Hello, I am fairly new to WaniKani and keep reading in all the posts how people set how many lessons you do a day. I have been in the settings and adjusted the limit of lessons, but have been unable to figure out a way to get a set amount of lessons a day. I really want to grind and finish WaniKani as quickly as possible, but it takes me such a long time to reach the next level, because I have lessons infrequently.
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You need to go to Settings â App â Lesson Settings â Maximum Recommended Daily Lessons to set a fixed amount of lessons to do every day. All you need to do then is do these lessons. Of course, you also have to have available lessons in order for this to work.
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You might not want to go too fast, though, as you will eventually burn out
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Just to explain âhow to level up fastâ because it can be buried in the knowledge pages:
Getting radicals to guru level will unlock the remaining kanji for your level. Getting 90% of the kanji for that level will bring you to the next level with new radicals. To level up ASAP you need to:
- Do radical lessons/reviews ASAP
- Start kanji anytime between when you start radicals and when your radicals have gurued (this is a 3d10h window for every level except 1+2, or more time with mistakes)
- Do all the kanji lessons by the time your radicals have gurued
- If you do all your kanji reviews exactly on time, they will guru in another 3d10h
- Assuming you answered 90% of the kanji correctly, youâll level up
This means you can go back to Step 1.
The timings for reviews are 4 hours later â 8 hours later â 23 hours later â 47 hours later. This gives you the 3d10h I keep talking about. You donât have to strictly follow this, but if you stall your reviews by 10 hours or something then you can accidentally delay level up time by a lot.
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Just to set some expectations most levels take just under 7 days if you optimize the schedule and have a consistently high review accuracy.
Some levels are âfastâ, including the first few levels and some higher levels.
What makes a level fast is that you donât have any kanji locked behind a radical on the same level. So you can learn all the kanji on the level immediately and then review all of them.
Fast levels take just under 4 days.
In my experience itâs was the most manageable to do one level in ~9 days. Itâs on the faster side but gives you some leeway.
And youâll be at lvl 60 in about 1.5 years. Or lvl 50 in just 15 months.
I think itâs important to get the base of the bb kanji down as far as you can so that you can read stuff.
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Itâs also worth noting that you only need âconsistently high review accuracyâ on the current level kanji and radical reviews. You can easily speedrun WK with under 30% review accuracy if youâre getting 100% on the ones that matter for advancement. I wouldnât recommend this, since it will make you miserable, but itâs certainly possible (I did it myself in my first year of Japanese).
All you need to do to advance on WK is to get the current-level kanji reviews right four times at specific time intervals over three days. You donât have to understand them and you can forget them after three days and still keep speedrunning.
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One other tip for speedrunning: a big challenge at high levels is mixing up current level kanji with previous level kanji. If youâre just cramming each levelâs kanji for three days and then forgetting them, thereâs a big risk of mixing them up with previous level kanji.
Of course one trick is to just always answer the answer for the current level when in doubt, which will cause you to never miss one that matters for advancement, but thatâs kind of unsatisfying.
Another trick is to carefully manipulate the timings of your reviews. If youâre only doing 3.5day/7day levels like I did for most of the year, that means you have 2 hours of margin on each level, which you can use to sculpt your review periods.
Specifically, you want to have the current level kanji reviews appear at a specific time with as few unrelated items as possible so you can focus on them. Therefore, try to arrange all your review times so that your previous level items will come back up for review 1 hour before the current level kanji reviews do, and then slog through those ahead of time. That will give you a mostly clean review session on the next hour for the reviews that actually matter.
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Maybe I am missing something, but is not the purpose of studying and learning something pretty much the exact opposite of that? Maybe I am just too old school, but I am studying Japanese for the purpose of understanding it and being able to use it (i.e. remember things, not forget them).
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Iâm not saying itâs a good idea to speedrun WK like I did. Personally I think itâs a bad idea and even warned against it, but figured Iâd give advice in case people decided to do it anyway.
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My main reason for wanting to grind is to get to a level where I am learning new content. At level 5 and around level 15 is where Iâll actually start learning brand new kanji
Hey! I was in the same boat when I started with WaniKani. What really worked for me was setting a daily review goal and being flexible with how many new lessons I took on each day. I aimed for a set number of reviews and adjusted the new lessons based on how I was feeling. It helped me keep up the momentum without getting overwhelmed.
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of course! learning a new (and diffiuclt language) should be NOTHING but fun and enjoyable.
if you arent having fun. why learn⊠ya knowww?? 
Hi.
Iâm sorry to ask you this :â
Iâm new in wanikani and have been using wanikani for 11 days but the web rarely give me a new lessons (iâm still stuck at lv1 even tho i already in N4)
I regularly do my review *but i have so much typo while writing, so my progress kinda late.
I started to set my setting just as you said (for now i just set 100 max new lessons) but the thing is, the web still didnât give me a new lesson 
I wonder if the accuracy play a role in new lesson :â(
Also, how do I get into guruâs level while they just give me 2 times review and iâm still stuck in apprentice level :â((((
Also, please reply this msgđ„č your advice will help me a lot
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It sounds like you ran out of available lessons for now. Once you guru more kanji youâll unlock more vocab lessons. You can read about wanikaniâs srs stages here.
Accuracy doesnât directly effect your lessons, i.e. wanikani wonât withhold lessons just because your accuracy drops under a certain threshold, however answering a kanji review wrong will delay your unlocked vocab lessons for that specific kanji, and possibly your level up speed.
If typos are too much of a problem you can use the undo script.
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I would suggest that you check out the FAQ to get an understanding of how WaniKani works. You will find answers to all your questions there.
Thank you for the advice!
Iâm currently doing my lv2 with 100 kanjis. Hope i wont get burn out :v
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Thank you sm!! Finally iâm in lv2 huwhahahâ:sob:
thats a lot 
dont get burnt out! take breaks !!