# I'm stuck for six months on one level
**URL:** https://community.wanikani.com/t/im-stuck-for-six-months-on-one-level/27145
**Category:** WaniKani
**Created:** [February 1, 2018, 12:04pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/im-stuck-for-six-months-on-one-level/27145 "2018-02-01T12:04:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Veraxes](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Veraxes)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 12:04pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/im-stuck-for-six-months-on-one-level/27145/1 "2018-02-01T12:04:52Z")
So, I’m at 42 lvl now. The problem is that I was on that lvl for half a year and I did reviews every single day. My daily review dose was about 500 items at some point and about 200 right now. My apprentice-guru-etc distribution is on the screenshot.
 And lvl icon look slike that
I repeat - I’m not slacking, I’m doing all reviews every day. Sadly correct answer ratio dropped to about 50%, while about year ago I usually had it about 80-90%. I also should mention that I’m using reorder script which which makes things faster, because at this point I’m annoyed to do reviews every day without any progress. This script.
The question is - what the hell am I doing wrong?
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### Author:  [@seanblue](https://community.wanikani.com/u/seanblue)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 12:31pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/im-stuck-for-six-months-on-one-level/27145/2 "2018-02-01T12:31:28Z")
Are you finding that you’re getting the same items wrong over and over? If so, you have some leeches.
> [@Leech Squashing](https://community.wanikani.com/t/leech-squashing/17543):
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> Recreating this topic because the [Original Thread](https://community.wanikani.com/t/Team-Leech/14389) got archived. LEECH: An item in language learning that just won’t stick, and ends up wasting massive amounts of your time. 蛭 - ひる - Leech LEECH VARIETALS: Leech-tachi: That group of very similar items that you constantly confuse Leech-kun: That weird long random kunyomi that is only used for the vocab or verb version of a kanji. Leech-人: That rendaku’d-ass last kanji that you answer wrong 1 out of 7 times (is it leech-nin? leech-jin? leech-…
> [@\[Unsupported\] Dashboard Userscript: Leech, Apprentice, and Guru detail (aka SRS level progress)](https://community.wanikani.com/t/dashboard-userscript-leech-apprentice-and-guru-detail-aka-srs-level-progress/19353):
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> This script gives you fine grained counts of your SRS levels along with leech counts, so that you can see how you’re progressing: [image] You can install it here: [WaniKani SRS Level Progress](https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/32344-wanikani-srs-level-progress). The leech count is shown in the black boxes on the bottom right of each stage. For an SRS level breakdown of your leeches you can hover over the stage, like so: [32 PM] “What is a leech” you say? To see the leeches list you can click on the leech number: That list can be sorted by clicking…
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### Author:  [@gavinr](https://community.wanikani.com/u/gavinr)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/im-stuck-for-six-months-on-one-level/27145/3 "2018-02-01T12:33:20Z")
6 months on one level is impressive 🙂
Have you tried using a leech detector script? That might show you if you have a lot of kanji from this level that is stuck in apprentice.
142 apprentice items is a lot so that explains the large daily workload. Also, seeing ‘master’ items less than ‘guru’ suggests that stuff isn’t getting above guru and you’re in a kind of leech hell.
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### Author:  [@Veraxes](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Veraxes)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/im-stuck-for-six-months-on-one-level/27145/4 "2018-02-01T13:24:25Z")
Ok, I installed this script. 142/144 of apprentice and 370/450 of guru items is leeches. That’s, like, really bad, I guess? 😅 I can see this list of leeches, so now am I supposed to read through it, memorizing all of the items? Or is there other way to practice it?
UPD: found an article about dealing with them. Yeah, it seems the only way is to read thoroughly the whole list.
UPD2: What is recommended level to keep apprentice, guru items at?
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### Author:  [@jprspereira](https://community.wanikani.com/u/jprspereira)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/im-stuck-for-six-months-on-one-level/27145/5 "2018-02-01T13:37:02Z")
> [@Veraxes](#):
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> UPD2: What is recommended level to keep apprentice, guru items at?
In my opinion, apprentice items start becoming unbearable at 150, 130 is bearable. 100 is ideal. Below that is in the “easy standards”. Your problem is mainly with the leeches, not the usual items. This does not apply to you, since almost 100% of your items are leeches.
I would also advise you to install this script: it allows you to do extra reviews of the leeches.
> [@\[Unsupported\] Leech training script](https://community.wanikani.com/t/leech-training-script/21699):
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> The script is here: \_\_[WaniKani Leech Trainer](https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/35031-wanikani-leech-trainer__). The script will put together a lesson of 10 leeches. It will exclude any leech that is too recent (less than 24 hours since the last review), or too old (less than half the time between reviews remaining), or already trained. Any trained leech that is subsequently reviewed incorrectly goes back in the pool. This is more of less what it looks like (this animation is slightly out of date): Every leech is repeated 3 times in the lesson.…
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### Author:  [@2tea](https://community.wanikani.com/u/2tea)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 1:55pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/im-stuck-for-six-months-on-one-level/27145/6 "2018-02-01T13:55:52Z")
If you go to the statistics site you can get an image of your leaches
It would give you an immediate clue about where your problems are without having to go one by one.
You’ll be able to see if there are batches of leeches in particular levels.
If the problems are with recent levels I would reset a few levels back.
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### Author:  [@TamanegiNoKame](https://community.wanikani.com/u/TamanegiNoKame)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/im-stuck-for-six-months-on-one-level/27145/7 "2018-02-01T13:59:34Z")
One other thing, besides what other people mentioned. Do you read often? If you can try to make some time for that, I think it makes a big difference at this stage in the game for remembering everything. Just a thought. Best of luck!
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### Author:  [@tmahrt](https://community.wanikani.com/u/tmahrt)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/im-stuck-for-six-months-on-one-level/27145/8 "2018-02-01T14:50:57Z")
> [@Veraxes](#):
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> So, I’m at 42 lvl now. The problem is that I was on that lvl for half a year and I did reviews every single day.
I also spent 6 months on level 42!!! What a coincidence. 🙂
And I had the same problem. I wasn’t paying attention to my daily queue size and they just exploded at some point and I was overwhelmed. I sat on level 42 until I got my daily queue size to about 50. Now I try to keep it at around 100. I’d say hang in there!
I also installed the ignore script at level 42. When you’re buried in reviews, sending a burn item back 2 levels because of a typo hurts. (Also a good way to get rid of the more nasty leeches ; )
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### Author:  [@Iwasneverhere](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Iwasneverhere)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/im-stuck-for-six-months-on-one-level/27145/9 "2018-02-01T14:56:05Z")
> [@tmahrt](#):
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> So, I’m at 42 lvl now. The problem is that I was on that lvl for half a year and I did reviews every single day.
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> I also spent 6 months on level 42!!! What a coincidence. 🙂
_shudders_
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### Author:  [@trunklayer](https://community.wanikani.com/u/trunklayer)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/im-stuck-for-six-months-on-one-level/27145/10 "2018-02-01T15:01:54Z")
42 is The Answer!
(for me it seems to be 37 though)…
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### Author:  [@tmahrt](https://community.wanikani.com/u/tmahrt)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/im-stuck-for-six-months-on-one-level/27145/11 "2018-02-01T15:02:26Z")
> [@Iwasneverhere](#):
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> shudders
Another level 42er! 🙂
42 may be the answer to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything, but now we know the question to the answer.
At what level do users get stuck at on Wanikani? :crabigator:
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### Author:  [@acm2010](https://community.wanikani.com/u/acm2010)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 10:00pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/im-stuck-for-six-months-on-one-level/27145/12 "2018-02-01T22:00:03Z")
The direct answer is probably that you have more than 10% of the kanji in your current level or a few radicals as leeches and can’t get them to Guru.
Still, it is better to clean up than just adding more stuff on top.
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### Author:  [@Trainer](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Trainer)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 11:57pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/im-stuck-for-six-months-on-one-level/27145/13 "2018-02-01T23:57:34Z")
Are you practicing outside of Wanikani?
I write down all my wrong answers about 10 times each.
If you level up, you’re only giving yourself more items to study.
Instead, don’t worry about leveling and more about accuracy.
I had a look at your wall of shame.
I can only recommend you try a different method that works for you where you can learn your apprentice items in a better way.
Have you tried creating some flashcards? Your Apprentice items is fairly low, you can spend some time reviewing them offline.
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### Author:  [@Scaso](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Scaso)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2018, 12:07am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/im-stuck-for-six-months-on-one-level/27145/14 "2018-02-02T00:07:20Z")
I had the same problem, till i got frustrated and decided to reset. All those leeches weren’t getting any better and my reviews were taking up too much of my time (i had 200 in the morning and another 100 - 200 when i got home from work). Now i’m going through much slower.
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### Author:  [@xyzbuster](https://community.wanikani.com/u/xyzbuster)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2018, 12:11am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/im-stuck-for-six-months-on-one-level/27145/15 "2018-02-02T00:11:22Z")
> [@tmahrt](#):
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> 42 may be the answer to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything, but now we know the question to the answer.
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> At what level do users get stuck at on Wanikani?
Oh no. I just entered a race to reach level 60 and I’m only two weeks away. 😱
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.wanikani.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2019, 12:15am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/im-stuck-for-six-months-on-one-level/27145/16 "2019-02-02T00:15:23Z")
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