Have been on WK with this account for about 5 years now but had another account before as well. And still only at level 17 due to several resets 
but I started full time work about a year ago so Iāve lost a lot of time that I would have usually spent on Japanese. Some days I can get away with doing reviews during work time but other days Iām too busy. Back at my italki lessons and trying to stay consistent with 10 lessons a day and reviews down to 0 
Good stuff! Iām trying out Satori reader now to get more content and trying to do about an hour a day on it. Now that there is no new WK content coming in Iām down to about 200-250 reviews a day and that should slowly trend down after another week or so once most items move past guru stage.
Itās certainly true that by the mid-50s a lot of the new kanji and vocabulary really seemed of questionable usage or commonality to me. There get to be a lot of pretty formal literary or medical terms, and a few kanji that are just part of names when it comes to vocab. But given that the finish line wasnāt far ahead and I had the capacity, I decided to push through with it even though it probably wasnāt the highest return on my time for my Japanese study at that point. Itās a nice feeling to achieve reaching an ending point, even if that ending point is somewhat arbitrary.
Your 2nd paragraph is my thought exactly lol. Earlier I was planning to stop at lv45. But when I got there, I just thought to myself āits not that far off to finish WK entirely, isnt it?ā and here Iām working on it to reach lv 60. (Also last night I saw a kanji I donāt know on a Kirin beer can, unacceptable!)
I will probably forget the kanji I dont see often on native contents, but thats fine. Just learning it once will give me familiarity which is better than nothing.
Really, really, looking forward to finishing WK, no new lessons will probably feel weird for me for the first couple days, considering itās a part of my daily life at this point haha.
How the heck does anyone complete a Whole level in 7 days. I canāt even start the radicals on a new level within 30 days just trying to clear the back log
Everyone has different study style thatās suitable to them. Also different life situation, goal, or desire.
But if you want to know how to get a whole level done in 7 days. The 1st step is to not have back log of reviews. Try to do all reviews in the day. But Even I donāt do that, there are days when one feels too tired, or too busy, to do reviews. On those days, at least do all Apprentice items, using script to reorder reviews.
The SRS system works best if you do their reviews on time. So you donāt forget the item. Since if you forget it, and did review wrong, it will come back again and add to the number of reviews you have to do. Thatās why at least doing Apprentice item reviews everyday is important.
Then once you have your review schedule down and be consistent with it. You can figure out how many reviews you can handle in a day, and adjust the number of lessons you do per day.
Doing just WK without at least knowing basic grammar, so you can understand actual Japanese, is tough, itās hard to stay motivated. So I recommend learning N5 grammars. Then to engage with native Japanese contents, at least also do things like reading random youtube comments or anything. Try to read any random Japanese text you see. Doesnāt have to understand them all or much at all. But you will find yourself understanding/noticing more of the items you have learnt. That kept me motivated.
Again, no one needs to do WK at high speed. The most important part is keeping consistency. And itās not easy, this is my 3rd attempt at WK, and third time really is the charm for me lol.
So, to stay with this thread topic, my level up chart:
Iām assuming the answer to this is yes, but does level 43 and beyond just have so few new radicals that you donāt have to do the guru process on them to reach a level-up-acceptable amount of Kanji?
Basically yes. So for leveling up in WK, you need to Guru at least 90% of the levelās kanji. From level 43 onwards, you start the level with 90%+ of the kanji already unlocked and ready to learn as new lessons. So You can do them all and level up in 3 days 10hrs, the same as Lv1 and 2.
Okay cool, thought that was the case. Thank you for confirming 
Since ~Level 30 Iāve been happy to plan about 1 month per level and 10 levels per year so that I had a buffer to catch up.
I only planned to complete Level 40 by the end of this year so I am now going slowly and trying to do some extra study on leeches to learn them better so that they slow me down less.
My WK plan is to slow down but keep going 
(Also doing some SatoriReader, Udemy & iTalki.)
Maybe I should have put this on the Durtle thread!
just reached level 10, Iām hoping to remain consistent. It really is satisfying to encounter Kanji Iāve seen in the wild in Wanikani, I think thatās what makes me motivated to continue even when thereās a 300+ reviews in a day sometimes.Good pace! Keep going
Yas!! Please never give up!
I think I like this pace of 10-12 days per level.
3 days is crazy. How many times a day do you do reviews and lessons? wow 
