson/review queue for weeks and weeks?
If you clear your reviews every day, you will do the third review within a few days of first learning the item. In fact, if you do reviews two or three times a day, at least four hours apart, you can reach the third review just one day after the initial lesson. I highly recommend this, since it should improve your accuracy on newly-learned items.
If you can make the time for it, I also recommend doing at least 5 and preferably 10–15 lessons every single day, even if this increases your review load. By doing kanji lessons, you will see the radical in context. By doing vocab lessons, you will see the kanji in context. Doing lessons faster means the items you are learning will reinforce each other, which will increase your accuracy. That means fewer mistakes and fewer reviews in the long term, at the cost of more reviews in the short term.
If you’re having trouble unlocking all the kanji: Do radical lessons as soon as they are available, and make sure you really know your radicals. Make up your own synonym or mnemonic if the WaniKani one isn’t working for you.
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Your accuracy is more than fine, so if speed is your main concern, this “once-a-day” aspect is contributing significantly to your level-up speed being slow.
When you do a lesson, its first review will show up 4 hours later and then again 8 hours later before the timing widens, so it’s in your best interest to check in on those brand-new Apprentice items in your reviews at least twice per day until they enter the Guru stage. Just by giving extra attention to those new items, your level-up time will drop dramatically.
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