I think a level a week is pretty ambitious- unless you do nothing else! I just finished level 4 and started in mid June- it’s now mid-September, so that ‘s three months for 4 levels or about 3 weeks a level.
Here I am again for the millionth time, wondering if I’ll stick to it this time 
There have been a few times where I started from scratch - particularly when the LAST time I tried, I got past level 10. But as my little avatar will tell you, I only got to level 6 most recently. Soooo I’ve started banging out the reviews. Actually got through the >600 reviews in a day and have been working on those that I’m forgetting.
My question isssss, I have 15 lessons to go through. At what point in my reviewing should I learn those? Should I wait until I’ve gotten through all the vocab/kanji I’ve forgotten during my (very long) hiatus from WK? Or should I get through them now?
Let me know what y’all think and helloooo again <3
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Welcome back~ 
Depends on what workload you’re comfortable with. Do you feel like you’re keeping up with reviews? How many items do you have in apprentice and guru? The advice I see thrown around is to keep apprentice around 100 for a gentle pace. You’ll also get an idea of the workload by looking at the reviews forecast.
I would treat the forgotten reviews as lessons you’ve recently added. The fail rate is going to be high at first which gives a bigger bump of reviews coming back until they’ve gone to guru stage.
If you feel like the workload is overwhelming, I wouldn’t do new lessons yet. If you find it manageable, then by all means go ahead. If it gets overwhelming again at any point, hold off adding new lessons until you can clear your pile of reviews comfortably again on a daily basis.
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This is great advice, thank you! 
I’ll wait until I get apprentice down to about 100. Thanks again!!
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Sorry I came back to wanikani after 1000 years
I forget what the buttons mean
What’s the clock thing and check mark for when doing reviews?
The clock is wrap-up, it automatically finishes the review once you’ve completed 10 more items after clicking it.
The checkmark is the recently completed items, a list of the reviews you’ve already finished, so you can take another look.
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I’ve come to this thread primarily to ask how to do what you’ve done in your post -
writing Kanji with Furigana. How are people doing that? Do you guys just remember the Ruby syntax for it or is there an option on Wanikani forums to do it automatically? Or is it a user script/browser extension?
I use this browser script for the forums
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At first, I did just use/memorize the Ruby format, but I eventually switched to above userscript.
FYI, it’s not that bad once you start to remember it.
<ruby lang='ja-JP'>開<rp>[<rp><rt>ひら</rt><rp>]</rp></ruby>く
The above results with the following:
開く
The lang part is usually optional, but I try to include it when I remember so that it always renders properly. And you can choose what kind of braces you want it to use when it’s rendered inline (i.e., the above would render like 開[ひら]く when it doesn’t render it as text above)
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I use <ruby>開<rt>ひら</rt></ruby>く which turns into => 開く. With this you just have to remember ruby and rt.
(Usually I just copy paste from yomitan and the furigana format will copy as well. Sometimes the ruby tag at the beginning doesn’t copy and I have to add it manually)
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what is the best way to do this so i don’t have 100 reviews to go through daily, should i just reduce the amount of lessons?
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Yup! It might take some time (days/weeks) before the reviews dwindles down, but sooner or later you’ll get less reviews. See this:
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How many total items are there on wanikani?
I tried to search for it but cant seem to find the answer.
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wkstats says 9233 total 
486 radicals
2080 kanji
6667 vocabulary
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There’s also a WK profile page (not the forum profile) with your overall progress and the total vocabulary count: https://www.wanikani.com/users/nemuitanuki
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I haven’t used WaniKani in over a year but I’m back because I have a question about how a word was pronounced in an anime and I didn’t know where to ask.
Would this forum be an appropriate place to ask? I can probably get a 5 second audio file of the relevant sentence and explain the part that confused me.
Thank you!
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The most typical place to ask that kind of question would be this thread 
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Again sorry. Cant find the right words to search for myself.
What are the srs spacings for guru, master, etc
For example guru 1 to guru 2 is 4 hours
Master to enlightened is 2 weeks
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I have a question about whether i should get wanikani because im doing remembering the kanji by james hesig rn and im already at like 1200 kanji. What should i do, should i do both or stick to one?