Why don’t you use the reorder script to sort your review by level for example? It would be much more efficient to always review the item as soon as they are ready instead of letting wanikani chose at random among the big pile of apprentices, no?
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Because I think it would be less efficient and less effective. What you’re suggesting amounts to artificially cramming a few items at a time while ignoring everything else, which is boring and pointless.
In any case, I was doing manual extra leech reviews every week for a while, which is similar.
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My gosh, you’re still going. You going to catch up?
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Eventually. As you can see, I’ve been making rapid progress lately.
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What kind of fun things are you doing with the language during this adventure?
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If you’re interested in the non-WK parts of my Japanese journey, you can follow my log here: Learning Japanese from zero by listening - A language learners’ forum
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Well, to be fair, “artificially cramming a few items at a time while ignoring everything else” is pretty much the vanilla WK experience that the program was designed to give 
. There’s a reason why the content is gated behind levels, because it’s much easier to focus on a small pool of items rather than trying to study 2000 kanji and 6000 vocab words at the same time.
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Yes, but even then, you have old items coming back up for Master/Enlighten/Burn sometimes.
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Fri May 20 2022:
Time spent: 27m
Reviews completed: 122
Reviews remaining: 2547
Reviews in next week: 3109 (+562)
Reviews in next month: 3892 (+783)
Accuracy: 79.51% (97/122)
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 1227
Guru: 1346
Master: 999
Enlightened: 1314
Burned: 2278
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Did really great this morning, and my review count is finally under 2500!
Sat May 21 2022:
Time spent: 33m
Reviews completed: 175
Reviews remaining: 2480
Reviews in next week: 3036 (+556)
Reviews in next month: 3879 (+843)
Accuracy: 88.57% (155/175)
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 1217
Guru: 1332
Master: 1002
Enlightened: 1325
Burned: 2288
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This morning, I noticed that the review counts showing on Wanikani were three higher than what my script was saying, so I had to investigate and fix it.
It turns out that the issue is related to three items (又 (kanji), 又 (vocab), and 公告) that were moved to a higher level last August and September. At the time, Wanikani was programmed so that when an item is moved to a level higher than your current level, it will no longer show up for reviews, even if you already unlocked it. Therefore, I had to add a level filter to my script in order to get the correct review count.
However, it looks like Wanikani must have recently changed that behavior, since those three items are coming up for review again now, even though I’m still only level 46, and the count of items awaiting review is correspondingly three higher. Therefore, I had to remove the level filter from the script to get the correct numbers again.
Sun May 22 2022:
Time spent: 6m
Reviews completed: 27
Reviews remaining: 2530
Reviews in next week: 3075 (+545)
Reviews in next month: 3883 (+808)
Accuracy: 66.67% (18/27)
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 1219
Guru: 1332
Master: 1000
Enlightened: 1327
Burned: 2289
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Yah, there was a thread about it somewhere. Uh…
Here we go:
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I’m just curious, since you’ve been working diligently at this for so long: why didn’t you reset to lower, like in the 20s? In the interim year, you would have gotten the pile all the way down and probably be back to 60 again with everything up to at least enlightened, no?
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Well, the short answer is that I had already burned an item at level 45 by the time I reset down to 46, so I didn’t want to reset any further. The long answer is that I didn’t need to and didn’t think it would help. I highly doubt that I would actually be farther along now if I had reset further- quite the opposite in fact.
I also think that artificially reviewing only a small set of items at a time is less effective for actual learning, because it leads to overfitting. Mixing reviews of high and low level items together is an advantage, not a disadvantage, since it means you’re more likely to learn how to distinguish them, rather than just memorizing and forgetting them one at a time.
Mon May 23 2022:
Time spent: 19m
Reviews completed: 85
Reviews remaining: 2589
Reviews in next week: 3100 (+511)
Reviews in next month: 3871 (+771)
Accuracy: 75.29% (64/85)
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 1214
Guru: 1323
Master: 1001
Enlightened: 1340
Burned: 2289
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Tue May 24 2022:
Time spent: 32m
Reviews completed: 139
Reviews remaining: 2531
Reviews in next week: 3075 (+544)
Reviews in next month: 3858 (+783)
Accuracy: 81.29% (113/139)
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 1204
Guru: 1315
Master: 1005
Enlightened: 1353
Burned: 2290
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any reason why you rushed to finish wk?
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I’m confused. What makes you think I “rushed to finish wk”?
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I read raced and in my mind it was rushed.
Just confusion in my part, sorry.
But how long did you take to finish then? I am worried about the part you forgot pretty much everything. I am trying as much as I can to keep in imersion with podcasts and anime with japanese subtitles so I dont forget them in short term.
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Oh, you’re talking about the first year, when I speedran WK, not the current effort. You can see my celebration post here which has some details.
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Edit: Wow, apparently I hit 2500 again. Unlike when I usually hit milestones, I wasn’t paying attention to my review count when doing reviews, let alone aiming for it, so I ended up at 2498 by pure coincidence. I didn’t even notice until after I made this post!
Wed May 25 2022:
Time spent: 33m
Reviews completed: 178
Reviews remaining: 2498
Reviews in next week: 3064 (+566)
Reviews in next month: 3833 (+769)
Accuracy: 81.46% (145/178)
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 1185
Guru: 1307
Master: 1011
Enlightened: 1366
Burned: 2298