Actual plot twist: The more the graph goes up, the longer the levels take you 
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So far mine is looking similar to yours, but of course im only level 15 so there is time for that to change lol. Anyway I was curious though, why does it seem for a lot of level 60’s that after level 45 the time cuts in half? Is there a lot less content or are you generally just so good at WaniKani at that point its easy lol. I would really think those levels would be the hardest with Kanji and vocab that’s a lot more obscure.
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These are the so called fast levels. As you know, in order to level up, you need to guru 90% of the kanji of a level. In most levels, you’ll first have to guru the radicals of a level, because you won’t have enough kanji unlocked to level up immediately. However, in these fast levels, you do have enough kanji unlocked to level up immediately after guruing them, which means you can go twice the speed in them. Not everyone does that, though, as the workload becomes really huge (if you don’t neglect your vocab lol).
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Here’s mine. I feel like since they introduced the lesson picker it’s easier for me to get words I already know or find easy out of the way first and thereby go through the total amount of lessons in a level faster. Before, when it just gave you a pre-decided batch of 5, if there was maybe 2 hard words in that batch I’d put off learning the whole batch until later. I’ve also been doing lessons in smaller batches at a time but more in a sitting (like learning 3 related words at once that all use the same kanji, then using the lesson picker to pick 2 that are related to each other via a diffeeent kanji, etc).
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Lmao the difference between 2 and 3 is so big 
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Oh, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you!
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ゆっくりとってるな～
Taking it slow, but I’m working on it! Currently living in Japan, so my motivation has increased 10x.
Current plan is to aim for leveling up about twice a month from here on out? We’ll see if I can keep it up!
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You’re just fine! The important part is keeping it up!!! :>)
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May the Great Cat of Purrseverance help you with that, so that you would no longer have to be so @upset with your purrogress! 
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I finished level 60!
My first run was close to full speed (level 60 in 364 days), in 2020. As you can see on level 60, I got pretty burn out from WK at the end.
2 years later, I wondered how much I remembered from this run, and decided to reset to level 1 with a strict 16 lesson/day, whatever happens.
The first 5-6 level were a huge boredom, but it became interesting soon enough.
Surprisingly, I remembered most of the stuff, even on the fast level. It is the last 6 that became quite hard, I can correlate with my burn out on the first run.
It took me 420 days.
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Had multiple resets along the way. The most recent one being last November/December when I reset back to level 20. My motivation comes and goes, but I’ve been quite into it this time around. I think I might even reach 60 this time.
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Dear god…
Right now I’m just trying not to exceed level 15’s total disaster on level 50. We ain’t doing that well so far, but I did just clear out my backlog of over 2000 reviews.
Backstory:
I started WaniKani while applying for JET in 2017-18. I hit level 15 right around the time I moved to Japan and fell off while trying to learn to survive here. Struggled along and then got seriously back into it while studying for the JLPT, (I have N3 and N2) and during COVID lockdowns.
Did five years on JET, got married, moved, new job, a lot of stuff happened around level 50 and I just stopped entirely for about six months. Now we’re here.
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#nice 
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Here’s my chart so far. Pretty happy with the steady progress. Around level 20, I found that lessons were getting harder, particularly the kanji. I keep it to 5 kanji per dag, and and add between 0-10 other lessons with vocab.
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Wow that’s impressive. What made you suddenly find motivation in lvl 21?
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He realized that he can do WK at 4 am 
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It was matter of approach rather than motivation.
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It was a tough decision, but I started cheating new/current-level “apprentice” radicals and kanji.
At the end of the day who am I cheating if I learn those problematic items a few days/weeks later?
(I have my own system to deal with those problematic items and don’t on cheat them past Guru) -
I think that around that time Wanikani decrased 48hour review delay to 46 hours and 24hour ones to 23 hours. Weekly reviews became a routine (I don’t need to worry if I wake up at 7 or 9 AM, this delay gives me room).
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