Scaling the 6583 review wall - Once more unto the breach!

[l_l]

I was busy all day and didn’t have time for much, but the brief reviews I did do went well.

Sat Nov 20 2021:
Time spent: 5m
Reviews completed: 25
Reviews remaining: 4582
Reviews in next week: 4845 (+263)
Accuracy: 80.00% (20/25)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 86.67% (13/15)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 70.00% (7/10)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2863
Guru: 1351
Master: 479
Enlightened: 736
Burned 1624

[l_l]

Progress Charts

I finally took the time to figure out how to scrape my progress posts and create some graphs showing my review count over time.

The first two months of this challenge are a bit complicated to graph, because I reset my level several times, first from 60 to 48, then to 47, and finally to 46. Below is a chart of my review count for the first 90 days, showing the count after each time I reset in a different color. As you can see, this was not a happy time for me

And here’s a chart showing my progress in the 135 days since I reset to level 46 (July 9th - November 20th). At the end of August, I also started tracking reviews due in the next week (red line) as well as the current review count (blue line). Note that this graph does not include the stats for today (November 21st), which will be off the bottom of the graph

[l_l]

I did well on my reviews today and completely smashed the previous record review count, reaching 4284. And that’s even more impressive than it seems, because I also did three new lessons today, so my review count would have been only 4281 if I hadn’t done any lessons.

Incidentally, I don’t think it’s entirely coincidence that I’ve been blowing past one record after another recently. If you look at my graphs above, it may seem like I was basically just treading water for months, but I think one of the keys is that a lot of progress comes in ways that aren’t reflected in the review count graphs.

First off is the fact that almost a quarter of the easier items have advanced to guru or higher now. When I first started, most of the reviews I did were at Apprentice level, so whenever I tried to “sprint” by doing lots of reviews at once, my review count would just bounce back almost immediately as all the items I reviewed re-entered the review pile in hours or days. However, nowadays over half the reviews I do end up at guru+, meaning that they won’t add to the pile again for at least a week. This means that the bounce back is not as severe and takes longer to manifest, which has enabled me to dive much deeper than before.

The second major factor is increased accuracy. While there are some items I’ve missed repeatedly, I sometimes I do manage to remember an item that I missed previously when it comes back up for review. Combined with increased familiarity in general, and my accuracy has gone up a lot over time, which also helps keep my review count down for longer with less effort. Another side effect of this is that when my accuracy is higher, I’m a lot more motivated to do reviews. When I miss a bunch of reviews, I’ll just give up and quit early.

Back during the summer when I was just treading water, I told myself that every little bit helped and I was still slowly making invisible progress as described above. However, it’s one thing to think that and quite another to really see it in action.

On another note, at the end of August, I added a new stat to my nightly stat posts - reviews due in the next week. The idea behind this is the “bounce back” effect mentioned above. Early on, most of my reviews were Apprentice, which meant that the current review count was highly volatile. If I did a bunch of reviews, the review count would plummet, then immediately bounce back up.

The idea was that tracking the review count due in 7 days instead would provide a much less volatile picture of my progress, since it isn’t affected by Apprentice reviews at all. You can see this reflected in the graph above. The red line tends to track the blue line, but it goes up and down by smaller amounts each time, and more smoothly.

However, since over half my reviews lately have been Guru+, the +7 day review count is still relatively volatile, so I decided to add a new stat: Reviews due in the next month. This number can only be decreased by Enlightened and Burn reviews, so it will probably only go up and down very slowly.

Sun Nov 21 2021:
Time spent: 92
Reviews completed: 409
Reviews remaining: 4284
Reviews in next week: 4740 (+456)
Reviews in next month: 5094 (+354)
Accuracy: 75.79% (310/409)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 92.65% (189/204)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 59.02% (121/205)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2835
Guru: 1387
Master: 470
Enlightened: 714
Burned 1650

[l_l]

Here are the current stats for the items I unburned back in May. As I mentioned last night, nearly a quarter are already at Guru or higher, and another 18.7% are not far behind at Apprentice 4. I’m also amazed that eight items have already made it all the way to Enlightened (remember, they all started at Apprentice 1 back in May). Last time I checked, only one had.

It’s also worth noting that just because I burned an item last year doesn’t mean I know it well, and I also occasionally make mistakes on the ones I do know. Therefore, a lot of the ones still at Apprentice 1 are probably there because I missed them when they came up for review, rather than still not having come up for review at all yet in the last six months.

Apprentice 1: 406 (15.22%)
Apprentice 2: 529 (19.83%)
Apprentice 3: 603 (22.60%)
Apprentice 4: 499 (18.70%)
Guru 1: 346 (12.97%)
Guru 2: 199 (7.46%)
Master: 78 (2.92%)
Enlightened: 8 (0.30%)

[l_l]

Barely had time to do reviews today, and since I’m going on vacation tomorrow, I’m unlikely to do many reviews for the next week, either.

Mon Nov 22 2021:
Time spent: 5m
Reviews completed: 21
Reviews remaining: 4395
Reviews in next week: 4747 (+352)
Reviews in next month: 5102 (+355)
Accuracy: 71.43% (15/21)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 76.92% (10/13)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 62.50% (5/8)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2834
Guru: 1387
Master: 471
Enlightened: 714
Burned 1650

[l_l]

I had a great review session and did a lot of reviews this morning before leaving on vacation. I probably won’t be doing much if any for the next week though.

Tue Nov 23 2021:
Time spent: 35m
Reviews completed: 136
Reviews remaining: 4404
Reviews in next week: 4720 (+316)
Reviews in next month: 5092 (+372)
Accuracy: 80.15% (109/136)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 86.42% (70/81)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 70.91% (39/55)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2815
Guru: 1402
Master: 473
Enlightened: 709
Burned 1657

[l_l]

Wed Nov 24 2021:
Time spent: 5m
Reviews completed: 23
Reviews remaining: 4474
Reviews in next week: 4761 (+287)
Reviews in next month: 5090 (+329)
Accuracy: 78.26% (18/23)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 88.89% (8/9)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 71.43% (10/14)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2813
Guru: 1404
Master: 471
Enlightened: 710
Burned 1658

[l_l]

Thu Nov 25 2021:
Time spent: 4m
Reviews completed: 19
Reviews remaining: 4515
Reviews in next week: 4770 (+255)
Reviews in next month: 5091 (+321)
Accuracy: 73.68% (14/19)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 100.00% (8/8)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 54.55% (6/11)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2811
Guru: 1405
Master: 473
Enlightened: 708
Burned 1659

[l_l]

Fri Nov 26 2021:
Time spent: 3m
Reviews completed: 15
Reviews remaining: 4527
Reviews in next week: 4780 (+253)
Reviews in next month: 5093 (+313)
Accuracy: 60.00% (9/15)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 85.71% (6/7)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 37.50% (3/8)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2811
Guru: 1405
Master: 475
Enlightened: 706
Burned 1659

[l_l]

Sat Nov 27 2021:
Time spent: 5m
Reviews completed: 22
Reviews remaining: 4543
Reviews in next week: 4783 (+240)
Reviews in next month: 5098 (+315)
Accuracy: 68.18% (15/22)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 75.00% (9/12)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 60.00% (6/10)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2810
Guru: 1405
Master: 475
Enlightened: 707
Burned 1659

[l_l]

Sun Nov 28 2021:
Time spent: 5m
Reviews completed: 24
Reviews remaining: 4619
Reviews in next week: 4834 (+215)
Reviews in next month: 5101 (+267)
Accuracy: 75.00% (18/24)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 100.00% (13/13)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 45.45% (5/11)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2809
Guru: 1407
Master: 475
Enlightened: 706
Burned 1659

[funnysilly]

Keep it up! I think about your journey from time to time when I slack off and have 200-300. You really are so powerful for this!

[l_l]

Mon Nov 29 2021:
Time spent: 3m
Reviews completed: 16
Reviews remaining: 4623
Reviews in next week: 4839 (+216)
Reviews in next month: 5105 (+266)
Accuracy: 68.75% (11/16)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 100.00% (10/10)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 16.67% (1/6)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2811
Guru: 1404
Master: 476
Enlightened: 706
Burned 1659

[l_l]

Tue Nov 30 2021:
Time spent: 3m
Reviews completed: 15
Reviews remaining: 4655
Reviews in next week: 4888 (+233)
Reviews in next month: 5106 (+218)
Accuracy: 66.67% (10/15)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 66.67% (4/6)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 66.67% (6/9)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2810
Guru: 1406
Master: 475
Enlightened: 705
Burned 1660

[l_l]

Wed Dec 01 2021:
Time spent: 5m
Reviews completed: 17
Reviews remaining: 4704
Reviews in next week: 4893 (+189)
Reviews in next month: 5105 (+212)
Accuracy: 76.47% (13/17)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 70.00% (7/10)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 85.71% (6/7)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2807
Guru: 1407
Master: 475
Enlightened: 707
Burned 1660

[l_l]

Thu Dec 02 2021:
Time spent: 7m
Reviews completed: 28
Reviews remaining: 4700
Reviews in next week: 4893 (+193)
Reviews in next month: 5108 (+215)
Accuracy: 75.00% (21/28)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 94.44% (17/18)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 40.00% (4/10)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2806
Guru: 1407
Master: 477
Enlightened: 705
Burned 1661

[l_l]

Fri Dec 03 2021:
Time spent: 7m
Reviews completed: 29
Reviews remaining: 4705
Reviews in next week: 4901 (+196)
Reviews in next month: 5114 (+213)
Accuracy: 79.31% (23/29)
Accuracy on resurrected items: 84.62% (11/13)
Accuracy on non-resurrected items: 75.00% (12/16)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 2813
Guru: 1409
Master: 474
Enlightened: 708
Burned 1661

[l_l]

Leech Review XV

Well today was supposed to be my triumphant return to WK (despite the leech reviews not actually being done on WK), but instead it went pretty badly. Accuracy was way down compared to last time. In fact, it was my worst ever, and by a large margin too.

2021-10-16: 81.15% (211/260)
2021-11-06: 67.66% (159/235)
2021-11-13: 71.90% (151/210)
2021-11-20: 75.12% (160/213)
2021-12-04: 62.50% (115/184)

Despite having a lot fewer reviews to do, it took me 50 minutes to get through them (or nearly two hours if you include breaks and so on).

I can’t believe that I missed 滞る yet again, especially since I said the exact same thing two weeks ago. I also missed a lot of jin/nin words yet again - 恩人, 変人, 人種, 宇宙人, etc. You’d think that I’d get them right 50% of the time just from random guessing, but it doesn’t seem to work out that way.

Anyway, without further ado, here’s the leeches I missed again after reviewing them this morning.

vocab	滞る To Be Overdue とどこおる
kanji	済 Come To An End さい
vocab	冷静 Cool Headed れいせい
vocab	済ます To Finish Something すます
vocab	条約 Treaty じょうやく
vocab	慰める To Console なぐさめる
vocab	志望 Desire しぼう
vocab	捉える To Catch とらえる
kanji	探 Look For たん
vocab	眉間 Brow みけん
vocab	焦げる To Be Burned こげる
vocab	法則 Physical Law ほうそく
vocab	象徴 Symbol しょうちょう
vocab	眺める To Stare At ながめる
vocab	総合 Overall そうごう
vocab	贈賄 Bribery ぞうわい
vocab	発揮する To Exhibit はっきする
vocab	由来 Origin ゆらい
vocab	教授 Teaching きょうじゅ
vocab	筒 Pipe つつ
vocab	やり甲斐 Worth Doing やりがい
vocab	責める To Blame せめる
vocab	恩人 Benefactor おんじん
vocab	解ける To Be Solved とける
vocab	領土 Territory りょうど
vocab	対外 Foreign たいがい
vocab	焦る To Be In A Hurry あせる
vocab	ばい菌 Germ ばいきん
vocab	垂らす To Dangle Something たらす
vocab	商売 Business しょうばい
kanji	紹 Introduce しょう
vocab	著しい Remarkable いちじるしい
kanji	速 Fast そく
vocab	執筆 Writing しっぴつ
vocab	大抵 Generally たいてい
vocab	補う To Supplement おぎなう
kanji	貸 Lend たい
vocab	裂ける To Be Split さける
vocab	傾ける To Lean かたむける
vocab	失望 Disappointment しつぼう
kanji	備 Provide び
vocab	暴走 Run Wild ぼうそう
vocab	壊滅 Destruction かいめつ
vocab	欠点 Shortcoming けってん
vocab	雅致 Artistry がち
vocab	筋 Tendon すじ
vocab	近々 Before Long ちかぢか
vocab	変人 An Eccentric へんじん
vocab	先頃 Recently さきごろ
vocab	過ごす To Spend Time On すごす
vocab	計算 Calculation けいさん
vocab	回数券 Book Of Tickets かいすうけん
vocab	頭痛 Headache ずつう
vocab	火照る To Feel Hot ほてる
vocab	甘党 Sweet Tooth あまとう
vocab	人種 Race Of People じんしゅ
vocab	黒幕 Wirepuller くろまく
vocab	賄う To Pay まかなう
vocab	越える To Go Beyond こえる
vocab	割れる To Be Divided われる
vocab	得 Benefit とく
vocab	治る To Get Better なおる
vocab	早々 As Soon As そうそう
vocab	宇宙人 Alien うちゅうじん
vocab	朗報 Good News ろうほう
vocab	尋ねる To Inquire たずねる
kanji	酎 Sake ちゅう
kanji	後 Behind ご
kanji	戚 Relatives せき

[Cathm2]

If it’s any consolation that’s a nice list of my own leeches too.

[ResFort]

@l_l if I might ask, did you make that leech list/table manually, or is it some kind of export from somewhere, or from some script?
Some of those are my leeches too from my previous levels