Im actually exactly like you. A good day for me is when I land above 90%. I feel like being honest and getting 80% or 70% will be better in the long run, because it will force you to retain the information
I usually strive for 100% to be completely honest. However, my stats from wkstats.com show that my average is around 94-95% so anything above that makes me happy.
Usually, my reviews are closer to 90% than 95% and I feel disappointed if I get less than 85-90% on any review session. Iâm not taking things super fast and for that reason, I feel that I should be getting 90+ consistently. My average level up speed right now is around 7 days 15 hours but I feel that because the first few levels I went fast, my true average will settle down somewhere between 8-9 days. My apprentice pile is usually 70-110 and I went once all the way up to 180 and my accuracy was still %85+. Keep in mind that was mostly vocab and with vocab youâve already guruâd the Kanji readings so you should be comfortable with the majority of combo words since they use the onyomi readings.
However, to be honest, as long as itâs not Kanji then I donât care about accuracy. Sure knowing the vocab is important but WK isnât for that and the radicals I couldnât care less about to be honest. Like ć˛ is melody but the radical will only accept music. So if I input music and get marked wrong, I wouldnât even think twice about it because I knew what it was.
I could be wrong and people are different in that regards, but 60% does sound low. My subjective opinion is that you should not be getting (apart from the occasional short review session) less than 75% and that is if youâre going really fast.
Edit: I should have mentioned this but I do use the phone app which allows some leniency with errors (I use it very carefully). My experience is the same however on Desktop when I donât have access to that option.
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I used to nail reviews all the time with almost no mistakes, but that is certainly not the case anymore.
My typical review session nowadays ranges from 60-85% on average. Just gotta keep pushing ahead!
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You stole my avatar. Give it back! 
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And for additional context from what Kieroni was saying⌠Level 1 still hasnât come up for burning for me yet and Iâm about to transition into Level 18.
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I want to add that doing the vocabulary in time and before you hit the next level kanji greatly increases your recall for the past level kanji and therefore your overall accuracy. Whenever my lesson pile is high, my accuracy tends to drop a little bit.
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Are you guys talking about the âReviews Summaryâ or the number shown while you do your reviews?
I would add careful/extensive studying as an answer. something like that.
I very often make my own mnemonics for items, sometimes multiple ones. Often i spend a lot of time in lessons, especially for radicals and kanji, to make sure i remember them.
When i get a review wrong, i donât just say âoh, right.â and move on, because that means i could just as well make the same mistake next time.
I take a good look at the item, reinforce the mnemonic or make another one, see what items i mixed it up with and think up a rule for differentiating the item and not making the mistake again (which can be a mnemonic).
I also try to do vocab lessons early, as they reinforce the kanji.
That being said, as others mentioned, accuracy isnât the most important thing, as long as youâre always doing your reviews, youâll get there in the end.
Donât worry, do reviews 
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I am level 19 (though my icon says 18âŚ) and I have yet to face the first wave of enlightened items (I have nearly 1800 on that level) and I FEAR it so much XDDD
I hope I will reach level 20 by then and then just slow down a lot until the first wave is over⌠but 20 is my current aim and luckily level 19 is not as bad as level 16, 17 and 18 in my opinion. I think the kanji are much nicer again and my accuracy is now around 90% again instead of 75%. I feel like some kanji are just more my thing and some are just⌠garbage XD
Weird is that my stats are actually much nicer than I had expected⌠I think in the end the big picture is important, not only the individual reviews.
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Iâm usually in the 90-95% range, I think! But naturally I have bad days when I get 70-80 something. Iâve had 60% days a few times during my Wanikani run. My current high scores have a little bit to do with the fact that Iâm not learning anything new until I reach level 39 due to leveling down. I think Iâll soon hit the levels where all my forgotten stuff was, so Iâm getting ready for a little lower percentage 
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Itâs really not that important what percentage you get, whether its 100%, 80%, 50% or even 10%! What matters is that you just keep at it. Setting goals is a surefire way to set yourself up for disappointment. Thinking in terms of âfailureâ and âsuccessâ is the root of all frustration because people donât often recognise that failure is success and success is failure; you canât have one without the other, and when you truly understand this, you donât need either!
Just study your lessons, do your reviews and enjoy the process itself. Donât let âprogressâ get in the way of the learning itself. Become the learning yourself, become the process and you will have no more need for motivation! Be the success, be the failure and you will be neither.
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shocked how people are discussing being in the 90s!! 
I feel good reaching 70, but I suppose thatâs what its about, just gotta keep going
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Ahhh, okay. I was worried that you thought this was the right way of keeping your workload down. XD
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Iâm usually 85+%
Iâd probably be way higher if not for phone typos lol.
Donât worry if youâre getting stuff wrong though. Thatâs kinda the point.
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Log out of WK (page and forum) and log back in. Your level will refresh.
Iâm usually around 90-94%. If I see myself below 88% around the middle of the reviews, I try to focus. It usually works and I increase it before the end of the reviews.
Although: there are some scenarios that have been not discussed. No all review âcyclesâ are the same:
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When you level up, you will get things wrong. Achieving 90% in the first review is hard
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When you see things from 10 levels ago, even a âgatsu vs getsuâ will screw your numbers.
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Usually I like to get my number to 90%~ (at the top right?) as a normal occurence.
When dealing with a mountain of newly learned vocabulary this can drop to absolutely anything (usually the start of a new level), and is not worth worrying about. Thatâs the system working as intended. Just keep going!
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I usually score higher when i got few items for review. When they add up to a 100+ items, i usally get stressed out and perform worse.
Do anyone else feel this way?
Also, when i do reviews on the bus to work i do worse, because i do a lot more typos on the phone vs. computer at home.
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This is normal. Fatigue sets in. You just want to reach the ending. Donât be afraid to hit the â10 more buttonâ then come back in 20 minutes or anything. Times of day matter for memory recall. After waking up from sleep or a nap, whether youâve just eaten, whether your brain is getting enough oxygen. Tons of little variables. Iâm usually sitting with 200+ per day at the moment because I want to push harder, but even I have days where I canât be bothered finishing them or doing them at all.
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Average around 80%+
Not that concerned about it. Most tests are like at 5 or 6am and Iâm barely awake for those. Missed burned items can be embarrassing though. Like I got ânoonâ wrong the other day.
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Iâm actually the opposite. I think itâs much easier to get the things right when they are in Apprentice. But of course this is when I do my reviews roughly at SRS intervals. I guess I rely too much on my short term memoryâŚ
Eh, back in the day I was memorizing half the course material in a few days just before the final exam⌠Note that I donât recommend this! Iâd always forget those things right after the exam is done.
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