I learn everything in the learn queue as soon as it become available.
Currently I’m achieving 96% accuracy this way, if my accuracy was to drop below 90% I would likely slow down learning new items.
You need to find what works best for you. Just remember that more items means more reviews. I often wake up to a stack of 75+ reviews, but that is an ideal breakfast for me.
Personally, I don’t mind plowing through 100 reviews at once, but I prefer to have the review load spread out evenly day-to-day.
I use the “ascending level then subject” lesson order and all lessons at once, except:
So on a good day, if I recall all of the kanji on the first review, then I can unlock everything in a few 4-hour intervals. On a bad day, if I can’t recall anything, at least I don’t have more than 5-10 new kanji to focus on. (In general I find radicals stupid and vocab easy, the big challenge is brand-new kanji.)
YMMV, of course.
I’m in the do everything crowd myself. I can’t stand seeing numbers greater than zero up there.
Greetings everyone. I’ve just started a few days ago and this thread has so far been the most interesting to me, as I was also curious how fast others were going. The impulsive need to compare oneself to others 
I’m currently living in Japan, but without a Visa, so I have to leave every 90 days. That’s fine, I visit friends back home and then return. I bet nobody can guess the city in Japan where I live 
I’ve tried enrolling in language schools full time, but the pace is too fast for me! My current goal is to learn a lot of Kanji and volcabulary. Once I feel I have enough knowledge, then I will try full time school again.
It looks like I’m learning about 9 new Kanji+Volcabulary daily. I’m looking forward to plowing through 3, and unlocking the rest of the levels with a subscription so I can estimate how long it will take me at my current rates.
I am really pumped up about this service. It fits with my need to measure progress.
Hi @tandeitnik, you will burnout if you study kanji/radicals more than you can handle in a day, especially once you reach higher levels, unless you are not doing anything in life but study, sleep, eat, poop and repeat. I have a day job, some hobbies and a family to enjoy. My advice is to keep a standard phase. In my current level, I aim for 15-20 Lessons and 150 Items reviewed per day. Don’t compare yourself with other learners who can finish a certain level for 6 days. Some of them really don’t absorb the lessons well. Supplement your kanji learning by reading Japanese Graded Readers.
Well, let’s do some math, I’m leving up in a roughly 8-9 days cycle.For 3 days I learn the new kanji and keep my vocab down to 10 itens and, for the rest of the 5-6 days, it goes back up to 20. So it’s 10x3 + 5x20 = 130 to 150 vocab itens per level. So no, I’m not lagging behind, but when I’m leving up, say level 7 (i’m currently level 7, going to 8, the level 6 that appears next to my avatar is wrong) going to 8, I’m doing the vocab for level 6 - which is preety good, because it’s helping me to remember the kanji of the previous level. Tomorrow I’ll level up to level 8, but today I already learned some vocab from level 7 (today the list for level 6 ended and a couple of itens from lvl 7 appeared). So the pace is right! The backlog matches the previous level. Tomorrow I go to level 8, I will rush through the radical (I don’t count them as itens, they are too easy) and I’ll be already learning the vocab from lvl 7.
Thanks for answering my question. That’s pretty cool. Your pace/system is clever and keeps you moving through. I saw some people with hundreds of lessons so I wondered about that and asked.
ETA: I find the radicals kind of hard to be honest, because they’re so random. My accuracy for vocab and kanji meaning is higher than that for radicals.
Yeah, I think everyone has weak points… I don’t know, I just find the radicals easy to remember. There are no readings, it’s just a word that is linked with the image. Yeah, sometimes it’s needed a lot of imagination (like the radical PIG from level 7), but normally those are so absurd that they become easy just for the oddness. Besides that, if I get a radical wrong, I usually press the ignore button because I don’t see any advantage to letting them take more time to become guru.
When I first started I did all my lessons for WaniKani as soon as they came up.
Then I realised I was hit with the reviews all at once and they were incredibly hard to remember.
Now I try to space them out by doing 5-10 every hour and not all 50-60 as soon as I get them.
I usually knock them all off in a day or two still. I hate having pending lessons and reviews.
Just finished level 7, 9 days in total. Finished it with 105 vocab lessons opened, all from level 7, which is OK, I’ll learn them while I’m doing level 8, so I’ll be training the content of the previous level. Just finished with today’s lessons: did all the new radicals (15), plus 4 new kanji (starting tomorrow I’ll do 10 per day) and 11 vocab.
I’m really happy with this pace, like that it’ll take me 18 months in total to complete WK, which is preety good for me.
Good job! Also, welcome, I’m glad to have you join me in level 8. 18 months is really good. I’m trying to have a similar pace.
I find doing 15-30 lessons a day is a nice steady pace. Depending on my mood of course. Sometimes my day job leaves me a little more drained then normal. Or if life comes up or friends or blah blah. Of course, I’ll run through all the kanji and radicals as soon as they pop up.
As of now though I’m enjoying going fast. I’ll probably slow down a bit once I get a little higher and start injecting some grammar into my studies as well.
Edit: Also, hello level buddies!
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