Scaling the review mountain part 4 - half done is well begun

You may be getting disheartened by some of the metrics you’ve set, so it might have been easy to miss that your Apprentice and Guru counts have gone down by over 200 each in the last month! At that pace, you will be back down to normal levels in less than 10 weeks! You’re so close!

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Since I’d been doing so poorly lately at WK, I had thought about doing a BBO Leech Review this morning, but decided to put it off to Sunday instead. It’s a good thing I did, because I actually did well at WK for once today.

This morning, I did 100 reviews in 20 minutes with 89% accuracy, but effectively 91% once typos and missing synonyms are accounted for. Not the fastest, but way better accuracy than usual. I also missed the 綿 kanji yet again - at this point, it seems like I’m never going to Guru it, but fortunately, that doesn’t matter much, since I only need to Guru two of the remaining five kanji to level up.

This evening, I did a rare second session of WK, which much to my surprise, also went well. I did 100 reviews with only 86% accuracy this time, but in only 14 minutes! Even taking into the account the fact that I started right when the minute ticked over on the clock, that’s still one of the fastest sessions ever.

Sat Jul 16 2022:
Time spent: 34m
Reviews completed: 200
Reviews remaining: 1753
Reviews in next week: 2221 (+468)
Reviews in next month: 3041 (+820)
Accuracy: 87.50% (175/200)

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 727
Guru: 904
Master: 920
Enlightened: 2045
Burned: 2618

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Leech Review 34

I decided to try modifying my stats script to add level, since I might be leveling soon, and I figured that as long as I needed to delete my review database and redownload everything from scratch to work around the still-broken WK api anyway, I might as well do a special leech review tonight while I’m at it.

This time around, it was very challenging, but I still managed to get through it in 21 minutes with 72% accuracy. Which is better than it sounds since this time around, I did not include the “non-guru’d kanji” option, so I didn’t have a bunch of easy level kanji to artificially boost the score.

Also, my review count is down to 321. It was apparently 357 following my last leech review two weeks ago.

2022-03-26: 64.32% (146/227)
2022-04-02: 75.91% (167/220)
2022-04-09: 80.00% (172/215)
2022-05-28: 70.00% (70/100)
2022-06-20: 66.00% (66/100)
2022-06-25: 72.00% (72/100)
2022-07-02: 77.00% (77/100)
2022-07-18: 72.00% (72/100)
vocab	伴う To Accompany ともなう
vocab	仕える To Serve つかえる
vocab	鹿児島県 Kagoshima Prefecture かごしまけん
vocab	従来 Up To Now じゅうらい
vocab	従業 Employment じゅうぎょう
vocab	想定 Hypothesis そうてい
vocab	及ぼす To Exert およぼす
vocab	封書 Sealed Letter ふうしょ
vocab	期限 Term きげん
vocab	指揮 Command しき
vocab	指摘 Pointing Out してき
vocab	欠く To Lack Something かく
vocab	摘発する To Unmask てきはつする
vocab	各々 Each おのおの
vocab	刑罰 Punishment けいばつ
vocab	延びる To Be Extended のびる
vocab	受かる To Get Accepted うかる
vocab	提供 Offer ていきょう
vocab	致す To Do いたす
vocab	歳月 Time さいげつ
vocab	継父 Stepfather けいふ
kanji	枠 Frame わく
vocab	携わる To Engage In たずさわる
vocab	静々 Quietly しずしず
vocab	営む To Run A Business いとなむ
kanji	材 Lumber ざい
vocab	田畑 Field たはた
vocab	死亡 Mortality しぼう
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Added level to my nightly stat posts in preparation for when I hit 47. I expect that to still take another week or two, but a lot depends on luck - it could happen in a day or it could take months.

Sun Jul 17 2022:
Time spent: 11m
Reviews completed: 55
Reviews remaining: 1795
Reviews in next week: 2261 (+466)
Reviews in next month: 3032 (+771)
Accuracy: 78.18% (43/55)
Level: 46

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 726
Guru: 903
Master: 913
Enlightened: 2050
Burned: 2622

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Good day today. It helps that a bunch of words that came up were ones I’d seen in the leech review last night. Also +30 day review count now below 3k!

Mon Jul 18 2022:
Time spent: 40m
Reviews completed: 233
Reviews remaining: 1630
Reviews in next week: 2156 (+526)
Reviews in next month: 2972 (+816)
Accuracy: 84.55% (197/233)
Level: 46

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 707
Guru: 892
Master: 897
Enlightened: 2083
Burned: 2635

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One milestone I’ve had my eye on for a while was when the number of burned resurrected items exceeds the number of apprentice resurrected items. IIRC, I was 10 short yesterday, but it has been going up rapidly lately, so I was hoping to hit it today. As it turns out, I was one short, but oh well, close enough. I’ll almost certainly be hitting the landmark tomorrow in any case. I guess I can say that I passed the landmark of 200 burned resurrected items today.

Tue Jul 19 2022:
Time spent: 25m
Reviews completed: 129
Reviews remaining: 1587
Reviews in next week: 2121 (+534)
Reviews in next month: 2961 (+840)
Accuracy: 81.40% (105/129)
Level: 46

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 704
Guru: 882
Master: 886
Enlightened: 2098
Burned: 2646

Resurrected item counts:
Res-Apprentice: 202
Res-Guru: 373
Res-Master: 542
Res-Enlightened: 1350
Res-Burned: 201

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Just had one of my most unbelievable sessions ever. I managed to get 25 items right (twice) before the first failure and completed 60 before the second. Then the third after 67 and two more near the end, finishing 100 reviews with 95% accuracy. I also did 100 reviews in 20 minutes, despite slowing down a bit after realizing I was on a record streak in order to be more careful and preserve the streak.

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This is the most realistic thread.

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As expected, my resurrected burn count finally passed my resurrected apprentice count today.

Wed Jul 20 2022:
Time spent: 20m
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 1626
Reviews in next week: 2103 (+477)
Reviews in next month: 2939 (+836)
Accuracy: 95.00% (95/100)
Level: 46

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 698
Guru: 871
Master: 883
Enlightened: 2110
Burned: 2654

Resurrected item counts:
Res-Apprentice: 197
Res-Guru: 369
Res-Master: 538
Res-Enlightened: 1361
Res-Burned: 203

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I did it! I finally did it! A year and 13 days after resetting to level 46, I finally reached level 47 again!

This morning, I didn’t feel up to WK and quit after only two minutes. In the afternoon, I didn’t get started until 5:42 and didn’t think I’d be able to get through my target of 100 reviews since I have a rule about not doing WK after 6pm. However, I rushed through as fast as I could and somehow made it through 100 reviews in only 16 minutes, and with 84% accuracy to boot.

However, I was even more shocked when I went back to the WK dashboard and saw 57 lessons awaiting me, indicating that I’d somehow leveled up. I never expected it to happen like this or this quickly. I’d been stuck at two kanji remaining for the last eight days, and I figured it would take a long time for the first kanji to randomly come up, and then even longer still for the second kanji and the level up. But somehow, two different level kanji came up together right near the end of the session, so I leveled up out of nowhere without even noticing.

Anyway, it was after 6pm, but I didn’t want to neglect the new pile of lessons after leveling up, so I broke the usual rule and powered through all 57 lessons in 20 minutes (6:02-6:22), barely paying attention. I’m sure I won’t remember most of them, but oh well. I’ll learn them eventually, one way or another. It’s funny how a few of the kanji seem incredibly obvious due to being parts of common words that I already know, while the rest seem hopelessly obscure. In fact, one of the new words (眺め) confused me, because I felt like I’d been reviewing it all along this last year. I could have sworn it even came up in my leech lists before. I couldn’t believe that it was actually on level 47 in WK.

Incidentally, the 57 new lessons I did tonight also makes this probably the first time in a very long time that my Apprentice count actually went up.

Thu Jul 21 2022:
Time spent: 38m L20
Reviews completed: 112
Reviews remaining: 1660
Reviews in next week: 2146 (+486)
Reviews in next month: 2981 (+835)
Accuracy: 83.93% (94/112)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 742
Guru: 872
Master: 875
Enlightened: 2125
Burned: 2659

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Thats Insane :star_struck:

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Fri Jul 22 2022:
Time spent: 37m
Reviews completed: 200
Reviews remaining: 1576
Reviews in next week: 2098 (+522)
Reviews in next month: 2964 (+866)
Accuracy: 82.00% (164/200)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 726
Guru: 868
Master: 866
Enlightened: 2145
Burned: 2668

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Sat Jul 23 2022:
Time spent: 25m
Reviews completed: 138
Reviews remaining: 1563
Reviews in next week: 2086 (+523)
Reviews in next month: 2940 (+854)
Accuracy: 89.13% (123/138)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 714
Guru: 861
Master: 858
Enlightened: 2168
Burned: 2674

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Sun Jul 24 2022:
Time spent: 17m
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 1589
Reviews in next week: 2057 (+468)
Reviews in next month: 2922 (+865)
Accuracy: 83.00% (83/100)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 712
Guru: 847
Master: 857
Enlightened: 2176
Burned: 2683

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Not my best day.

Mon Jul 25 2022:
Time spent: 2m
Reviews completed: 12
Reviews remaining: 1671
Reviews in next week: 2094 (+423)
Reviews in next month: 2932 (+838)
Accuracy: 58.33% (7/12)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 714
Guru: 842
Master: 860
Enlightened: 2176
Burned: 2683

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They can’t all be good, and in your case, they’re mostly good. Bad days are just little reminders to stay humble and hustle hard.

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Tue Jul 26 2022:
Time spent: 23m
Reviews completed: 111
Reviews remaining: 1630
Reviews in next week: 2072 (+442)
Reviews in next month: 2914 (+842)
Accuracy: 76.58% (85/111)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 715
Guru: 836
Master: 850
Enlightened: 2181
Burned: 2693

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Wed Jul 27 2022:
Time spent: 10m
Reviews completed: 59
Reviews remaining: 1645
Reviews in next week: 2085 (+440)
Reviews in next month: 2909 (+824)
Accuracy: 71.19% (42/59)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 711
Guru: 841
Master: 843
Enlightened: 2179
Burned: 2701

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Thu Jul 28 2022:
Time spent: 19m
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 1656
Reviews in next week: 2063 (+407)
Reviews in next month: 2901 (+838)
Accuracy: 82.00% (82/100)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 715
Guru: 824
Master: 840
Enlightened: 2181
Burned: 2715

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Fri Jul 29 2022:
Time spent: 16m
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 1658
Reviews in next week: 2077 (+419)
Reviews in next month: 2885 (+808)
Accuracy: 85.00% (85/100)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 706
Guru: 820
Master: 832
Enlightened: 2195
Burned: 2722

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