I’ve been here for a few months now and absolutely loving it. I usually have around an hour a day to be on Wanikani. This is alongside a full time job and 4 hours per week of 1-1 lessons on iTalki with a tutor (were currently getting towards the end of Genki 1) although I’ll have to do a load of rev…

When I was leveling up in WaniKani, I was working at a job that had a lot of unavoidable downtime I had to fill somehow. That kind of thing isn’t visible in the little number badges on the forum, but it can sure go a long way. On the flipside, I haven’t done any italki sessions yet, and doing that …

I’m pretty slow too, but I think I’ve finally found a efficient schedule, and this level might probably “only” 16-17 days. I make the schedule based on 10 lessons/day, minus radicals days that are 10+ 5 vocab (I’m currently in radical-rich levels :rofl:), depending on the number of vocab that unloc…

assuming one has enough time on hand to do reviews, it’s the number of lessons one does which determine one’s speed. at 10 lessons per day, it’ll take some 850 days (more or less, i forget exactly how many items WK teaches). if you do 5 lessons a day, it’ll be twice as long. if you do 20, half. for…

I actually only spend about an hour a day on WK, but I split it up into morning, noon, and night. [image] I stick to less than 100 Apprentice items and no more than 20 lessons per day and I’ve been able to do a comfortable 11 days per level.

I do all lessons as soon as they are available, make sure to get my 4 hour review in later during the day, my 8 hour review first thing in the morning, and then just do all reviews around the same time in the morning, except for when I need to do the 4 hour reviews. I’m still fairly early after rese…

I’ve had success with keeping a steady pace after I downloaded a third party WaniKani app. There’s a couple on the App store if you just type in WaniKani. I may not have access to a computer at all times, but I always know my phone is on me, which encourages me to do my reviews more often throughout…

I guess this depends on how much time you spend on it, how accurate you are with reviews, and how much you try to optimize “speed running” WK by prioritizing kanji and radicals over vocabulary, as the former two block level up progress while the latter does not.

I get surprised that people can finish the levels in the least amount of time possible (6-7 days). :sweat_smile:

Most of the really fast ones either focus entirely on WK, spend A LOT of time studying it or already know a lot of the words and/or Kanji. Not to say that there aren’t any geniuses here though, but you should go at the speed that you find comfortable, no use in comparing yourself to anyone. (And if …

Even if you can’t completely clean out your review stack every day, you can be sure that you’re doing your current level reviews daily, or when they come up, or at least more often. A phone app like Tsurukame can reorder reviews so you get current level reviews first (so you can Guru your radicals a…

How do people climb so fast!?

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DurtleHeaven March 25, 2021, 3:40pm 22

You can always join us in the slow lane

Let the journey be part of the process.

I subscribed in January myself.

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