Drop your level up chart here 📈

[driscoll]

Mines a lot slower than everyone else but after level 14 I started on BunPro and split my study time between kanji and grammar.

[saintjust]

Hey, how’s BunPro? It sounded appealing but I took a quick glance at it and it looked confusing, convoluted compared to WaniKani’s on rails experience. Do you have any tips? I’m focusing on vocabulary for the time being because that’s my weakest point, but I’d like to eventually get back into grammar.

[driscoll]

Bunpro is great for me. What I like is that it links to WaniKani so it puts the kanji you’re learning into the sentence structures. So you get the reading and listening, and by reading out load the talking too. I know I should be reading more than I am to reinforce the learned kanji but I think I’m getting enough from Bunpro.

[j-umisenshi]

I had a very slow start, but once I was in, it was hard to stop. Downloading Tsurukame was a game changer, because I started doing reviews and lessons around the clock.

[saintjust]

We’re so back!

[Adampai]

Ever since I started using this website, I’ve only been doing the default 15 lessons that WaniKani gives me and clearing my reviews fully almost every single day.

For level 19 I’ve decided to really tryhard just to see how fast I could level up (paying close attention to times for leveling up kanji and radicals, doing WK multiple times a day and as soon as it was possible to level up a kanji)

I’ve managed to level up in just 8 days while still doing the 15 default lessons. I didn’t think it was possible to do it this fast (i thought you need to use the lesson picker and select all radicals/kanji as soon as possible), so I was pretty surprised. I don’t think I can keep this pace up though cause I’ll probably burn out lol

[saintjust]

This is my pace and it feels great. I was a bit let down because I thought this was where the kanji I didn’t know began, but it’s ok. I’m still learning a lot/consolidating things I had forgotten or didn’t have a solid grasp on. I’m happy!

[pabbles]

lol I started in Q4 2016

Is everyone else using wkstats and messing with Inspect Elements, removing the max-widths on all the elements to get a long graph with no scrollbar? Because that’s the only way I found

[Squintina]

No scripts and (for the most part) no using lesson picker

[Geitsu]

Wow, you’re level 53 already?! Good work!

[Geitsu]

13-15 I was doing radicals and Kanji first to level up faster.
Consequently, 16 - 18 took longer because I decided to catch up on vocab that was piling up from previous levels.

Now I am just doing suggested lessons, which interleaves new radicals and kanji in with backlogged vocab. It goes slightly slower and slightly harder, but it’s what Koichi suggests, so I’m all about it.

[saintjust]

I fell sick after New Year’s so I lost 10 days, but it’s ok. I have now officially reached the 500 guru+ kanji milestone. I already knew most of them but it’s still something!

[feralfuton]

My first month with WK. At first I was doing lessons as they show up, now I’m using the lesson picker to knock out all the vocab before starting new kanjis and radicals and trying to keep the apprentice items below 100 before I start new lessons.

[slighlty_better_than]

Working through the review pile each time was, uhm, an experience. But hey, I am still here!

[saintjust]

gogogo

[Kay]

Yeah… I couldn’t afford WK while in college (see: 10 years on level 1 lmfao), and not knowing kanji was a hindrance to self-studying after graduation. But hey, I’m back again and more committed than ever.

[Squintina]

I had joined in 2020 apparently, and completely 100% forgot that I did until I went to sign up again in October 2024 So instead of keeping my first level at whatever many years, I just deleted and re-made the entire account. Didn’t know about the reset and I was on level 1 too.

Thank goodness too because now I get this pretty chart and I am very committed to keep it this way until I pass all my goals.

[minerun]

I want to check back here once I’m at level 60 (I hope I don’t quit halfway through)

[hiyyo_wo]

mentally dying inside

WK is the only thing I’ve been consistent with and grammar study has fallen off HARD but I do see a benefit in it if I keep going although now my skills are extremely unbalanced

[foggyboi]

I started WK almost 10 years ago, took the N5 twice, passed it once, and decided late last year that I wanted to give the N4 a shot, so I reset in mid-September (I don’t even remember where I was!). I’m proud of what I’ve done so far and there’s just been a few days that have really felt like a slog.

Like others, I’ve been dragging my feet with grammar, but I’m hoping to change that soon.