People tend to talk about what a good number of Apprentice items is. But I want to know what everyone thinks a good number of Guru items is. Also, feel free to mention what your current Guru count is for comparison.
Even though there a few threads about this, I figured this would be a good opportunity for a poll.
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The number of guru items isnāt something you can control as easily as apprentice items, since itās heavily dependent on accuracy. Iām leveling up pretty fast and do all my lessons as soon as I get them, which increases the number of gurus, but my accuracy is also quite high, so the number usually lands on 300 something, without controlling it at all. So I guess Iāll be answering 300-400, just because thatās what Iāve always been at.
once they hit guru, i donāt really worry. they begin to naturally sort themselves out based on me knowing them quite a bit at that point.
@Kumirei Right, I think thatās actually the heart of the question. Even though itās not as easy to control, I think people can generally tell if their current Guru count is too high.
What is your accuracy by the way?
Iād love to hear from a level 60 member to see what they think. At my current level I donāt worry so much about guruāed items but I think that when you start hitting the higher levels, if you donāt try for more accuracy on guru, then you end up extending your timeline for burning everything significantlyćØęć.
Personnally I also do all my lessons as soon as they come out, and this way Iāve always kept my apprentice level below 150.
I donāt pay attention to my guru numbersā¦ Currently 567, and 577 master, 1551 enlightened, 0 burnt yet. it seems pretty much under control, I rarely get more than 200 reviews in one day, which is fairly easy to manage, and sometimes even less than a hundred.
To be honest, though, I donāt monitor my apprentice count either
@andypj1 I canāt speak for level 60 people of course, but my accuracy is around 95% and after a while I start getting overwhelmed with reviews. Thatās with an average of 100 Apprentice items (+/- 40 depending on where I am in a level) and always less than 600 Guru items (currently around 550). At level 10 I took a two week break from lessons to just do reviews and decrease my Apprentice and Guru piles. Iām going to do the same next week when I get to level 21 and I plan to do this every 10 levels or so.
I guess you wouldnāt need to with that accuracyā¦ For comparison:
Do you need to with your accuracy? I mean 96% is pretty damn good
I am a bit lower than you, yet iāve never felt overwhelmed. My review pile never goes higher than 200. Did you spend one or two days without reviewing at that time and your pile grew higher?
@Kumirei I donāt know. It might have to do with where a lot of my misses take place. I have a lot of items that bounce back and forth between Apprentice and Guru, which just causes a lot of repeated reviews.
@kisscolle Iāve almost never gone to bed with reviews left. I think it comes down to WaniKani taking up so much of my time. Iām also studying vocabulary on iknow.jp, which just increases the amount I have to review.
Level 60 here.
As mentioned in this topic: To lv 46+ers, what is your strategy for 3.5-days' levels? - #12 by Goutye , having 500 to 600 guru items is doable.
However, due to 4 days levels, my guru stack started to get bigger and bigger, reaching 850 items at one point. This was the point where I was unable to pursue such rhythm. I decided to stop and do only reviews until my stack goes back to 500 to 600 items.
500 to 600 items is still something like > 200 reviews a day. It will then require a lot of time. Good luck 
To add some charts on that, the mistake in doing the multiple 4 days level in a row results in a Tsunami that goes from Apprentice to Enlightened over 2 months.
As you can see, the February items Iāve done are now messing up my Enlightened number, and messed up my Guru number before. So instead of having a normal pace, you ll end up with the double of reviews during a few weeks with a peak at one point. And that peak will certainly be a 18days level for you instead of your regular 7 days.
My best advice is then to stay regular, but to progress. Same pace, always. The brain loves it.
i came back to WK just over a month ago and cut my level by just touch over half to help re-acclimate myself to all the memories again (probably couldāve kept level in hindsight, i had better recall than i thought), so my guru is at 1200 right now. Itās quickly filtering to upper tiers so Iām not too worried.
Ideally I would like to have 0 guru with 8792 burned.
Your accuracy scares me : ) how do you manage it? Is it pre-studying or generally having a lot of practice outside WK or something different?
Had already studied for a year when I started WK
Studied Japanese in general or studied kanji?
Personally Iāve studied Chinese, and it helps a lot for the meanings and even for the onāyomi readings (not always, but sometimes I donāt even need the mnemonics, I just think āitās like in chineseā), whether for kanji or for vocabulary.
Itās pretty interesting but Iām starting to be confused sometimes, when I want to use a chinese word and I recall first the japanese reading. Luckily it doesnāt happen so muchā¦yet.
