I am in no way critical of @adeyura. Sorry if this came across as such. And obviously, the OP has been very consistent with other materials as well, so I‘m sure he‘s doing great.
Again I am in awe at his success but wanted to remind others that going slow is fine. sometimes there’s a game-like attitude on WK, where levelling up is more important than content and I hate seeing people burn out after all their hard work. Happened to me with Remembering the Kanji.
Due to the fact that I don’t use any other tools to learn kanji, I can confidently say WK helps me a lot to consume other materials to study (textbook etc).
Thank you for your answer !
You did a very good job !
This is really impressive, what website are the heatmaps from i’ve only ever seen the ones from the first few pics?
Congratulations! I tried going quick (about 8 days per level) and i felt it was prettyyyyy fast for me, i cant imagine completing in 6 days.
Also have fun and good luck starting life in Japan! You’re definitely living my dream 
Wow! That’s quite a feat and incredible dedication.
I was wondering, where do you get that graph from? It looks like a neat infographic.
Congrats! We reached lvl 60 on the same day! Yayy!
Although I started on 04-02 (and then left it for a week on lvl 2 :D) so you beat me as well.
Good luck with your job in Japan!
Congrats to you too! 
Wow. I’ll be happy if I finish it in two years. lol
Wow, Wanikani is getting speedruns now? That was insanely fast.
Is there an award for slowest though? I’ve been using Wanikani on and off for years and years and I’m still on lvl 33 
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@adeyura Do you have any tips to share re:vocabulary retention and keeping accuracy high? I know vocab doesn’t impact leveling up, but it definitely impacts time investment. A related question would be how much time would you say you spent per day on WK, and how often did you find yourself having to do reviews?
Sorry if I missed your answers to these questions in the thread.
Not the original poster, but I have a few pieces of advice on things that help me.
I’ve found making a small story about why one of those is more important than the other sticks much more strongly in my memory. For that example, in my mind it’s Worf explaining why honor is simply more important than even their family’s good name.
4. For kanji with more than one pronunciation, try to use a consistent mnemonic to remind you which pronunciation it is. For example with 人, whenever it’s the にん pronunciation, I use ninja in the mnemonic.
Hmm, I don’t have particular tips for this.
Maybe it’s pretty cliche and obvious, try to learn vocab not long after you guru-ed kanji. Besides it helps you to retain kanji while doing vocab, your memory for each new kanji is still fresh, therefore it makes recalling the vocab mnemonic better.
Context sentences are also really important, don’t skip it!
The time I spent per day on WK is really fragmented, I suppose it’s about 2-3(?) hours per day for doing reviews and lessons. I always left WK tab open; if I see some reviews are ready, I’ll try to clear it right away.
I’m always impressed at anyone who puts such efforts and worships the almighty wanikani-sama to the extent such as this. Holy moly, reaching 60 in less than a year is a serious business…
I congratulate you from the bottom of my heart. And do not forget that to-be-burned piles are waiting for you. But I doubt it will hinder your work since you have been already committed to WK this much. It will be an easy task for you to do so.
While me finally got out of mountains of burned item piles, like 1500++ items these last 2 weeks… I’ve been working so hard to burn deym reviews to ashes I feel like my eyes burning too! Finally I can see my reviews back to no more than two digits! Hurray for two digits review - -)/
First of all, congrats on 60! I started almost two years ago now, but am on track to join you at 60 just after that mark. I have a question regarding your scripts.
What exactly do you mean that you use ignore scripts if you know you can’t make 90% for leveling up?
Congrats!
Mind if I ask what kind of job you’ll be doing in Japan and how much Japanese you’ll be using during working hours?
It might help with everyone’s motivation to study.
Sorry for the late reply, it’s been really busy this week. I also decided to slow down my WaniKani pace. 
Let me give you an example.
I have 30 kanji on a level. Let say all kanji at this level already at Apprentice 4.
For the next review, I need to make at least 90% of them to Guru (no more than 3 errors) so that I can level up at that time, right?
If during my review I’ve made 3 errors, and the next item I answered incorrectly, I will ignore it.
Some might say it’s abusing the script, but the kanji at this level will eventually return to Apprentice in the future review if you don’t really remember it. (Never ignore the wrong answer from this point)
Software engineer, but I’m on training period about the company culture and stuffs right now. Not sure how much Japanese I’ll be using in the future, but for this week during training, I used 50:50 Japanese and English to communicate with others.
I’m far from fluent and still making a lot of mistakes when speaking Japanese. But I’m glad my senior and coworker can understand what my points are lol. Some of them also wanted to improve their English speaking ability, so sometimes we also communicated using English. 
NB: Actually, when I applied for this job, they didn’t ask me Japanese language abilities at all. But I think everything would be easier and I can experience life in Japan better if I know the local language, so I’m learning Japanese until now.
Congratulations
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