Never give up (Level 60)

That’s it, after ~2000 days…

My Level 60 post will be short and sweet. What else can I say but

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Congratulations!!
Must feel so good to have that done after… 2000 days??? Wow… Kudos to you!
おめでとうございます!

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2000 days == 5.47 years.

TBH I expect my pace to be about 5 years, without of course, your last 30 level sprint.

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Congratulations! Well earned cake!

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… I may have misunderstood your message

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:woman_facepalming:

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This is super inspirational. Incredibly tenacious people do wonderful things! おめでとうございます!

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What happened during the almost year-long break?

Doesn’t matter, you still made it. Congrats!

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Congratulations!

How do people pull this chart by the way?

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Honestly it such a long time ago i am not sure to exactly remember :joy:

I had almost 2 different year long breaks…

It was periods of time where motivation for WK was low (in terms of adding new lessons), i also have had 2 kids at those periods …

BUT i never ever stopped doing my reviews, on almost a daily basis… Fear of Falling Behind.

It is funny because around those days, i could have days, and sometimes even a whole week, without any reviews (around Level ~18 when i had burned almost everything), whereas during the past 1.5 years, i have an average of 180 reviews a day :sweat_smile:

Anyway. My initial message was targeted at slow runners, to encourage them to … never give up :wink:

Initially, i used to plan to stop at L30. But arrived there, first i was surprised at how it was eventually possible for me to do a ~9 days per level average, and second, also observed that midway was far from being sufficient to go in the wild reading native materials.

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Thanks for all the congrats !

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How is the cake, btw?

First of all congrats with your accomplishment! Do you capable of reading native materials now? If so, from which level it became much more easier for you? Thank you in advance for your answer :grin:

Congratulations! i’m always super impressed by the people who have the tenacity to stick at this for years and years. sticking at it when speedrunning is easy (for a given value of easy): you see you progress week after week, you feel your progress in the real world. you stay motivated.

but sticking with it for this long, wow! you have my respect!

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Congrats. I’ve had to adjust to a much longer-term goal than I’d originally planned, so this is encouraging to see. It’s so cool that you stuck with it / came back to it even after extended breaks. Thank you for your post. :walking_man:

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I’m trying to come back to WK after… 3 years? I reset to 30 maybe a year ago and then stopped. Wondering if resetting to level 1 would be best for me, and to start the journey all over again. Kudos to those who’ve made it this far!

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I would say no. Start up your reviews again. If you can remember the stuff then great. If you can’t then let them naturally fall to lower levels. If you do a full reset to level 1 you may end up burning yourself out on the early levels.

It’s like restarting a video game halfway through. Repeating old material can burn you out faster than if you took the time to remember where you are. You may be surprised at what you can remember too. Once your reviews get below let’s say 50 a day start adding new lessons back up to 100.

Best of luck to you!

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Much needed post. I was starting to freak out looking at all the people reaching lvl60 within 1.5 years. This gives me some peace.

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What changed after level 32 that allowed you to speed up? Did you do anything differently?