Race to the Cake 🍰

Sezme · July 19, 2018, 2:13pm

What are your impressions of Hell (it’s so rare that one gets to ask that question)?

Naphthalene · July 19, 2018, 2:19pm

Level 31 got me by surprise in the sense that it contained maybe 50% of kanji that I did not know well. So, yeah, suddenly I had to learn new things. It happened at a moment where I was crazy busy, so that was not really welcome…

Now, that observation is 100% subjective, since you have no reason to have the same holes in your knowledge as I do. In particular, if it’s your first time going through the joyo kanji (which is probable), I guess it’s business as usual?

Sezme · July 19, 2018, 2:26pm

Oh yes. At this point (like after the first 10 levels of WK) I’m completely used to not knowing 95% of the kanji. Like on level 28 I already sort of knew 傘 but that was about it. Good luck!

Ninkastmin · July 19, 2018, 5:27pm

I wish any level had at least a kanji i knew well ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I was kinda happy that my years of watching anime made me recognize some romaji words like hayai, takai, koukousei, etc. but these last levels i’ve been in a complete blank, and i fail a lot vocabulary with kun yomi readings, it’s getting hard!

Your level seems to be stuck, you appear as being in level 32
Hope to catch up to you in Hell soon!

Sezme · July 19, 2018, 7:40pm

Yeah, the kunyomi words are getting a bit harder to remember. I have to keep hitting my head against my desk to shake the memory loose.

My level looks stuck on here as well. Still at 28 when it’s really 29. I wonder how often the message boards sync with the main site.

Naphthalene · July 19, 2018, 9:38pm

Oh, indeed. Time to log out and in again.

Well, you are getting a lot more out of WK than I am. These days, I go through lessons by smashing the skip button… (I catch stuff that I don’t actually know thanks to the mini quizz)

Ninkastmin · July 19, 2018, 9:54pm

what’s a skip button?
and a mini quizz?

what’s life?

Naphthalene · July 19, 2018, 10:00pm

Well, the top left button.

I’m posting about it because I took a while to find out about it.

Ninkastmin · July 19, 2018, 10:07pm

oh the one for lessons, of course
never used it before i almost forgot it exists.

what about the miniquizz? is it an userscript?

jprspereira · July 19, 2018, 10:11pm

Did you forget that you get to answer to the items you just learned after viewing them? That’s the so called mini quiz.

jprspereira · July 19, 2018, 10:11pm

STOP BEING SO AWESOME OMGAAAD.

Ninkastmin · July 19, 2018, 10:12pm

i was also today years old when i found out that’s how to solve it

Sezme · July 20, 2018, 1:41am

But what if I forget my password?
#constantfear

ETA: OK I made it out the other side intact.

Sezme · July 26, 2018, 10:32am

Now entering the last days of death. Hell awaits. I can almost smell the sulphur.

Toba · July 26, 2018, 11:02am

@ploopy1000 hehe now I also got you. now I just have to beat ME !

1000 · July 26, 2018, 6:48pm

AHHHHHHHHHH WHAT
THIS DIDN’T GO ACCORDING TO PLAN

Freaking%20Out%20Gif%20AN

Toba · July 26, 2018, 8:34pm

but you have a very realistic chance to get me again >.< my thesis gets now into the hot phase so I’ll do now 5 - 10 new items day and not 20 anymore ^^ until this mot… thing… is done

1000 · July 27, 2018, 5:20am

Good luck and work hard on your thesis!! You have my full support!!!

I’m going to level up before the end of July provided I don’t make any stupid mistakes or get lazy, so I’m gonna get you… muhuhahaha.

Tyger · July 27, 2018, 11:27am

So, a question for the 7-day levelers (in case any of you reads this).
What do you do when you screwed up the time-schedule? This morning, I should have reviewed the second batch of kanji at about 8 am (the third review), so as to level up on Sunday morning at 7 or 8 am. But an unfortunate event occured and I only reviewed them at 12. So, now I‘ll level up on Sunday at 11 am and if I immediately do the new radical lessons, I have to stay up until 11 pm, which is more or less doable for me. But then, I guru the radical on Wednesday night at 9 pm, which definitely too late to do new kanji lessons.
Sunday is just perfect for me to level up, because my daily schedule is different and I have time to do the radical lessons.
What do you do in such a case? Bite the apple, review at 1 am on Thursday which would fix the problem? Lose a day, start a Monday-level-up schedule? Lose a week, restart next Sunday? Or did this never happen to you and I‘m the only one stupid enough to mess up like this? I‘m still quite new to 7-day levels (I‘ve done it for about 3-4 levels now), but I tremendously like it, it keeps me motivated.

Naphthalene · July 27, 2018, 12:07pm

That happened to me before, and I did bite the bullet and reviewed at 1am…
I used the reorder script to just focus on those kanjis and ignore everything else (which waited happily until the morning). The main problem was that it was really hard for me to focus, so I was extra careful, triple checking what I typed before pressing enter
Good luck!