Each level usually has around 33-38ish kanji. When you level up, about 25-30 of those kanjis are made available for review immediately. If you work at max speed and do all the kanji ASAP, the remaining 5-8 kanji are up for review in about 4-5 days.
Why is the kanji distribution like this? Why not half the kanji available at the start, and half available when you guru the first set of kanji?
For example, if a level has 34 kanji in it, why isn’t 17 kanji made available for review immediately, allowing for an equal distribution of kanji learning throughout the level.
Genuinely curious about the reasoning behind this decision, not trying to complain.
It’s based on the kanji components you know. Once you reach level 43 or so there are far less components and you can do a lot immediately and get enough kanji to level up in 3.5 days or so if you go max speed which is why they are called the fast levels.
If you look back in your history, you started with way more components.
https://www.wanikani.com/radicals?difficulty=pleasant
https://www.wanikani.com/radicals?difficulty=paradise
It’s not really possibly to feed you exactly half the kanji when the system requires you to learn all sorts of components that you require less and less of as you go and more or less use more and more of the same past learned ones instead of new ones. (Actually this was a really stupid argument by me because they can make it artificially limited, but it wouldn’t actually serve to help anything and would probably just lead to “why is this kanji locked i have all the components let me learn it already” posts instead.
When I did WK with exception of the later levels I always did exactly half immediately and waited with the remaining available until the rest were available because there was no point in doing more yet as I wouldn’t level up anyways.
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