Missed 20 today.
Sat Jul 27 2024:
Time spent: 16m
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 39
Reviews in next week: 377 (+338)
Reviews in next month: 713 (+336)
Level: 60
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 77
Guru: 288
Master: 348
Enlightened: 248
Burned: 8265
Missed 18 today. It’s been a week since I last successfully burned an item and two days since even a single (failed) burn review came up for review. It’s almost certain that there are no burnable items left awaiting review at all, so this last week is basically just for the sake of bumping the Apprentice count back down a bit before I call it quits on WK for good.
Also, I did pass nine Enlightened reviews today, so there’s that.
Sun Jul 28 2024:
Time spent: 17m
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 18
Reviews in next week: 357 (+339)
Reviews in next month: 704 (+347)
Level: 60
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 69
Guru: 289
Master: 346
Enlightened: 257
Burned: 8265
I was in a hurry this morning and so only did the bare minimum 10 reviews. But hey, I only missed one.
Mon Jul 29 2024:
Time spent: 1m
Reviews completed: 10
Reviews remaining: 68
Reviews in next week: 366 (+298)
Reviews in next month: 702 (+336)
Level: 60
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 64
Guru: 294
Master: 344
Enlightened: 259
Burned: 8265
Missed 7 today.
Tue Jul 30 2024:
Time spent: 8m
Reviews completed: 50
Reviews remaining: 89
Reviews in next week: 366 (+277)
Reviews in next month: 695 (+329)
Level: 60
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 52
Guru: 301
Master: 342
Enlightened: 266
Burned: 8265
Missed 23 today.
For a long time, I’ve had trouble remembering all the military rank items on Wanikani, since there are so many of them and they are utterly impossible to remember. However, I saw one in the wild last night when reading Harry Potter, so there’s that.
Specifically, Aunt Marge says she smashed a wineglass while at Colonel Fubster’s, which is translated as 大佐. Coincidentally, 大佐 also came up for review on Wanikani this morning, the very next morning.
Even more coincidentally, right before doing WK this morning, I read some JPN logs, including one post that mentioned the word 素人, and it came up for review on Wanikani right afterwards. However, in this case, the coincidence was somewhat ruined by the fact that a) I already knew 素人 anyway and b) I still missed the review due to not remembering the exact reading (I guessed shiryoudo, but it’s actually shirouto).
Wed Jul 31 2024:
Time spent: 20m
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 44
Reviews in next week: 339 (+295)
Reviews in next month: 678 (+339)
Level: 60
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 41
Guru: 312
Master: 325
Enlightened: 283
Burned: 8265
That’s a clear sign that you need to watch some more Fullmetal Alchemist. 
Missed 10 today.
Thu Aug 01 2024:
Time spent: 9m
Reviews completed: 50
Reviews remaining: 45
Reviews in next week: 325 (+280)
Reviews in next month: 667 (+342)
Level: 60
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 41
Guru: 314
Master: 312
Enlightened: 294
Burned: 8265
Missed 10 today.
Fri Aug 02 2024:
Time spent: 9m
Reviews completed: 50
Reviews remaining: 44
Reviews in next week: 330 (+286)
Reviews in next month: 660 (+330)
Level: 60
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 34
Guru: 323
Master: 303
Enlightened: 301
Burned: 8265
Missed 18 today.
Annoyingly, I missed 一蹴する yet again this morning. I don’t know why it is, but every single time, I think “isshuusuru” for the reading, but then somehow actually type in “ishuusuru” instead and miss it. This is at least the fourth straight time that that has happened. I have no idea why, but it always happens.
But I guess I’ll be leaving Wanikani tomorrow, quite possibly for good, so it doesn’t really matter much in the scheme of things.
Sat Aug 03 2024:
Time spent: 17m
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 14
Reviews in next week: 283 (+269)
Reviews in next month: 648 (+365)
Level: 60
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 32
Guru: 315
Master: 301
Enlightened: 313
Burned: 8265
Missed 9 today. I also finally hit 0 for the first time this morning (it went back up since a few more reviews came due again later).
Sun Aug 04 2024:
Time spent: 12m
Reviews completed: 74
Reviews remaining: 6
Reviews in next week: 278 (+272)
Reviews in next month: 636 (+358)
Level: 60
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 32
Guru: 304
Master: 300
Enlightened: 325
Burned: 8265
Back on June 11th, I started an “epilogue” to my previous Wanikani challenge. With my review count now back up to 1569, I wanted to see how many I could burn. Now, 54 days later, I’ve finally hit 0 for the first time, thus ending the challenge.
Over those 54 days, I did a total of 3724 reviews and spent a total of 15 hours and 9 minutes doing reviews. Of those reviews, I missed a total of 1135 reviews, for an overall accuracy rate of 69.52%. However, that obscures the underlying patterns.
My main goal was to see how many items I could burn. At the start of the challenge, I had 901 items at the Enlightened level, and thus 901 items I could possibly burn. Of those, I only actually managed to burn 608, meaning I had a 67.48% accuracy rate on burn reviews.
Here’s a graph showing the number of items at each SRS level over time:
As you can see, the number of burns went up quickly at first, but tapered down over time. This is because at first, almost all the items up for review were Enlightened items that could be burned. But over time, as I either burned or failed all of them, all the possible burn reviews went away and the leeches made a higher and higher proportion of reviews.
Although I only finally hit 0 reviews this morning, my last successful burn was nearly two weeks ago on July 22nd, and the last (failed) burn review at all was on July 26th.
By the end, I was only reviewing items that I’d previously missed before, often many times (since when you miss them, they stay at Apprentice and keep coming back up).
You can also see this pattern in my speed and accuracy graphs. Here’s a graph of a five-day weighted rolling average of my review speed:
I started out very slow due to not remembering anything after being away from WK for over four months. Plus most of the items I was reviewing were high level burn reviews. Over time, seeing the reviews helped jog my memory, and also over time, more and more of the reviews were leeches that I’d already reviewed and missed recently, making things much easier.
This also lead to a corresponding increase in accuracy over time as well: (also five-day weighted average)
Anyway, I guess that’s it. I originally thought about doing a second epilogue four months from now to try to burn more items, but I decided there isn’t much point because over time, more and more of the items will just be impossible-to-remember leeches.
Therefore I do not plan to return to Wanikani unless they add new lessons again, and it’s been a long time since they did that, so I doubt it will happen again. Therefore, this seems like it is really the end. So long and thanks for all the 魚.
Nice try but we’re not falling for that again. See you in four months.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Man, it sure is weird, not having to do a nightly update post for the first time in months. But I’m sure I’ll get used to it very quickly, just like in February. At least not doing WK should free up a little time in the mornings.
as someone with 2800+ reviews, who hasn’t leveled up on WaniKani in almost two years, this saga has encouraged me to try and finish this damn thing. Thank you.
