It can be brutal. The important thing is to brush off and pick yourself up again. Ganbare!
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Yes, other ābasicā users have been able to add themselves too. I think something may have changed in the forum rules.
Welcome to the race! Glad to have you!
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Level 6 baby!!! Just started using Bunpro as well. Really appreciate all the fantastic advice and encouragement here 
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Update #2 , the expedition in Purgatory continues:
I managed to do ~50 lessons per day this week.
I also entered the Death levels, so Purgatory seems to fit nicely 
Putting the number of Apprentice items aside, Iām starting to get some reviews too (because of Guru filling up again). So this week may be the hardest. And it already felt like I was doing consecutive fast levelsā¦
But I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I also noticed an incredible improvement in my ability to read/guess the context sentences so my morale is high (I wasnāt expecting anything before level ~40)
Planning to ram through the remaining 420 lessons this week.
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Holy shit. Thatās a lot of Lessons.
You used the reorganization script to level up faster but didnāt really do vocab lesson ?
Itās pretty nice that you manager to still do lesson everyday, congrats !
Btw : Whatās your script to show the number of items par level (Apprentice I, II, III, IV, etc) ? Thanks !
Exactly what I did 
Thereās a good reason though, so Iām fine with itā¦ Iāll take my punishment 
Not mine, itās this one by seanblue:
https://community.wanikani.com/t/userscript-wanikani-dashboard-srs-and-leech-breakdown/32756
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Hello, Iāve added myself to the list.
I am aiming for the N3 JLPT in December 2020. At my average pace of 9 days 10 hours, I will hit level 35 by this November. Hopefully Iāll be ready for the N3 at that point!
Iāve done some kanji/grammar study outside of WK (Duolingo, italki) so some of the stuff that Iām going through right now is largely review and putting in the SRS work. Extra studying never hurts though, right?
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I added you on my leaderboard, we got the same goal ! 
Iāll start Bunpro on monday, when I should hit 6 so I totally agree, more studying never hurts !
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Welcome! Thank you for joining us! ććććć
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Whatās your opinion of a reasonable number of guru items to have at any one time? I have 304 right now.
Iāve heard 100 apprentice, and thatās working well for me, but I think my gurus are currently bloated with leeches.
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I currently have 620 in Guru but I donāt know how much of that is leeches to be honest 
I have no āright numberā but if hearing 620 makes you think āhell noā then I would say something like āup to 619 maxā
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im on around 800 guru right now and have consistently been over 600-900 guru for at least 20 levels
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I have 300-500 gurus most of the time. You can bring it down but youāll get returning items failing back to guru plus apprentice items moving up.
So itās not that easy to maintain
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I usually have 500-600 guru. Donāt think Iāve been below 500 for a long time!
Edit: I currently have 624. Thatās probably not unusual.
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I think that, as long as you donāt get them wrong, Guru count doesnāt really matter. Apprentice count is the only important one.
If you care about the math behind it and the load of each SRS stage, here is a mathematical explanation of why Guru itself doesnāt matter:
"Long mathematical details, you've been warned
Edited out because no one ever cared about the math. Basically one item more in Appr 3 is 14 times heavier than one more in Guru 2.
TL;DR Guru leeches are a problem because they will fall back to Apprentice, enlarging the Apprentice count in the near future (possibly multiple times). The Guru count itself is not important. The leech count is.
I havenāt found a way around leeches myself 
, but I think studying them in sentences outside WK may be the only real way to squash them for good.
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Finally reached 0/0 again after three weeks of struggling! At this point I just want to reach the magical lvl 30 and then hold off on new lessons for a whole month or so for my daily review amounts to calm down so I can find some time to do more leech review sessions and focus more on bunpro.
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ā¦ I care about that math but if itās too much pain in the neck to retype your explanation then thank you for the figures!
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