Scaling the 4724 review wall - 塵も積もれば山となる

WaniKani
#33

I did some digging into the WK API error problem today, and the API appears to be broken when a updated_after query results in multiple pages of results. For those not familiar with the API, it has pagination, which means that if a query results in 1000 or fewer results, it just returns them normally. However, if there are more than 1000 results, the API just returns the first 1000, plus a link to the next “page” of results to get more.

I only use the custom leech review script I wrote once a week (every Saturday morning), and it of course it has to update its local review database each time by doing an updated_after query for reviews since the previous week. However, I did a lot more reviews than usual last week and must have hit 1000 reviews in one week for the first time, causing multiple pages of results to be returned, which broke the API.

If this is correct, than the API was probably always broken, and it’s just that last week was the first time I actually did enough reviews to run into this bug. Imagine doing so many reviews you break Wanikani!

There have been some times I was forced to skip a week or two of leech reviews due to vacation, but in those cases, I was also doing negligible reviews for the same reason, so I probably never hit 1000 even after a two or three week gap in those cases.

Sun Dec 26 2021:
Time spent: 29m
Reviews completed: 143
Reviews remaining: 4097
Reviews in next week: 4515 (+418)
Reviews in next month: 4926 (+411)
Accuracy: 76.22% (109/143)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 88.51% (77/87)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 57.14% (32/56)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2574
Guru: 1528
Master: 531
Enlightened: 653
Burned 1797

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#34

Mon Dec 27 2021:
Time spent: 21m
Reviews completed: 92
Reviews remaining: 4099
Reviews in next week: 4520 (+421)
Reviews in next month: 4916 (+396)
Accuracy: 76.09% (70/92)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 87.76% (43/49)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 62.79% (27/43)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2569
Guru: 1532
Master: 530
Enlightened: 651
Burned 1801

#35

Tue Dec 28 2021:
Time spent: 23m
Reviews completed: 108
Reviews remaining: 4081
Reviews in next week: 4513 (+432)
Reviews in next month: 4912 (+399)
Accuracy: 78.70% (85/108)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 89.06% (57/64)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 63.64% (28/44)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2554
Guru: 1540
Master: 535
Enlightened: 651
Burned 1803

#36

Wed Dec 29 2021:
Time spent: 16m
Reviews completed: 80
Reviews remaining: 4099
Reviews in next week: 4506 (+407)
Reviews in next month: 4908 (+402)
Accuracy: 71.25% (57/80)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 82.93% (34/41)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 58.97% (23/39)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2547
Guru: 1543
Master: 536
Enlightened: 653
Burned 1804

#37

As someone who just reset because he had ~1000 reviews stacked up, you’re completely nuts man, good luck lmao

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#38

Thanks. I often wonder whether I’m nuts for doing this myself.

Thu Dec 30 2021:
Time spent: 21m
Reviews completed: 92
Reviews remaining: 4094
Reviews in next week: 4494 (+400)
Reviews in next month: 4907 (+413)
Accuracy: 77.17% (71/92)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 88.24% (45/51)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 63.41% (26/41)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2539
Guru: 1544
Master: 540
Enlightened: 654
Burned 1806

#39

Fri Dec 31 2021:
Time spent: 18m
Reviews completed: 79
Reviews remaining: 4080
Reviews in next week: 4494 (+414)
Reviews in next month: 4905 (+411)
Accuracy: 73.42% (58/79)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 77.14% (27/35)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 70.45% (31/44)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2536
Guru: 1541
Master: 543
Enlightened: 652
Burned 1811

#40

Leech Review XVIII

This week’s leech review was a miserable slog. It took me 55 minutes to get through them all, and I missed a ton. I was sorely tempted to just give up halfway through.

This is probably because I had to skip last week due to the WK API being broken, so there was a two week gap, which meant that a) there were more leeches to review and b) I’d forgotten more of the items from last time. It doesn’t help that I haven’t been doing well at WK lately.

2021-11-20: 75.12% (160/213)
2021-12-04: 62.50% (115/184)
2021-12-11: 70.56% (127/180)
2021-12-18: 76.68% (148/193)
2022-01-01: 71.14% (175/246)

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#41

Sat Jan 01 2022:
Time spent: 5m
Reviews completed: 29
Reviews remaining: 4138
Reviews in next week: 4505 (+367)
Reviews in next month: 4906 (+401)
Accuracy: 82.76% (24/29)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 89.47% (17/19)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 70.00% (7/10)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2534
Guru: 1542
Master: 542
Enlightened: 654
Burned 1811

#42

In case you couldn’t tell, a little over a week ago, I gave Anki another try, and I’ve only been putting a token effort into Wanikani, since most of my time is devoted to Anki instead. Hopefully once I get through the Anki deck, I can start seriously whittling down my WK review mountain again.

Sun Jan 02 2022:
Time spent: 15m
Reviews completed: 70
Reviews remaining: 4207
Reviews in next week: 4501 (+294)
Reviews in next month: 4903 (+402)
Accuracy: 80.00% (56/70)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 94.12% (32/34)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 66.67% (24/36)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2529
Guru: 1537
Master: 551
Enlightened: 651
Burned 1815

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#43

Mon Jan 03 2022:
Time spent: 9m
Reviews completed: 47
Reviews remaining: 4230
Reviews in next week: 4517 (+287)
Reviews in next month: 4901 (+384)
Accuracy: 76.60% (36/47)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 77.78% (21/27)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 75.00% (15/20)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2521
Guru: 1543
Master: 552
Enlightened: 651
Burned 1816

#44

Today, Anki actively harmed me on Wanikani, rather than just computing for scarce time. 克服 came up for burn review on WK today, and it is also in the Anki deck I’ve been studying recently. In the Anki deck, 克服 is listed as “overcoming”, so that’s what I put, but WK expects “conquest”. Of course I added a synonym on WK, and I’ll probably remember that it means both next time, but it’s still annoying that I missed burning it due to that and that I’ll have to wait for it to go Guru 2 → Master → Enlightened → Burned all over again.

延びる also came up on WK, which I missed due to putting “to grow longer”, but it turns out that that is 伸びる. I’ve had a lot of trouble remembering those words on WK in the past, but it certainly doesn’t help that I didn’t realize there were actually two separate words with the same reading and different meanings. At least now I know that I’ll have to pay attention to the kanji to guess the meaning.

On the bright side, my +30 Day Review count still dipped below 4900 for the first time today.

Tue Jan 04 2022:
Time spent: 10m
Reviews completed: 44
Reviews remaining: 4264
Reviews in next week: 4550 (+286)
Reviews in next month: 4898 (+348)
Accuracy: 75.00% (33/44)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 92.59% (25/27)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 47.06% (8/17)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2517
Guru: 1549
Master: 547
Enlightened: 652
Burned 1818

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#45

This morning was a disappointment, but I did really well on WK this evening, in both speed and accuracy. In fact, I did a rare second session this evening and did equally great on both, so i wasn’t just entirely luck either.

Of course, the downside of getting through reviews really fast is that it also means I get mentally tired and have to quit really fast as well - this evening, I had to stop after only 6 and 9 minutes, having down 35 and 50 reviews respectively. But it’s a lot better than the alternative!

Also, another Anki-induced synonym fail on WK this evening, when I put “recovery” for 回復 rather than the “restoration” that WK expects. Previously, I had studied on 回復 and got tripped up, guessing “restoration” when the card said “recovery”.

Wed Jan 05 2022:
Time spent: 25m
Reviews completed: 127
Reviews remaining: 4195
Reviews in next week: 4524 (+329)
Reviews in next month: 4882 (+358)
Accuracy: 81.10% (103/127)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 92.96% (66/71)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 66.07% (37/56)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2509
Guru: 1547
Master: 544
Enlightened: 662
Burned 1821

#46

Thu Jan 06 2022:
Time spent: 5m
Reviews completed: 25
Reviews remaining: 4247
Reviews in next week: 4537 (+290)
Reviews in next month: 4881 (+344)
Accuracy: 80.00% (20/25)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 92.86% (13/14)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 63.64% (7/11)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2509
Guru: 1545
Master: 545
Enlightened: 662
Burned 1822

#47

Fri Jan 07 2022:
Time spent: 9m
Reviews completed: 46
Reviews remaining: 4264
Reviews in next week: 4534 (+270)
Reviews in next month: 4880 (+346)
Accuracy: 82.61% (38/46)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 96.55% (28/29)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 58.82% (10/17)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2506
Guru: 1544
Master: 548
Enlightened: 662
Burned 1823

#48

Leech Review XIX

Another rough week for leech reviews. This time, I had to take frequent breaks, and it took me 47 minutes to get through, not including breaks.

2021-12-04: 62.50% (115/184)
2021-12-11: 70.56% (127/180)
2021-12-18: 76.68% (148/193)
2022-01-01: 71.14% (175/246)
2022-01-08: 72.22% (156/216)

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vocab	葬る To Bury ほうむる
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vocab	大臣 Minister だいじん
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#49

Sat Jan 08 2022:
Time spent: 5m
Reviews completed: 22
Reviews remaining: 4292
Reviews in next week: 4547 (+255)
Reviews in next month: 4879 (+332)
Accuracy: 86.36% (19/22)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 82.35% (14/17)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 100.00% (5/5)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2502
Guru: 1548
Master: 547
Enlightened: 661
Burned 1825

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#50

New Milestone Get!

My apprentice count is finally under 2500 for the first time! I’ve been wondering when I would reach that for months.

Sun Jan 09 2022:
Time spent: 18m
Reviews completed: 80
Reviews remaining: 4273
Reviews in next week: 4539 (+266)
Reviews in next month: 4876 (+337)
Accuracy: 81.25% (65/80)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 88.64% (39/44)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 72.22% (26/36)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2495
Guru: 1554
Master: 542
Enlightened: 665
Burned 1827

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#51

In honor of it being six months since I reset to level 46, here is a new progress chart!

As you can see, there is a clear downward trend over time. My review count has been creeping back up lately because I’ve only been making a token effort at Wanikani for the last two and a half weeks due to being busy with other stuff. However, once I expect to start doing WK again in earnest in two weeks or so, and crush my review pile again, just like every previous time I came back after a hiatus.

Furthermore, my +30 day review count has continued to go down during this period, slowly, but steadily, and I think it makes for a better measure of long term progress, so even though it doesn’t look like it, I am making a small amount of progress every day.

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#52

Mon Jan 10 2022:
Time spent: 6m
Reviews completed: 23
Reviews remaining: 4316
Reviews in next week: 4580 (+264)
Reviews in next month: 4876 (+296)
Accuracy: 69.57% (16/23)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 81.82% (9/11)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 58.33% (7/12)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2491
Guru: 1554
Master: 545
Enlightened: 665
Burned 1828