Took an unplanned week off of proper studying and am just now getting back into the swing of daily lessons. Currently aiming for 20 lessons a day to try and clear the vocab backlog that built up over the last few painful levels.
All lvl21 kanji are in my reviews now so I will be leveling up soonish? 
My accuracy is not what it was for the first 18ish levels though.
15 remaining vocab from lvl19 then most of 20 and all of 21 waiting… 
I just joined premium and started LVL 4 yesterday, day 30 for me. I don’t understand how people did lvl3 in 7 days. I’m doing reviews twice a day and it took 15 days.
I guess 97.5% accuracy is too low?
I think that’s a really good accuracy! Finishing levels faster also requires doing more lessons per day and, if you want to go really fast, reviews multiple times a day.
From all the advice I’ve read on these forums the most common way to target a certain number of days per level is how many lessons you do per day. I can’t remember what the default number is on the “Today’s Lessons” thing, but you can click the “Advanced” button and strategically choose which ones and how many to level up faster.
I struggle with being consistent and I think something happened that left me half dead on the sofa for 1 week, then I spent another week being totally idle. At least the ADHD meds are helping and I’m not giving up. I don’t have any trouble with the contents themselves.
After being so disciplined as I consistently tried to do 0/0 every day, I failed during the last level (L41).
Now one last level (L42) before going into the express levels and being overwhelmed by new lessons and reviews starting from L43.
I’ll join the life happens crew. Think I was around level 37 when I reset, was forgetting too much stuff because I was too focused on kanji and should have been using wanikani as a secondary resource.
So a little story, I first started in late 2020, with prior knowledge in Japanese being Ab Initio from highschool almost 10 years before that. So I knew hiragana/katakana and a very few number of kanji still in my memory (numbers, basic kanji 日 火 水 etc). Kept on learning on WK for about 4 months before I burnt out around lv20.
Then I came back and reset to Lv 1 on Jan 2023. This time I lasted 2.5 months before decided to have a ‘little’ break on Lv 10.
Now, this third time around, I came back to Lv 10 on Jan 2025 with nearly 2000 reviews waiting. Not wanting to reset anymore, I spent a month slowly clearing the backed up reviews, not adding any new lessions until near end of the same Jan. After that I’ve been going at almost full speed. Somehow I found a right schedule and mindset. I think this time I can go all the way to Lv 60 without burning out again.
I’ve always wanted to understand Japanese, and I felt kanji was the biggest mental hurdle for me. Now that I learnt 1250+ kanji, mentally I’ve passed the mental block I’ve always had.
I started understanding random Japanese comments on YT and Twitter, and that gave me a lot of motivation. I can ready simple text. My grammar is lacking, but I’m working on it. If I can get my grammar up to par with my kanji level, then I see nothing stopping me this time.
ps. Somehow I managed, with the help of rounding, to finish Lv 37 in less than 6 days 20hr, the fastest possible time. I find that pretty amusing lol.
Level 30. Excitement intensifies.
I could have gone faster but I’ve been purposefully slowing down because I’m doing 4 core apps!! (Which is a lot, but I manage somehow) While also reading for my book club. Something had to give and I think 9-12 days is ok in those circumstances.
That being said…
Holy carpoly, you’re not kidding about the full speed. I am absolutely in AWE of your level up chart!
Thanks! I do a lot of my reviews at office during work time lol. And to avoid mental pressure of wanting to delay my sleep a little bit to do the reviews, when I do my lessions, I plan it so that those situation wont happen to begin with.
When I came back for the 3rd time, I remember the first day I did just 10 reviews lol. Forcing myself to go slow and do more each day as I work on my review piles. Building habit for almost a month before I start learning new kanji/vocab again. Then I have a good schedule going on for consistency.
I use script/app to reorder the reviews, on the day I just didn’t feel like learning, I do only apprentice items, guru and above can be left for later. So I dont feel pressured to force myself to study, which led to previous burnt outs. But I still come back to do all reviews and getting 0/0 before leveling up. I try to space out the lessons evenly across 7 days. Usually that comes down to 20-25 lessons per day.
I’m thinking I might force myself to take 14 days per level after Lv 45, and use the time on more grammar than now. Because by then I would have studied 90% of top 1500 most common kanji. Kanji I dont know while trying to engage with native content should be the minority and wont appear often.
Aligning my level up day on the calendar produced a very satisfying and motivating heatmap too haha. Every Wednesday I get a white box border!
Sadly, the reviews I do off my main PC won’t show up on the map. I started adding the counts manually sometimes in May for completion sake.
The last levels have been a reminder of what happens when “life happens”… Still going slow and steady.
My WK 1st year anniversary was yesterday, btw - good thing I got the lifetime plan when it was on sale last year I guess?
Close to a quarter of the way through and I still only expect to miss WaniKani / Vocabulary / 上手い another 50 times or so. 
My background is, I started WaniKani in 2015, got to around the 20s, then dropped studying Japanese between 2020-2023. When I returned, I reset my account from 0 and plugged away. I honestly can’t believe I’m finally in the home stretch. I remember when there were only 50 levels, after all. The level 1 is off, I don’t know why it says 6 months. Maybe that’s just how long I left it reset before actually beginning again.
Speedy! You will have overtaken me well before we get to Dec N4 time. I’m happy chugging away at 10 items a day though, keeps it manageable for me.
@feralfuton we are 1/3 of the way through 
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Somewhere over the rainbow…
