Scaling the review mountain part 5 - the light at the end of the tunnel

I think that’s just because everything is high level now, so they don’t come up for review much. For several months now, a large fraction of my reviews have been burns.

Tue Nov 29 2022:
Time spent: 35m
Reviews completed: 200
Reviews remaining: 1020
Reviews in next week: 1299 (+279)
Reviews in next month: 1980 (+681)
Accuracy: 74.00% (148/200)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 438
Guru: 433
Master: 357
Enlightened: 1649
Burned: 4491

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I wasn’t trying to hit 1001, it just happened today purely by chance.

Wed Nov 30 2022:
Time spent: 12m
Reviews completed: 66
Reviews remaining: 1001
Reviews in next week: 1292 (+291)
Reviews in next month: 1964 (+672)
Accuracy: 75.76% (50/66)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 438
Guru: 431
Master: 355
Enlightened: 1642
Burned: 4502

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Psst. Even with taking a buncha days off for the holidays, you still managed to burn over 500 last month.

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Wow, you’re right! Looks like I was at 3909 at the end of October, so I burned 600+2-9 = 593 last month, almost 20 per day on average.

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Honestly what you were doing last month was working really well. You weren’t able to review every day, but you did a few really big reviews and knocked a lot of it out of the park. If you just do a couple big reviews per month, you’ll push ahead so fast!

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Thu Dec 01 2022:
Time spent: 0m
Reviews completed: 0
Reviews remaining: 1062
Reviews in next week: 1323 (+261)
Reviews in next month: 1989 (+666)
Level: 47

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Everytime I see you post in this thread, I get inspired to be better than I was yesterday. I’m rooting for you!

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I stopped early today due to getting frustrated about missing a lot of reviews, as well as being low on time. Funny how my original goal for the day was 200.

Fri Dec 02 2022:
Time spent: 7m
Reviews completed: 30
Reviews remaining: 1081
Reviews in next week: 1347 (+266)
Reviews in next month: 2005 (+658)
Accuracy: 76.67% (23/30)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 443
Guru: 434
Master: 355
Enlightened: 1636
Burned: 4507

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If it helps, and I hope it does, I’ve noticed when you do bigger review sessions your accuracy score doesn’t really decrease, and sometimes it increases. 76% of 30 might seem like a high miss rate, but 76% of 200 is still over 150 correct! Having a bad day just means those leeches managed to pile up back-to-back, which happens. The less reviews you have left, the more of them will be leeches… until they aren’t. The system will work itself out. Just keep plugging away! :slight_smile:

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Sat Dec 03 2022:
Time spent: 19m L1
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 1028
Reviews in next week: 1335 (+307)
Reviews in next month: 1996 (+661)
Accuracy: 66.00% (66/100)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 447
Guru: 428
Master: 361
Enlightened: 1621
Burned: 4521

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Only two kanji left to get to level 48!

Sun Dec 04 2022:
Time spent: 19m
Reviews completed: 97
Reviews remaining: 1011
Reviews in next week: 1322 (+311)
Reviews in next month: 1983 (+661)
Accuracy: 87.63% (85/97)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 438
Guru: 429
Master: 365
Enlightened: 1606
Burned: 4542

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Mon Dec 05 2022:
Time spent: 17m
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 970
Reviews in next week: 1302 (+332)
Reviews in next month: 1952 (+650)
Accuracy: 79.00% (79/100)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 439
Guru: 417
Master: 370
Enlightened: 1587
Burned: 4567

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Woo back to triple digits.

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Lately, my reviews have been taking longer than the blistering pace I was managing a few months ago. I think it might be due to burning all the easy items, but in any case, 100 is more of a burden than it used to be, so I decided that starting tomorrow, I’ll only target 75 reviews per day instead of 100.

Tue Dec 06 2022:
Time spent: 16m
Reviews completed: 80
Reviews remaining: 983
Reviews in next week: 1327 (+344)
Reviews in next month: 1946 (+619)
Accuracy: 78.75% (63/80)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 434
Guru: 415
Master: 374
Enlightened: 1576
Burned: 4581

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There’s a silver lining here. The fact that the reviews are taking longer means you’ve hammered out a ton of easy stuff, and all that remains is a much smaller pile of more difficult stuff! You’ve just rounded 3rd base and home plate is within sight.

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Wed Dec 07 2022:
Time spent: 14m
Reviews completed: 75
Reviews remaining: 971
Reviews in next week: 1346 (+375)
Reviews in next month: 1942 (+596)
Accuracy: 73.33% (55/75)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 428
Guru: 421
Master: 373
Enlightened: 1566
Burned: 4592

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Oops, just realized I forgot to post at all yesterday. Looks like I did 75 reviews in 17 minutes with 68.000% (51/75) accuracy on Thursday.


Couldn’t focus enough to even do 75 this morning.

Fri Dec 09 2022:
Time spent: 4m
Reviews completed: 27
Reviews remaining: 1003
Reviews in next week: 1394 (+391)
Reviews in next month: 1927 (+533)
Accuracy: 62.96% (17/27)
Level: 47

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 437
Guru: 412
Master: 372
Enlightened: 1561
Burned: 4604

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I was worried when we didn’t see you!

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Thank you for doing this. Seeing your thread everyday helps me with my own struggle.

After 2 months of WK I now start to lose motivation. Seeing this thread reminds me again, that the journey not about speed, but about consistency. As long as I do at least some reviews everyday, I will progress.

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To be honest, I’ve been having trouble maintaining the motivation to do WK as well lately.

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