what it does ?
Always a little intimidating to see warnings from people just a couple levels ahead of meā¦ 
Fwiw if youāre having trouble getting things to stick I think that the self-study script ([Userscript] Self-Study Quiz) is pretty great for getting extra practice. Also for me at least reading things (e.g. on NHK Easy) and seeing the kanji used in actual writing helps memorization a lot
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May I ask how you cope with the review-wall that builds up so quickly? If I don`t open WK for a day, I find myself with 200 reviews which may take over an hour to clear and frankly, I lose concentration and motivation. Sorry if this is the wrong thread for the question, but I identify with your situation because I too work a lot for uni and so donāt find the time every day. So yeah, what do you do about the massive review-wall?
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Well I started 5 days after you and I just reached level 8ā¦
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yes, there is no better way to learn kanji than actually read them in a real life scenario. i plan to start native material reading very soon, maybe after level ten and after i finish japanese from zero 3 (and Genki 1)
oh donāt tell me. is 8 in the morning to me and wanikani greeted me with a pile of 150 reviews. there is no trick other than consistency. as i said above i have no work nor iām studying, as such i have tons of free time to do reviews. now while this gave me a tons of problem in my real life i guess it helps with learning a language
btw la pasta Ć© buonissima
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donāt worry about it. you arenā t going slow at all. i just have tons of free time. when i said that i am not proceeding particularly fast i was comparing to my self, my free time and my overall feeling, not other people. i have no idea how fast other people are proceeding. sorry if i sounded arrogant by saying that or if you felt discouraged by it
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I dont quite get it xD Do the symbols imitate Kanji? āTop of the mountainā? 
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Actually when I started I had no idea about how the SRS system worked. I would do reviews when I wanted to and liked to do lessons more than reviews. When I read about how it works (SRS system) the time I spent on a level decreased. First it was 1 month and some 30 days 
, then it reduced to 20 days after I started doing my reviews when they were available, then 12 days when I actually implemented what @jprspereira had said here.
Oh no, I didnāt mean it like that. I just felt like saying it. I am sorry if I sounded rude. 
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Hi 
I think you a pretty fastā¦ I started in November I think and I am Lvl 9. So you are doing well.
That said: Same here! I was doing so well and then Lvl 8 hit me. I was like āoofā. But now Lvl 9 feels better already. So I think we just have to adapt and keep going.
Have a nice day! 
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Can I add you in my leaderboard?
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tbh level 8 hit me pretty hard too, and is weird because it has a low amount of kanji
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not at all, we ar cool then 
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I just googled what a leaderboard on WK is 
Sure you can
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i remember how perplexed i was, because they just look so out of place
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I am amazed too. Also this communitiy is so wholesome. Esp in times like these, it rly warms my heart 
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I feel you! I spent 46 days in level 9 alone (so far my overall average is ~14 days based on WK stats) mostly due to crying from overwork before my long-awaited freedom resignation last January.
And good luck sticking to your current speed! It definitely requires commitment! Fighting!
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thankyou å
č¼© letās do our best 
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i canā t wait till iā ll be a level 60 too, i will remain in this forum reminiscing about the good olā time when kanji were hard. 
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The number of reviews you get it based on the number of lessons you do.
The best advice I got was to do the same number of lessons each day, however many that is (I do 15) and do the reviews every day (3 times a day: breakfast, lunch & sometime in the evening for me).
The longer you leave reviews, the more they pile up. The more lessons you do, the faster they pile up.
I end up with 3, 50 item reviews a day:
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