Here’s mine 
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This is awesome! Thank you for this post. I only do about 5-10 lessons a day because I work 7 days a week between both my jobs. Just getting some lessons in every morning takes a lot of energy but I keep telling myself that’s still progress!!
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Thank you for your post 
I thought I was the only one trudging along 
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I also really appreciate you sharing being a fellow slow durt!! Congrats on your kid!
Thought I could finish Wanikani in a year when I first started 
Life happens though… Fall seven times and get up eight! (heard this is a Japanese idiom but not sure)
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My sincere congratulations. And thank you for sharing, makes me a bit happier slow creature! 
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wtf this inspired me, i took a long ass 275 days on my current level. I saw posts like ppl finishing for 1 year and i felt horrible, I’m only 14 and my mother pays my subscription thingy here so i feel bad, I want to go back to my pace when I started once I reached 20 and take my lessons and reviews more seriously than what I did before, I know it’ll all be okay as long as i continue, this inspired me, rlly, thank you
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1380 days later and I’m about a month from getting to the end too…
I took breaks of 506 days, 47 days, 148 days, 48 days and 157 days LOL in between all that. I’m currently clearing up the 4000 reviews that piled up during my last break haha
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Didn’t study for 3 years after starting university. That stuff is stressful.
Writing my bachelor project now and doing Japanese on the side. Hope to get to 30 before summer vacation
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That is so encouraging! I’m also taking my time - level up about every month, so I still have a loooong way to go. But that pace is just right for me and to see that someone else got to the end going slow is really motivating
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Gold member in 2235 days. I though it must be a record. Did a search and found this thread. You’re the champ, quadban.
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14! This is awesome. I‘m so proud of you for doing this. To have a passion for something like this at your age is wonderful. Get going!
I‘m 60 and I have a 10 yo and 3 yo son, so I know both ends of the spectrum.
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I’m definitely on pace for something similar.
Started in July 2016, did first 3 chapters. Bought the lifetime sub that December, started over.
Got to level 17 and then quit until January 1, 2018.
Reset my account to level 1, got up to level 30 and then stopped until January 1, 2019.
Reset my account to level 10, currently on level 24.
My goal right now is to get to level 40 before the end of the year. In 2020 I’ll probably reset my account to level 15 or level 20 and try to get to 50.
At this rate I won’t get to level 60 until the end of 2021.
Congrats @snorenose! That’s pretty darn close. I remember reading a while back that you’d been chipping away and were almost there (level 54, https://community.wanikani.com/t/slow-parent-being-slow/34266/7 ). Glad to see you were able to make it.
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七転び八起き
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Thanks for finding!!
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I’m late at this point, but congrats!
I have my own story I was considering posting but it probably works better as a shorter reply here. Especially since I’m on mobile and wkstats doesn’t want to accept my api key.
I started wanikani in 2012 or 2013 during college, as I was taking some Japanese courses. Unchecked depression and bipolarity meant my progress waxed and waned. Eventually it stopped completely and I wallowed for a long while.
After 2 years of doing fuck-all and another 2 years getting my act together, I restarted WK. Things were going well, and getting past my previous highest level felt amazing. Then I again slowed to a crawl and felt unmotivated.
It’s been tough, but I am determined to not lose my progress again. For the past couple months I hadn’t touched lessons. They felt like a wall. I just checked in a couple times a week to pare down my review numbers and work on some leeches. Then, yesterday, I finally bit a chunk out of my 100+ lessons and it felt great. All of the kanji reviews made a majority of these vocab lessons easy.
I’m so happy to finally dive back in. I’m really proud of myself for not fully disengaging again. Sometimes it feels silly to feel good about my relatively low WK level, but as this thread is a testament to, progress is progress and we should celebrate it.
I know that WK will only get harder, but I believe the most difficult barriers to tackle are the ones we place on ourselves. If we can break through those then progress will come with time.
Congrats again, and best of luck and dedication to all still on the journey.
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@anon56844372 solved @jprspereira’s problem and created My Journey of ∞ Days
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Where do you get these stats reports from…:o
Have you tried https://wkstats.com:10001
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Nice… Never knew about this… Tried it jus now. (
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