I have a feature suggestion: How about a awarding people who have successfully passed all sixty levels a badge they can share on LinkedIn?
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Itâs been brought up before, in the suggestion on getting a certificate for finishing WK. ¨
But, the issue here are multiple: what does getting to lv 60 WK even mean?
-Having reached lv 60 doesnât mean youâve burnt all items = truly finished WK.
-You can install scripts to override wrong answers, and thus progress to lv 60 with little trouble.
-And finally, WK teaches only one aspect of the Japanese language, kanji, so finishing lv 60 doesnât mean you know Japanese.
I think while WK is great at what it does, itâs probably safer to not make it seem like itâs more than it is. Badges, certificates do signal some kind of measurable merit, and without some kind of final test, there is just no way to know what people take away from using WK.
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Oh, I wasnât aware of the scripting issue and the meaning of burnt items. Both are good points.
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I mean, much of that could also be said about language exams and online courses in general and those still give you a certificate.
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Iâd be embarrassed to put something like that on my LinkedIn page lol
WaniKani isnât a professional certification of Japanese skills and it never strived to be one. Itâs just a language learning platform
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Ah yes I want potential employers to know Iâm a massive weeb
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Whatâs wrong with that?! Itâs high time we stopped kink-shaming (us) weebs! 
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Many of the big cloud technology providers (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) provide certifications that you have to pay money and pass an exam for. But they also provide free badges for those who just completed their online training, without taking any official exam. People share these a lot on LinkedIn. My boss thinks this is cringey, but hey, if people shared âWaniKani Completion Badgesâ, it would be great promotion.
Thing is, there is already a much more robust tool for those purposes. Itâs callled the JLPT.
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Completing wanikani does show that you have some amount of grit and interesting in learning new (hard) things. If I saw it on someones CV I would definitely see it as a positive in terms of their character.
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Google, Amazon and Microsoft are all big names everyone knows, so I can see why people present those certificates in their profile to be associated with those companies. But I donât think itâs a stretch to say that WaniKani doesnât have nearly the same impact as those tech giants
And as @Logograph said, there is a more established way of certifying someoneâs Japanese, the JLPT. So itâs not like there arenât ways to showcase the results of the work youâve put into learning this language
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Unfortunately there isnât a whole lot of use in a potential candidate for a position who can read almost all jĹyĹ kanji, but canât read any actual Japanese sentences or comprehend spoken Japanese. Like others have said, having a WK badge - even if the readers of your profile knew what WK was - wouldnât demonstrate your abilities in Japanese like the JLPT does. Iâd say at best you could put it in your hobbies section to say âI like studying kanji in my free time, Iâm pretty good at sticking to things since Iâve been doing it for X amount of timeâ, but even that wouldnât actually prove very much because of the lack of official credibility that WK has (script and cheat synonym your way to 60 for easy gold circle).
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I do like shrimp and grits
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I gotta say, with all due respect, that just seeing the word âLinkedInâ makes me cringe in levels like
Not a fan of the horrendous culture behind that platform. Just me, of course.
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nope, not just you.
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Always a pleasure to meet a fellow LinkedIn hater 
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The last one is probably the trickiest hurdle. In the six months or so it will take you to burn everything after hitting 60, every content addition will add another 4-6 months on top of that.
Or itâs just hit level 60 and thatâs it, which kind of invalidates the extra work some people put in to keep up and get full burn.
If you want a certificate, a bit of extra work could probably get you at least Kanji Kentei level 10 after maybe 10 levels of WK or you could try for JLPT N5 after level 16 or so.
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Plus, official certification for Kanji you can take exam like Kanji Kantei too
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