Level 21 before 2021!

You can obviously calculate it by hand, by using the remaining days of the year and your average level up time, but to save yourself time and to be able to play around with different values visit https://www.wkstats.com/. You have to enter your API Version 1 Key, which you can find here: WaniKani — Log in (bottom of the page). On WK stats go to progress and projections and enter a hypothetical level up speed. You can then see when you will reach which level (by moving the level bar on the left). Also, if you want to have some stats on your dashboard, consider installing [Userscript] Wanikani Heatmap. It’s pretty neat, if you like to keep track of your overall progress.
Edit: Pro Tip - if you log out and in of the community, WK correctly displays your current level. Now you’re still sitiing a lvl 6.

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I tried everything you said and got errors every step. :frowning:

1- Still says I’m 6 here so I checked to make sure I’m not crazy, and I’m not, I’m on level 7. EDIT: Oh! It worked!

2- I did a reset so wkstats isn’t working at all, its factoring in all the time I sat and did nothing for months and won’t let me just start fresh from zero.

3- Installed heatmap, looks pretty cool. I’ve done 58,000 reviews over my 2 resets and now. Sigh. I will not get overwhelmed this time~

I’m not even sure I could do it by hand since I don’t know my “true” level up avg time, this go around. It’s a shame I can’t flush that stuff or cut it off at a certain start date. Seems I have no real way to forecast at all.

Thanks for the suggestions though!

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  1. Y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶l̶e̶v̶e̶l̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶m̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶w̶ ̶7̶,̶ ̶s̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶k̶e̶d̶ Edit: You got a profile picture now, nice!
  2. I have heard that WK stats still takes reset time into account, but that shouldn’t be of any concern when using the hypothetical projection feature. You simply have to know how many days it usually takes you, and when you scroll down even further on WK stats, you’ll find your level duration. Just look at your level progress since the last reset and then you can calculate a rough average. Alternatively, here is your average so far: For lvl 1 to 7 you needed 7,5 days on average (45 days in total - 6 lvls completed).

Another option is going up to the first post and clicking on the link in the PS right before the chart. You can enter your information into the spreadsheet and play with the numbers some to see different results.

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Got my reviews down to under 200 a day now. A few more days of reviews and I’ll be ready for lessons again. Accuracy was a painful 10-20% for a while there lmao.

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You made it back! The low accuracy is fine, that’s what SRS is made for.

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Zooming down the interstate of level 6. Now on my way to deadly 7 :grimacing:

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Level 9 for me! :tada:

I’m starting to see my accuracy drop a bit but I’m hoping that’s just because of how busy work has been lately. Got a three-day weekend coming up so fingers crossed that will reset my focus.

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Congrats, both of you!

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And level 10 it is! Last of the pleasant series… I realized Marifly that you want all of us to reach Death zone by the end of the year!

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Yay! Congrats to you too!

Yes! I’m sending all of you to your death :wink: Hopefully we’ll all meet in Paradise and Reality later in 2021…

I hope to start a thread towards the end of the year called “Level 60 in 2021”. It’s so much more fun to work together towards a goal than to do it on your own!

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Level 60 by 2022/1/1 sounds indeed possible if we’re nearing level 25-30 this year. I’m more having this target for my 2nd year anniversary in 4/2022 but then would need few more months to burn it all :slight_smile:

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Just leveled up to lvl 8!
I’ve been slowing down because work got crazy and suddenly I’ve got 122 lessons to do :scream:

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I signed up for Japanese lessons at the university language centre :slight_smile: The course is starting in September, it’s 2,5 hrs/week. The pace will be quite slow, I guess, but at least it’ll get me talking more (right now: no talking and and pronunciation that I’m sure is horrible) and writing and I’ll be able to ask questions about whatever I want. And meet likeminded people. So it’ll be fun, I hope :slight_smile:

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Yay! Level-up is ways fun! But this

is not so fun. Seeing the 0 lessons / 0 reviews eventually is a great reward though!

Sounds like fun! And getting to know other learners in your area should be fun too! Will you use Genki?

I don’t think so. The course material is the teacher’s own syllabus, but I don’t know what it’s based on. I’ve got the kanji/reading part covered, I think, so I’m looking forward to speaking/casual conversation. I went to an open class day last year and it was pretty good. The teacher was trying really hard to engage everyone and there were lots of speaking opportunities, even though the pace was slow (lowest common denominator…) he was adjusting his questions and style to the student. Some were obviously putting in more effort than others :slight_smile:

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I have really tried to make it to 0 lessons / 0 reviews every level until now. Seems safe to say that I won’t make it this time…

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Before level 11, my usual pattern was to go through the radicals and the first wave of kanji as fast as I could (20 lessons or so per day) and get to 0 lessons / 0 reviews before the second wave of kanji was unlocked. This time I tried to slow down and do fewer lessons, but all I got was a pile of lessons at the end. On level 12 I have to try to do more vocab early on and spread the kanji out more so that I can get to 0/0 before the end of the level. Another lesson learned!

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I mostly use a real keyboard, but in the rare cases when I do reviews on my phone I found it helps if after typing the answer, I don’t press enter on the virtual keyboard, but press the arrow thingy on the input box, thereby forcing myself to actually look at what I typed, thus giving me the possibility to fix any typos before submitting :slight_smile:

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I’d like to join this challenge!

I’m currently level 13, so I think it’s a realistic goal. It’s taken me one full year to get to level 13 (I joined June 2019). Some people will be able to go faster than that… I personally had several slumps where I let my reviews pile up to something that seemed unsurmountable. Getting through levels 8-10 was a real struggle for me, but it’s gotten better since I resolved to do my reviews more frequently.

I’d like to push myself to go a bit faster, because WaniKani has helped me in my classes so much when I learn the mnemonics on here first. Kanji was my achilles heel and singlehandedly lowered my grade in Japanese classes, but it makes so much more sense to me thanks to this software!

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Yes! Do This!! I regret not slowing down a little and now I have about 200 reviews in the bank. I am going to try and chip away at them (radicals are pretty easy) but not sure how long it will take.
also just hit level 13!

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