Finally. It was delayed by a few days due to going on vacation mode while I was sick and could not brain for a few days last week. Should have been over the weekend. But I finally got my first burns. Just the radicals of course, which I don’t particularly care about, but still, feels good to have something in that elusive upper category. 
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Congratulations!! Feels pretty good, eh? 
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Congrats! 
Now go burn those other turtles as well 
頑張って！
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Congratulations! Wow, to get your first burns at level 19, you must be going crazy fast!
がんばって！ 
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Congrats!!! I’m still 30 days away from my first burns. EAGERLY AWAITING!
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Brains = burns ! Congrats!
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Well done! I’ve hit a bit of a sweet spot lately where get a few each day and it’s an amazing feeling that you’re actually making progress!
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Congratulations and well done @sporadic! You are even going to overtake me in levels soon! 
Way to go! All the best on your WK journey, speed racer 
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Will feel even better when I start burning kanji in a few days, but yeah, it’s good to finally get there.
Not really…? Or at least, not anymore. I had a hidden ace in the hole for the early levels. I did RTK years and years ago and had a small cache of Japanese vocabulary as well. Most of it has been forgotten, but the simple kanji/vocab of the early levels were very easy to re-acquire. I did the 7-8 day thing for the first 12 or so levels until the review workload got to be too much. I’m doing around 12-14 per level now, which seems much more reasonable.
As mentioned above, my earlier levels were much faster than current ones. I’ve settled into a rhythm though, so I hope to maintain this pace for awhile. Depends on how many Enlightened I start getting wrong and what that does to the review queue over time, probably.
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Congrats and I was happy with my first Master…
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A first Master is an accomplishment worth celebrating, too! Just wait til you see it hit Enlightened
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Good job, I know that feel. Also it seems you’re moving quite fast. I had my first burn at LV10. Don’t get burned out, mate.
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just burned one also. level 16. rate seems fine for me now.
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It really takes that long to burn something?! Wow!!! Congrats!!! I hope I can get as far as you too!
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It’s around 6 months for first burns. The exact time will vary depending on how rigorously you schedule your reviews. Levels completed don’t matter for burns, just time. I managed to keep a decent pace early on, so got fairly far before burning. But I’m going slower now, so I’m not going to finish anywhere near that quickly.
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Me too! Six months, level 14 for me. Maybe that’s useful information for others wondering how this burning thing works.
Yay us!
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