if you wan’t to be efficient, you should do your Radical and Kanji lessons as soon as they come up. Vocab is something you can and should split up.
so after a level up you do your Radical and Kanji lessons only for that day. you can split up your vocab over the next 2-4 days depending on how fast you want to go. but they are not critical for leveling up on WK tho.
after you start using a schedule for a little while you will notice most things yourself.
WaniKani isn’t a race. It’s about building knowledge to get you to a goal. You found the pace and efficiency you need to keep you moving forward; slow, fast, medium doesn’t matter - you are moving ahead.
Could you boss rush this and be done in just over a year? Sure. But if you don’t have the time, aren’t comfortable with all the reviews that would pop in, and so on, go at the speed that works best for you. Even if it was 4 weeks a level instead of 2, as long as you are moving ahead you will get there.
In terms of making a schedule, I don’t know what your day looks like but what I find is that I have set a goal for myself to do WK no less than 3 times a day. First thing in the morning, noon, then again in the evening.
That said, I work from home and have a lot of leeway. I find I do my reviews first thing in the morning, then probably again mid-morning, then noon, mid afternoon, then evening, and as time permits, once or twice before going to bed. But I hit it at least 3 times a day without fail. And this is a schedule I need to have, as otherwise I would likely just not come to do any of the work because I am lazy… 
Hope that helps!
Ha yes. I totally agree with this. However it’s actually not to race through i want to be more efficient. however to learn it better and as intended. It feels like the way i’m doing it i ain’t using the SRS as optimal as i could.
I have a lot free time and leeway at the moment aswell. however i would like to think corona and lockdown eases up before i’m done with WK, which means i have to back to a regular work, and woud be better equipped with having a good scheduele.
I am actually working out a way to try to have all my vocab done between level ups and I may finally have crammed enough in to actually put it to better use.
I don’t do ALL of my kanji lessons on level up. I do all the Radicals right away. I then add on 5-10 of the newly opened Kanji. I level those up to Apprentice 3 or 4, then start in on the open vocab, doing 20-30 a day.
I do the remaining kanji the day before I complete my Radical SRS to Guru 1.
The reason I do my lessons and reviews this way is my brain absolutely freaks out when I level up in 7 days and get a big blow of 130 new lessons. When I see that, I put them off longer than I should, and because of that, if I attempt another 7-8 day level up, I can’t work through all the previous level’s vocab, which then hurts my brain in a different way.
Seems to be working but will see if I can maintain the 120-160 Apprentice items in my stable…
I do 5 Kanji or 15 Vocab a day, and my median level up time is 15 days. I don’t think you have to do all Kanji at once to be efficient, in fact I would feel it could be counter-productive, depending on the individual.
(I do do all radicals at once though, but that’s just because they’re super easy, especially from Level 14 onwards)
if you do all radical and kanji lessons when you level up, you only have to do 35ish new items. do the same with vocab (30-35 items) a day (after your radical and kanji lessons) and you have a consistant flow of new items and reviews.
if 35 new items are too much, you can and should tweak it to your liking but based on your previous post it should be pretty easy for you to keep a seven or at least 8 day schedule with no additional afford.
First of all, the concept of doing WK 3 times a day comes as an attempt to simplify people’s lives. A lot of people find themselves doing reviews every hour and I think that can really kill one’s productivity for their other real life stuff. Having the pressure to stop whatever we’re doing to do reviews every hour is not healthy in my opinion. However, that doesn’t mean that you can’t do reviews 6 times a day or something. Of course you can! I actually like to incentivise people to do reviews whenever they find themselves “killing” time. It’s better to turn that time we’d spend looking at the wall doing reviews after all. It means more free time later!
The concept of the 3 sessions was the answer I found to “How can I maximize learning in a time-efficient manner?”.
Now, all you need to know is that doing the 4h and 8h intervals of your newly learned items is important to start with your right foot. Maybe you have time to do lessons during breakfast, 4h reviews during lunch and 8h reviews during dinner. And when I say this, I mean that the purpose of doing reviews in those times is to do those specific items, but that doesn’t mean u shouldn’t do other items that eventually got avaliable. You should! You come to do the 4h/8h reviews but you take the opportunity to do whatever other reviews are available as well.
The reason why you can afford to not bother with other items is because their intervals are much bigger than a few hours. In other words, neglecting those reviews for a few hours when you waited 1 full month for them is totally fine! 
You also mentioned that before you’d your lessons in a more random way, but by you doing reviews always at specific times of the day, those older items will start to adapt to that same time as well.
Hopefully I made things clearer
again sorry to be daft, but which script makes me able to chose what i review and my lessons?
i’ve got lesson filter. but i haven’t really made it work?
if you want to go as fast (or close) as possible you have to time your lessons and critical reviews based on the SRS WaniKani uses.
Technically speaking you could wait with your first batch of Kanji until you unlock the second batch but that makes it harder, Kanji are the most difficult to learn after all.
but that’s not for everyone, you can create a 10 day or 15 day schedule as well or just do your reviews whenever you feel like it
Okay i like the idea of having having three times a day as scheduele and then doing items in the middle if theres is spare time to kill.
I’ve got 40 lesson left at lvl.
Say i do my first WK visit at 11 , that would make my second visit 17 and last visit at 1 pm.
whic of those remaining lessons should with? and how to i chose which kind to do?
again sorry for being so daft, and thanks to everyone for being so nice and helpful 
I think you’ve got some good insight about how to improve your efficiency from other users so I will focus my post on another point.
It’s not a race and everyone is different. The important thing is to find something that works for you. You don’t have to do a set number of repetitions per day, you don’t have to finish a level in a certain number of days either.
It’s completely okay to have sporadic reviews and to take as much (or as little) as you’re comfortable doing. It’s completely okay to slack off some days. Not everyone’s life schedule can be planned in advance, some days are more busy than others, etc.
I can’t stress enough how you need to find something that works for you, and what works for you might not work for someone’s else and this requires testing on your part. It is a good thing to take advices from people but always relativize it to yourself and always take it with a grain of salt.
You’d actually do your lessons at 11am, your 4h reviews at 3pm/15h and your 8h reviews at 11pm/23h. It’s a 12h-cycle The 8h are on top of the 4h because that’s how Spaced Repetition works: it gradually increases the intervals between reviews.
Tbh, I think you should just do whatever WK gives you for the time being. Just by following the 3 times a day schedule you’ll naturally increase your speed. If by then you’re comfortable with even going faster, then doing radicals and kanji first after leveling up is important. You can select the radicals and the kanji with the Lesson Filter script you mentioned. Is there any question you have about how to use the script?
lesson filter [Userscript] WaniKani Lesson Filter
reorder ultimate: [Userscript]: Reorder Ultimate 2 [newest]
in jprspereira guide, you’ll find many useful userscripts, he explains why you should use them and explains what they do.
edit: oops sorry. you just have to type in the numbers. how many radical, kanji or vocabs lessons you want to do. probably explained in the link i posted.
Okay GREAT!
I’m gonna continue this level just as it is but follow the 11/15/23 scheduele
When i level up i will start with the radicals and kanji. To understand this. do you do you vocab when you have guru’d all the kanji and radicals for a lesson?
Ye i haven’t quite made lesson filter work. When i started this level i tried making it only show me the radicals but it didn’t work? The scipt is downloaded and i can see it in tampermonkey. But it ain’t showing when i start my reviews.
you type in the numbers for how many radicals, kanji and vocab you want to do and then hit the filter button.
In the image i put in 5 radicals, 10 kanji and 15 vocab. (just as an example).
if the script isn’t showing up, try to reload your browser or restart tempermonkey.
I wonder what is the app you are using to be able to do that! I think it’s a great combination and would love to do the same.
thanks alot ashikaga, i made it work.
so if i was to only do the radicals what would i type in?
just type 100 in the second box (from the left) and zero into the two boxes next to it (to the right)
Thanks so much everyone for you help replies <3
I figured it was 80% of the JLPT level you’re at, so if you’re studying N5 then you should know that much kanji before starting grammar. Genki 1 is N5 level and G2 goes to N4 but it starts you off veryyyy easy and there’s furigana throughout. Check out some reviews online to see if you’d like its style first though cause it can be quite expensive 