Race to the Cake 🍰

[NathaLire]

SORRY

But yes at least that’s fixed!! Means we can get back to focusing on our reviews and lessons again!

[OmukaiAndi]

i don’t mind one rank down means 1 rank more to rise

[17wings]

I leveled up and now my rank in my group matches my name: #17. I hope to be #13 or so sometime next week, though.

[Bakeguma]

Hi Guys!

I added myself to the The Waiting for Low Levelers to Eat Cake Group. Hope I didn’t mess up anything. Just bought a subscription and feel like I’m one of you already Also since I’m checking WK and the community at least 10 times a day.

Here we goooo!

[OmukaiAndi]

have fun

[riverpuppy]

Welcome to our own personal hell!

[OmukaiAndi]

One step closer to the cake, now in Death again

[Naphthalene]

The last slow level!

[saiakuma]

congrats napth!
you’re so close now

[Sezme]

Are you planning to do the fast levels fast? Well then, I’m preparing to be left decisively in your dust.

[Naphthalene]

@saiakuma @Sezme
Thank you both!

Sezme: if possible, I’d like to do them in 3d12
The 5am-9am-5pm schedule actually fits exactly the down times of my day, so it might be possible.

I really enjoyed those past two levels, too. It’s like it’s Christmas twice a week.

[saiakuma]

I wish i had the motivation to do this properly… i’m so far behind, i’ve got 700 reviews left, (but i reorder so i’ve done all kanji) and i’ve been on this level 43 days so far

[Naphthalene]

Technically, it’s my 4th time learning the joyo kanji (well, there are some non joyo here, but anyway).
At each level, there’s usually only 2~4 kanjis that I would not consider “burned” already. (A lot more of the vocab is new, but it’s fairly easy to learn here)
I wouldn’t say I am doing WK properly, since my lessons usually go skip - skip - skip- … hm そう? Click Yep okay cool - skip - skip - … I actually don’t know, uh click click checks reading and words ok - skip - skip

If you consider the amount of information, I’m basically doing 70 days levels

[Sezme]

I too enjoy the 5-9-5 schedule on those rare occasions that I don’t get delayed earlier in the week. Tomorrow, though, I should be able to manage a 5-9-5 schedule.

But it’s more challenging when you have to complete the previous level and then learn all the kanji for the new level within the hour. But since you know almost all the kanji already, it shouldn’t be too taxing. Bonne chance!

[saiakuma]

oh right ahaha

[Naphthalene]

@Sezme

learn all the kanji for the new level within the hour.

I think I remember @jprspereira (or maybe someone else) mentioning learning the kanji before.
Nothing prevents you from going to the next level’s kanji pages and study them before hand. In particular the day before leveling up, when you don’t have any critical item in the queue…

(That being said, if you don’t have any specific reason to go faster, that’s not necessary either that’s only a month of difference or so?)

[Sezme]

Yes, for the one fast level I did (26?) I learned all the next level kanji the night before. It was stressful. I think that’s when I finally installed the ignore script.

[saiakuma]

That’s a great idea! I never thought of that, but it totally makes sense, and that way when you’re buzzing through the lessons, you’re not also just forgetting the kanji as soon as you look at them… haha

in other news, i’m suprised i haven’t been overtaken… i’ve slacked a bit @Kyasurin is still a couple of levels in front of me, but it doesn’t look great for me…

(I’m an aeroplane!)

(Somehow it hasn’t effected my average time…)

[Ninkastmin]

Sup fast humans, how is it going?

I like this level’s color @Naphthalene

Hmm… I do study kanji before entering an specific level, well, at least i was doing so up to level 40

Anyway, life is demanding my attention again, peace!

[jprspereira]

@Naphthalene

I think I remember @jprspereira (or maybe someone else) mentioning learning the kanji before .

Yup. The good old self-study script together with the self-study hide info script. I’d go to a level’s kanji page, hide meanings/readings, and 2 by 2/3 by 3, I’d repeat meanings and readings to myself. Eventually, I’d have memorized all the kanji. Then, I’d do the quiz for those kanji using the self-study script to check those I wasn’t so sure about. Then review these again. This could take me around 20 to 30 mins to do. Preferably, I’d do this the day before leveling up, so that I’d have a 2nd exposure to them during lessons. The lessons would totally be a breeze though

My point here is… SRS is awesome but nothing like repetition at the beginning to really cement that new content. To me, expecting a SRS interval of 4h to be enough when you’re learning this amount of new info a day wouldn’t work. I had to add that sweet repetition to kanji.