To build off this… how can one achieve a 100% accuracy rate in reviews for the entire program?
5 Likes
This is something I’ve been trying to articulate for a while and haven’t been able to. Cheers for that. 
3 Likes
Yes unfortunately this does require 100% accuracy. But consistency and maintainability is my biggest concern. Speed in secondary.
If you miss a review item it will of course also mess up the numbers: adding one review to one day, and subtracting one review from another. Messing up is actually a important part of WaniKani, you want to be doing reviews at the edge of your memory.
I believe that doing 20 lessons a day, and 160 reviews gives you the best chance of stretch your memory without breaking it and causing leeches.
2 Likes
Thank you! I think it was important to show people that they have a direct ability to affect their experience of WaniKani.
If you have 1000 reviews it’s because of choices you made previously.
1 Like
I get what you are saying. I have completely over hauled the guide to focus more on the goal of consistency and ease, and cut most of the misleading explanations. I understand what you saying, I just made errors when trying to figure out how to communicate certain principles.
2 Likes
I was planning on posting one at level 11 (first level in Painful) because I’m on the verge of leveling up to 10 and I juuuust figured out what works well for me.
1 Like
By not drinking too much lmao
Saying this because I’d sometimes go through new vocabulary while drunk and screw half of it up the day after.
5 Likes
I actually almost completely cut out alcohol around level 40 for this reason, and haven’t gone back since!
7 Likes
@KurokawaMasumi @raephe
Who wants to be marked as solution? You’ve both solve all my problems with these posts. LMAO
3 Likes
I wouldn’t mind that sweet ass badge.
Up to you tho.
1 Like
He actually marked it as solution the absolute madman.
Cheers mate, I’ll drink to that!
7 Likes
Lol, just finish your reviews first!
3 Likes
I’m seeing alot of edits from the original post…I’d advise to actually put your theory to practice and then revisit this thread in a year to share your findings. These type of posts are typically when people actually finish the program and share what worked for them. I’m not saying your approach is wrong and I agree with your overall message on pacing…though your initial advice entirely hinged on 100% accuracy (?!). Nonetheless, best of luck you on your journey.
I can say for myself, the reality of this program was in the mid 20s when the enlightened items started coming back on N2/1 vocab that were not as solid months later as I thought they were (along with special readings, verbs that didn’t stick and a vocab that’s not useful other than kanji practice). And this was when the SRS started to go in full swing and I got alot of new kanji I never saw before.
5 Likes
Totally agree! I’ll try to remember to update it with my gathered data as theory and actual practice collide. Maybe at least a level 30 and 60 update?
Part of the reason I wanted to get this guide written sooner than later is because it requires you to be planning five months ahead. I was half writing it to clarify my thoughts and make sure that my plan was actually workable in reality. After hours of equations, excel sheets and projections. I figured that there was someone else that might benefit from my research, lol.
I’m at the perfect level to test my hypothesis though because I will level up to 3 on Saturday. (The first real level)
Thank you for your perspective and I’ll be sure to take notes and update this in the future.
3 Likes
Ahhhh, I missed my chance! But I’ve already got the badge, and wasn’t the first one to bring it up anyway, so I respect your decision 
1 Like
You will never get those 160 reviews like you claim, sorry for saying that but it’s true. It will be more than that. @girakacheezer with 99% accuracy has more reviews than that, imagine someone with 95 or 90% (and those accuracies are pretty good still).
The best way for consistency is to build up your number of daily lessons with time. You start with a smaller number of lessons, you get into your own schedule, you do the first 2 reviews in time every day, and boom it will go smoothly.
Wishing you the best nevertheless and I hope this time works better for you
5 Likes
Someone should tell the WK team 
2 Likes
It’s a work in progress.
There’s another problem I’ve been noticing. If you only do 20 lessons a day, even on Kanji days, you’ll be splitting the kanji into two days. You end up with 9 day levels, and unfortunately there isn’t enough vocab on most levels and you’ll be left with days with no lessons, which needlessly slows down the process, and undermines the promise of easy AND fast.
I’m playing around with a solution where instead you always do all Kanji in one day.
2 Likes
omigosh… STAHP, lmao. I know I know, corny.
But they can obviously see that people taking on too many lessons at a time can lead to review back up. They should already know “the secret” that slower consistency and doing you’re reviews at the appropriate times would be most beneficial, vs speeding through the course.
2 Likes
Only on the first batch. The second batch (after you guru the radicals) should be doable in one day, thus not slowing you down at all.
2 Likes