Hey fellow Durtlers, I have a tip for those who might not know about it (sorry if this has been suggested already, I havenât had time to read the whole thread):
If you go into the User menu on the main site (your icon in the upper right corner), and then select Settings > App, among the various settings there is one called Lesson ordering. If you change it to Ascending level then shuffled, I personally think thatâs the âbestâ basic setting (without requiring any plugins/addons) for Durtling the Scenic Route. Hereâs why I think that:
- With the default ordering, âAscending level then subjectâ, youâll get all your radicals first, then all your kanji, and finally all your vocabulary. This puts you âon the clockâ too quickly, IMHO, so that all of your radicals and kanjis will get guruâd too quickly, causing you to advance âtoo quicklyâ or at a âforced paceâ so to speak. Plus it leaves you with a huge pile of vocab at the end.
Blech! - With the raw âShuffledâ setting, youâll not only get your current level items mixed in, but also new items if youâve just leveled up. This can potentially make completely finishing off earlier levels take longer, risking taking on too many new items before youâve finished old ones, which I think is kind of antithetical to durtling the âscenic routeâ. Whatâs the rush?
- With âAscending level then shuffledâ, itâs kind of like the best of both worlds.
- Whenever you advance to a new level, it will automatically keep all your current-level lessons at the front of the queue, so that you donât have to think about âOh, I should finish my current level before moving on to the next levelâ, or having some plugin/addon to handle that for you. Itâs built right into the site as is.
- But also, since it shuffles the lessons for the current level, youâre just as likely to get your already-unlocked vocab lessons before new radicals and kanjis, so that you are steadily working away at the existing pile of vocabs during your progression (unlocking new items) on each level. That way, when you advance to a new level, you donât have such a big pile of vocab waiting for you to finish off: Youâve already done most of them! Yay!
The âpressureâ of a) having all your radicals and kanjis guruâing too quickly 
and b) having a big pile of vocab waiting for you at the end of each level 
, is gone! Instead you can celebrate your successful level 
and move on smoothly to the next one at a gentle pace. 
Anyway, thatâs how Iâve been using WK for a while now, and I really like it. Hope this info is helpful for some of yâall. Cheers! 
[Edited to replace mistaken references to âreviewsâ with the correct âlessonsâ]