Ah, the price of success. lol
Seriously though, until i hit the 50’s I didn’t give much thought to post-WK since it was so far off. It’s interesting to see how you get through it. 
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156? I think I had like 500 by the time I was lvl 60. Over 300 was in Guru I think.
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It is. There really was no need to rush things like that. ^^; It’s going to be interesting to see how things continue now. I mean, the review levels have dropped by now, though tomorrow comes the second batch of lv 60 lessons. Maybe I’ll spread the lessons out. I hear that’s what most people do! 
Well, that does indeed put it in perspective. And I have seen users with insane amounts of leeches. But, yeah, I managed to get them below 90 and I very much would like for things to return to that.
So, today I’ve snuck in a bit of leech training. It’s best to just attack them directly and be done with it and let the SRS work it’s magic.
But, with the leech settings I’m using, it means a leech is counted as such all the way until Enlightenment. So, it’s slow going to bring numbers down. 
It will take a month or so for the current leeches to hopefully go away.
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Reaching lv 60 didn’t change my workload much in the following days; after all I binged all lessons again. Then I unlocked my second batch of lessons and binged those to. Now there are just 2 kanji left to guru, on of them today. These are my last WK lessons. ちょっと寂しい. 
But, now I clearly see a trend on the Ultimate Timeline. Reviews are going down.
Also, it’s made it possible for me to devote time to serious leech training. As in doing the whole lot. I’m doing another set of ALL leeches today, to make sure I have the current leeches down to a t.
Leech numbers are still pretty high compared to before the fast levels: right now 157, whispered but they were up to 170 for a while there. 
I think my leech squashing also needs another component to be truly successful: return of the immersion learning regime. 
I had put most stuff on hold because of the furious pace of WK during the fast levels. Heck, even since before that, as the numbers of reviews grew in intensity. I just didn’t have the energy.
So, since reviews are now down I again feel I have energy to devote to reading. 
So, that’s what I’ve been doing these past days. I went through 4 volumes of Japanese manga at a fast pace. I’m not reading it as fast as English, but it’s getting pretty close. o_o I’m a bit shocked to say the least, that I don’t have to constantly look up kanji, but now it’s down to stuff here and there. And that makes reading so much more enjoyable! 
I’m gonna reread Kuroshitsuji to see how much more I get this time round. 
(it has furigana, so this is also a trial to see if I can mentally ignore them! )
It’s a gorgeous, absurdly funny, crime-solving manga set in the 19th century England - all things I love. I highly recommend this series
I’m gonna indulge myself by buying the continuation from where I stopped some years ago. But, first, rereading up to that point! ^>^
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Some say the cake is a lie when you reach lv 60. So, I took matters in my own hands by making one for my lv 60 level up.
Therefore I was VERY surprised when I suddenly got a “cake” spread delivered to my doorstep! O_O 
Durtle on Fire chocolate cupcake! 
I have my suspicions. I mean, did WaniKani actually send me this? Or was it you @KyokaJiro?! 
Or even someone else? Whoever you are, mystery cake giver, thank you for the delicious cake! 美味しかった! 
EDIT: it would seem all other suspects have denied involvement and that leaves me to just say: thank you Wanikani team for the delicious cake! ^>^ 
@koichi @TofuguKanae @TofuguJenny @Aya and the rest of the team at Tofugu: you’re all amazing for creating WK and helping so many of us learn kanji! ^>^
Now I think I need another bite of cake!
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Congrats ekg san 
That looks as beautiful as it is delicious
I think it might be sent by WK. I didn’t send this one.
I can’t think of anyone else who can offer custom Durtle cakes to users 
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So the cake really is REAL! OMG! 
Thank you WK team! ^>^
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Time for an update! ^>^
Things have calmed down a lot since I got to lv 60. And I’m now slowly moving toward that sweet point of having finished 50% of WK!
The leeches are also again going down in numbers which makes me happy. There’s 141 leeches right now.
I feel like I again have more energy to work on them.
I’m also planning to to a bit of special training of groups of items that I feel are extra important to get right, such as time items.
I don’t know why they confuse me so, but I keep mixing some of them up. I think it makes sense to just create a list of all items and study them until I truly feel confident about using them.
TIME ITEMS to review (ongoing list, will update)
客月 【かくげつ】 (n-adv,n-t) last month
昨日【きのう】(n-adv,n-t) yesterday, (P)
昨日【さくじつ】(n-adv,n-t) yesterday, (P)
一昨日 【おととい】 (n-adv,n-t) day before yesterday, (P)
一昨日 【いっさくじつ】 (n-adv,n-t) day before yesterday, (P)
一昨日 【おとつい】 (n-adv,n-t) day before yesterday
一昨年 【いっさくねん】 (n-adv,n-t) year before last, (P)
一昨年 【おととし】 (n-adv,n-t) year before last, (P)
一昨晩 【いっさくばん】 (n-t) night before last
一昨夜 【いっさくや】 (n-t) night before last
一昨年辺り 【いっさくねんあたり】 (n) the year before last or thereabouts
先先月 【せんせんげつ】 (n-t) month before last
一昨々日 【いっさくさくじつ】 (n-adv,n-t) two days before yesterday
一昨々日 【さきおとつい】 (n-adv,n-t) two days before yesterday
一昨々日 【さきおととい】 (n-adv,n-t) two days before yesterday
一昨昨年 【いっさくさくねん】 (n-adv,n-t) two years before last
一昨昨年 【さきおととし】 (n-adv,n-t) two years before last
一昨々夜 【いっさくさくや】 (n) two nights before last
隔月 【かくげつ】 (n) every second month, every other month, (P)
明日 【あした】 (n-t) tomorrow, (P)
明日 【あす】 (n-t) tomorrow, (P)
明日 【みょうにち】 (n-t) tomorrow, (P)
翌月 【よくげつ】 (n-adv,n-t) following month, (P)
来月 【らいげつ】 (n-adv,n-t) next month, (P)
日々 【ひび】 (n-adv,n-t) every day, daily, day after day, (P)
日増しに 【ひましに】 (adv) day by day, (P)
日増し 【ひまし】 (n) day by day, daily
日一日と 【ひいちにちと】 (exp) day by day
日々 【にちにち】 (n-adv,n-t) every day, daily, day after day
毎月【まいげつ】(n-adv,n) every month, each month, monthly, (P)
毎月【まいつき】(n-adv,n) every month, each month, monthly, (P)
各月【かくつき】(n) every month
月月【つきづき】(n-adv,n-t) every month
例月【れいげつ】(n-t) every month
年中 【ねんじゅう】 (n-adv,n) whole year, always, everyday, (P)
年々歳々 【ねんねんさいさい】 (adv,n) annually, every year, year in year out (adv,n) all year round, year after year
年が年中 【ねんがねんじゅう】 (adv) all year round, year after year
年百年中 【ねんびゃくねんじゅう】 (adv) throughout the year, all the year round, always
通年 【つうねん】 (n) all year, year round, (P)
年ごとに【としごとに】(adv) annually, every year
年毎【としごと】(n-t) every year, year by year
年毎に【としごとに】(adv) annually, every year
毎年 【まいとし】 (n-t) every year, yearly, annually, (P)
年々 【ねんねん】 (n-adv,n-t) years, year by year, annually, considering his age, (P)
年々 【としどし】 (n-adv,n-t) years, year by year, annually, considering his age
年年歳歳 【ねんねんさいさい】 (adv,n) annually, every year, year in year out
毎年 【まいねん】 (n-t) every year, yearly, annually, (P)
連年【れんねん】(n-t) every year, year after year
累年【るいねん】(n-t) successive years
年甫 【ねんぽ】 (n) beginning of the year
年末 【ねんまつ】 (n-adv,n-t) end-of-year, (P)
年明け 【ねんあけ】 (n) (1) beginning of the year, early in the new year, (2) expiration of a term of service, (P)
年までに 【ねんまでに】 (adv) before the year …
年暮れる 【としくれる】 (exp) the year ends
年内に 【ねんないに】 (adv) within the year, before the year is out
晩春 【ばんしゅん】 (n-adv,n) late spring
晩夏 【ばんか】 (n-adv,n) late summer
晩秋 【ばんしゅう】 (n-adv,n) late autumn (fall)
晩冬 【ばんとう】 (n-adv,n) (in) late winter
明け烏【あけがらす】(n) (1) daybreak sound of a crow, (2) (name of) poetry anthology
明け初める【あけそめる】(v1) to dawn
明け渡る【あけわたる】(v5r) darkness giving way to the light of the morning
明ける【あける】(v1) to dawn, to become daylight, (P)
曙【あけぼの】(n) dawn, daybreak, beginning, (P)
朝明け【あさあけ】(n) dawn, daybreak
日中 【にっちゅう】 (n-adv,n-t) (1) daytime, during the day, (2)
日中 【ひなか】 (n-t) daytime, broad daylight
日照時間 【にっしょうじかん】 (n) daylight hours, hours of sunshine
晩に 【ばんに】 (adv) in the evening
晩方 【ばんがた】 (n-adv,n-t) toward evening
明け方 【あけがた】 (n-adv,n-t) dawn, (P)
朝方 【あさがた】 (n-adv,n) toward morning, (P)
朝晩 【あさばん】 (n-adv,n-t) morning and evening, (P)
朝な夕な 【あさなゆうな】 (n-adv,n-t) morning and evening
朝間 【あさま】 (n) during the morning
朝っぱら 【あさっぱら】 (n) in the early morning
朝早く 【あさはやく】 (exp) early in the morning
朝来 【ちょうらい】 (adv,n) ever since morning
朝夕【ちょうせき】(n-adv,n-t) morning and evening, from morning until night, constantly, (P)
朝夕【あさゆう】(n-adv,n-t) morning and evening, from morning until night, constantly
明け暮れ 【あけくれ】 (n-adv,n-t) morning and evening, all the time, (P)
日限 【ひぎり】 (n) fixed or appointed date
日取り 【ひどり】 (n) fixed date, appointed day, (P)
日時 【にちじ】 (n) date and time, (P)
日程 【にってい】 (n) schedule, program, programme, agenda, (P)
期日 【きじつ】 (n) fixed date, settlement date, (P)
日にち 【ひにち】 (n) the number of days, date
日日 【ひにち】 (n) the number of days, date, (P)
日数 【にっすう】 (n) a number of days, (P)
日数 【ひかず】 (n) a number of days
日子 【にっし】 (n) (number of) days
年数 【ねんすう】 (n) number of years, (P)
箇月 【かげつ】 (suf) (number of) months, (P)
カ月 【かげつ】 (suf) (number of) months
ヵ月 【かげつ】 (suf) (number of) months
ヶ月 【かげつ】 (suf) (number of) months
累月 【るいげつ】 (n-t) a number of months
数ヶ月 【すうかげつ】 (n) several months
数ケ月 【すうかげつ】 (n) several months
数カ月 【すうかげつ】 (n) several months
数か月 【すうかげつ】 (n) several months
年 【とし】 (n-adv,n) year, age, (P)
年齢 【ねんれい】 (n) age, years, (P)
年代 【ねんだい】 (n) age, era, period, date, (P)
年頃 【としごろ】 (adv,n) age, marriageable age, age of puberty, adolescence, for some years, (P)
年令 【ねんれい】 (n) age, years
年月日 【ねんがっぴ】 (n) date, (P)
時間 【じかん】 (n-adv,n) time, (P)
時 【とき】 (n-adv,n) (1) time, hour, (2) occasion, moment, (P)
年間 【ねんかん】 (n-t) year, (P)
壮年 【そうねん】 (n) prime of life, (P)
中年 【ちゅうねん】 (n) middle-aged, (P)
零時【れいじ】 (n) 12 o’clock (midnight), (P)
今晩 【こんばん】 (n-adv,n-t) tonight, this evening, (P)
新年【しんねん】(n-adv,n-t) New Year, (P)
正月 【しょうがつ】 (n) New Year, New Year’s Day, the first month, January, (P)
隔年 【かくねん】 (n-adv,n-t) biannually, every second year, every other year
年に一度 【ねんにいちど】 (n) once a year
年次 【ねんじ】 (n) chronological, (P)
年来 【ねんらい】 (n-adv,n-t) for some years, (P)
年余 【ねんよ】 (n) more than a year
年後 【ねんご】 (n) years later
長年 【ながねん】 (n-adv,n-t) long time, many years, (P)
数億年 【すうおくねん】 (n) several hundreds of million of years, (P)
至福千年 【しふくせんねん】 (n) millennium
十年 【じゅうねん】 (n) ten years, decade
百年 【ひゃくねん】 (n) century, hundred years
半年 【はんとし】 (n-adv,n-t) half year, (P)
半年 【はんねん】 (n-adv,n-t) half year, (P)
半か月 【はんかげつ】 (n) half a month
半月 【はんつき】 (n-adv,n-t) half-moon, half month, semicircle, (P)
半月 【はんげつ】 (n-adv,n-t) half-moon, half month, semicircle
適時【てきじ】(adj-na,adj-no,n) timely, opportune, (P)
随時【ずいじ】(n-adv,n) at any time, as occasion calls, (P)
既設【きせつ】(n) established, existing
何時何時【いつなんどき】(adv) at any time, every moment
年月【としつき】(n) months and years, (P)
年月【ねんげつ】(n) months and years, (P)
歳月 【としつき】 (n-t) time, years
何時【いつ】(n-adv) (uk) when, how soon, (P)
何箇月 【なんかげつ】 (n) how many months
何か月 【なんかげつ】 (n) how many months?, how long?
何月 【なんがつ】 (n) what month
即時 【そくじ】 (n) promptly, immediately, (P)
近近 【ちかぢか】 (adv) nearness, before long
んじつげつ】 (n) short period of time
一日片時 【いちにちへんじ】 (n) short time
瞬時 【しゅんじ】 (n-adv,n-t) moment, instant, (P)
一時 【いちじ】 (n-adv,n) one hour, short time, once, a time, temporarily, at one time, twelfth part of a day, (P)
一時 【ひととき】 (n-adv,n) moment, time, (P)
片時 【かたとき】 (n) a moment, an instant
近時 【きんじ】 (n-adv,n-t) recently
近頃 【ちかごろ】 (n-adv,n-t) lately, recently, nowadays, (P)
最近 【さいきん】 (adj-no,n-adv,n-t) latest, most recent, nowadays, (P)
近時 【きんじ】 (n-adv,n-t) recently
近年 【きんねん】 (n-adv,n-t) recent years, (P)
一年 【いちねん】 (n) one year, some time ago
一年 【ひととせ】 (n) one year, some time ago
一年 【ひととし】 (n) one year, some time ago
周年 【しゅうねん】 (n) whole year, anniversary, (P)
一周年 【いっしゅうねん】 (n) one full year, (P)
一箇年 【いっかねん】 (ok) (n) one year
丸一年 【まるいちねん】 (n) the whole year, all the year
一両年 【いちりょうねん】 (n) a year or two
一月 【いちげつ】 (n) one month
一か月 【いっかげつ】 (n) one month
一ヶ月 【いっかげつ】 (n) one month
一箇月 【いっかげつ】 (oK) (n) one month
今晩 【こんばん】 (n-adv,n-t) tonight, this evening, (P)
今年 【ことし】 (n-adv,n-t) this year, (P)
本年 【ほんねん】 (n-adv,n-t) this (current) year, (P)
今月 【こんげつ】 (n-adv,n-t) this month, (P)
今時 【いまどき】 (n-adv,n-t) present day, today, recently, these days, nowadays, at this hour
昨年 【さくねん】 (n-adv,n-t) last year, (P)
前年 【ぜんねん】 (n-adv,n-t) the preceding year, last year, (P)
去年 【こぞ】 (n-adv,n-t) last year
客年 【きゃくねん】 (n-adv,n-t) last year
客年 【かくねん】 (n-adv,n-t) last year
前月 【ぜんげつ】 (n) last month, previous month
客月 【かくげつ】 (n-adv,n-t) last month
一昨昨年 【さきおととし】 (n-adv,n-t) two years before last
一昨昨年 【いっさくさくねん】 (n-adv,n-t) two years before last
次年 【じねん】 (n) the next year
明後年 【さらいねん】 (n-t) the year after next
来る年 【くるとし】 (n) the coming year
後年 【こうねん】 (n-adv,n-t) future years, in (one’s) later years
翌年 【よくねん】 (n-t) following year, (P)
来年 【らいねん】 (n-adv,n-t) next year, (P)
翌翌年 【よくよくねん】 (n-t) two years later
明後年 【みょうごねん】 (n-t) the year after next
再来年 【さらいねん】 (n-adv,n-t) year after next, (P)
再来月 【さらいげつ】 (n-adv,n-t) month after next, (P)
同時 【どうじ】 (adj-no,n) simultaneous(ly), concurrent, same time, synchronous, (P)
当時 【とうじ】 (n-adv,n-t) at that time, in those days, (P)
同年 【どうねん】 (n-adv,n-t) that year, same year, same age, (P)
当年 【とうねん】 (n-adv,n-t) the present year, at that time
同月【どうげつ】(n-adv,n-t) the same month, (P)
当月【とうげつ】(n-adv,n-t) this month
次期 【じき】 (n) next term, next period, (P)
定時 【ていじ】 (n) regular time, stated period, (P)
期間 【きかん】 (n) period, term, (P)
期限 【きげん】 (n) term, period, (P)
期末 【きまつ】 (n) end of term, (P)
期首 【きしゅ】 (n) beginning of a term
期内 【きない】 (n) during a period, while
期 【き】 (n,n-suf) period, time
時季 【じき】 (n-adv,n-t) seasons
季節 【きせつ】 (n) season, (P)
火曜日 【かようび】 (n-adv,n) Tuesday, (P)
金曜日 【きんようび】 (n-adv,n) Friday, (P)
月曜日 【げつようび】 (n-adv,n) Monday, (P)
水曜日 【すいようび】 (n-adv,n) Wednesday, (P)
土曜日 【どようび】 (n-adv,n) Saturday, (P)
日曜日 【にちようび】 (n-adv,n) Sunday, (P)
日曜 【にちよう】 (n-adv,n) Sunday, (P)
一月 【いちがつ】 (n-adv) January, (P)
二月 【にがつ】 (n-adv) February, (P)
三月 【さんがつ】 (n-adv) March, (P)
四月 【しがつ】 (n-adv) April, (P)
五月 【ごがつ】 (n-adv) May
六月 【ろくがつ】 (n-adv) June, (P)
七月 【しちがつ】 (n-adv) July, (P)
八月 【はちがつ】 (n-adv) August, (P)
九月 【くがつ】 (n-adv) September, (P)
十月 【じゅうがつ】 (n-adv) October, (P)
十一月 【じゅういちがつ】 (n-adv) November, (P)
十二月 【じゅうにがつ】 (n-adv) December, (P)
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How do you plan to study this list? Do you plan to use the Item List optional filter in Item Inspector?
If you enable this filter in the optional filter setting you can study the listed items in Item Inspector and be quizzed on them with the Self Study Quiz button.
The procedure:
- Configure the Item List filter in the optional filters settings
- Refresh your browser to cause the change to take effect
- This will cause three new filters to appear in the filters tab call radical list, kanji list and vocabulary list…
- Type in the time item in the vocabulary list filter separated by commas.
- In the item type filter select the vocabulary items. This is required to avoid spurious radicals and kanji to appear in the table.
This will cause your time items show up in a table ready for studying.
As an alternative you may use the Explicit list filter that does the same thing with more features. The procedure.
- Enable the Kanjidic2/Traditional radicals optional filter
- Refresh your browser to make the change take effect.
- This will cause several filter to show up. The one you want is called Explicit List
- Configure your items in this filter
Edit: i see you have augmented your list. For this many items the explicit list filter will work better because you have a larger box to edit your item list.
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Thank you! I’ll be looking into the explicit list then! Sounds good. I hadn’t really thought about how to go about it, beyond just repetition learning. I’m still not done with the list either. ^^;
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Time for a quick update. I’m very close to reaching 50% burns. ^>^
And apprentice and guru items keep going down. As are the number of leeches. Current leech count is 144 leeches.
All in all, not too bad! ^>^
Now back to leech training!
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You got this! Glad to see you progressing so well 
Does @trunklayer now you are taking pics of him during his workouts?
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So, it’s finally happened. I’ve reached the true WK half-way point!
It’s only going to get easier from now on. I do hope I get to burn lots of durtles
before my subscription runs out. I don’t plan on renewing it as I don’t see it as especially useful to insist on burning all, with the extra cost involved (if so, I should have gotten lifetime).
I hope that by the late summer this year, much should be burned or in Enlightened (or having been in Enlightened) and that should be good enough.
Now is the time to focus on reading as much as I want and enforcing kanji and vocab that way.
I still haven’t started with BunPro…I’m still not convinced I’ll enjoy the format. But, we’ll see. There are also lots of other grammar resources! ^>^
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I sort of forgot to also update my leech count. At the end of today, many Burns, Mastered, and Enlightened items later I had gotten rid of another 10 leeches. They’re now down to 132!
If only I could remember “to be afflicted”, and “address”. 
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seeing that 住所 in your leeches worries me, i’m already struggling with it
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I keep on answering “admission fee”! >_> And then remembering, no, this is address! For “to be afflicted”, it’s the reading that I keep forgetting 患う (わずらう).
But, I’ve burned some of those really stubborn leeches recently, items that I’ve failed to burn and then have seen moving between mastered and guru’d.
I some cases I haven’t yet seen the item in the wild. Or I have, but didn’t notice (essentially before WK). As I read more stuff now, I do make a stronger connection with vocab and kanji and that makes some leeches go away naturally.
And in the meanwhile, I do leech training. It’s the best I’ve got that’s pretty time efficient.
I’m sure you’ll eventually master your leeches as well. 頑張って! ^>^
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Today I checked out my accuracy. Not from WK stats, but rather from here Wanikani Statistics
The numbers sort of jives with my general understanding of my WK journey also. I’ve used A1 and A2 as learning rounds for as long as I needed. Some items I learn immediately, others I fails a couple of times at least before Guruing.
Items pretty much move up, only for G2 to be the next big hurdle. Again several items get sent down to A3 and rehashed to get better retention (these are temporary leeches).
As for items being failed at Master and Enlightened, those may very well be real leeches - items I’ve really struggled with to get that far, but which still hasn’t been fully learned.
But, those numbers are not half-bad! I’m glad my burn-rate isn’t a complete disaster. Not the least since I won’t have time for “second attempt”-burns for the last levels (either I burn them on the first try, or not at all before my subscription runs out).
I wonder how many % of the total burns I’ll end up before my subscription ends? ^>^ waku waku
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Time for an update. It’s finally showing that I’ve got no new lessons and reviews are decreasing each day. 
Some stats…
Workload Graph
Wanikani timemachine
Final Heatmap lessons
Current Heatmap reviews
And finally today’s review forecast for the week…
There is certainly no need to panic if I can’t do my reviews on a particular day. I find I enjoy this relaxed leisurely tempo a lot. Or rather, the flexibility of it. Though I still do my reviews every day.
Which reminds me I’ve got 30-ish waiting for me…^^ Might as well get them done!
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