Wait. You’re… Burning the level 1-3 items before going to level four? You do realize that it’s three months from enlightened to burned, right?
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I’d say how busy the rest of your life is matters a lot. Some of us have other studies and/or work to do most of the time, and it is hard to fully concentrate on the lessons and reviews.
I get around 80% most of the time and I think it is great because I cram my reviews in between studying college stuff and commuting.
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I’m so glad to read this thread. I get excited if I get 100% but I’m usually between 75-80, and I was thinking there was something wrong with me.
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Just do your best. It doesn’t matter what anyone else is doing. If you always try to get the best possible score, nothing else really matters.
Some people here get above 90 percent in their reviews but it makes absolutely no difference to you whatsoever. Don’t get disheartened or discouraged.
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I hang out around 90%. There are some I have problems with, but that just means I personally have to take more time reviewing them outside of WK.
We’re going to be doing this for quite a while.
I do lessons so that the first review is done before I go to bed. Wake up, do what ever reviews have built up, then take a gander at the ones I learned the night before. If I have time during the day I look at what is in the problem list and do a read through.
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I have been getting 90% on most of my reviews except the very first one for new items (4 hours after learning). To be fair, I reset from level 24 or so to level 16 after about 3 years away from wanikani, because I had thousands of reviews and couldn’t remember anything, so I wanted to relearn the more recent ones from scratch. So I’ve been relearning old knowledge.
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I’m usually somewhere in the 80%-90% range. I’d do better if I’d stop mispelling obvious words like 英語（えいご）I’ve known for years, or mixing up the “to reflect” with “to be reflected” pairs.
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I often get high 90s if the review batch is large enough, and I’m familiar with the readings/vocab in question. I usually spend quite a bit of time on lessons, trying to find associations for readings. Reading mnemonics are usually not very helpful for me, so I look for vocabs that I heard in anime or know from somewhere else. Like it’s kinda hard to remember that 線 is “sen”, but if you remember it’s part of Shinkansen, it’s trivial.
My worst results are usually when I din’t pay much attention during the lessons (eg was tired or drunk) and then get early reviews for those items. Then I have to re-learn them in a sense, and it goes better next time.
Then again, I’m still on low levels, and stuff is not that obscure right now, so I expect my results to get worse with time. ^^
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It’s been all over the place, the average is 12 days, but I’ve been 30 days at level 12.
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My average is 88.16% (64,813 reviews, made level 14 last night), which I’m happy enough with.
I only get upset if I drop below 66%. I read on these forums somewhere that 66% is the cut-off point between making progress and actually going backwards. My my maths is even worse than my appalling Japanese, so I have no idea if that is correct or not!
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I range from 80-100% I get disappointed if I get below 80%, so I self-study the ones I get wrong to make sure I get them right next time.
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From other posts, it sounds like they have been waiting for the lifetime discount for a while.
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It’s just that I don’t have any money, being unemployed and all. I really do need to get a part-time job at some point during high school, but I can’t handle it at the moment. Over the summer is probably when I’ll get around to it, but until then I can at least wait for literally over 2 days to get a single review like last week lol
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I usually aim for 90%+ put i do often drop into the 80s (and rarely even in the 70s and sometimes even lower with 1-4 item reviews…). IMO everything over 60% shouldn’t be a problem though 'cause then you are still getting a significant amount more right than you are getting wrong.
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90% is usually a great day for me and those are rare. I generally shoot for 80-85%, but 75% comes on a regular enough basis. Those day’s I just keep grinding and hope the next day is better.
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Personally, I’m always in the 90-100% range. Sometimes lower, but very rarely. I don’t cheat on vocab ever, but on kanji I only cheat on the very first wave of kanji (3-4 hours after I learned them). I don’t see the point of not cheating on those because if I mess it up the first time I know that I will get it the second time.
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This is what I used to do to get the stats up (I didn’t do it just for the stats, though). Judge for yourselves if it is cheating. Once I have leveled up and and done all the kanji lessons (with a reordering script), I used to mouse over all the new kanji in the dashboard (showing popups of meaning and reading… I don’t know if it works like this today) from left to right until I got them all right. Letting the SRS do its thing is all fine. But a little rote memorization in the very beginning goes a long way.
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Remember your percentage depends on how many items you are tested on, and it’s not going to be same every time. Imagine that you reviewed 30 items and missed three. That would be 90%. Now imagine these same 30 items, but in three reviews of ten. What if the three you miss are all in the same set of reviews? You would have 100%, 100% and 70%. Mathematically the results are the same. But I can bet that you would beat yourself up more seeing the 70% than when you see the 90%, even though there is no difference in your performance.
A percentage score when the number of items is not consistent is not a good indicator of how you are doing.
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I fucking hate those (Well, not the last one, that is ok for me), they are worded so weirdly to me, that I jsut can never get them that consistently… and is awfully frustating, cause I get the gist of the meaning, but it’s just the wording that’s weird. And I don’t know any synonym to make my life easier really, like I don’t think the answers are bad or anything, but they are just hard
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For 当たる, since it’s “to be on target” I use the たる to help me remember it since it sounds like “target”. It’s just one of those ones where the Wanikani mnemonic just doesn’t really work for me.
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