Fri Jul 14 2023:
Time spent: 18m
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 351
Reviews in next week: 752 (+401)
Reviews in next month: 1234 (+482)
Level: 54
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 213
Guru: 367
Master: 362
Enlightened: 1100
Burned: 6331
Sat Jul 15 2023:
Time spent: 20m L1
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 343
Reviews in next week: 748 (+405)
Reviews in next month: 1236 (+488)
Level: 54
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 210
Guru: 364
Master: 369
Enlightened: 1095
Burned: 6339
Sun Jul 16 2023:
Time spent: 18m
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 339
Reviews in next week: 747 (+408)
Reviews in next month: 1219 (+472)
Level: 54
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 204
Guru: 362
Master: 371
Enlightened: 1090
Burned: 6352
9 kanji to go until the next level.
Mon Jul 17 2023:
Time spent: 19m L1
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 345
Reviews in next week: 739 (+394)
Reviews in next month: 1213 (+474)
Level: 54
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 208
Guru: 358
Master: 373
Enlightened: 1083
Burned: 6363
Tue Jul 18 2023:
Time spent: 19m L3
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 373
Reviews in next week: 743 (+370)
Reviews in next month: 1240 (+497)
Level: 54
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 218
Guru: 366
Master: 363
Enlightened: 1078
Burned: 6374
Six kanji to level up.
Wed Jul 19 2023:
Time spent: 19m L1
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 385
Reviews in next week: 718 (+333)
Reviews in next month: 1243 (+525)
Level: 54
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 210
Guru: 378
Master: 350
Enlightened: 1081
Burned: 6384
Somehow, the morning reviews took exactly 19 minutes for the fourth straight day in a row.
Thu Jul 20 2023:
Time spent: 19m L1
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 337
Reviews in next week: 680 (+343)
Reviews in next month: 1229 (+549)
Level: 54
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 209
Guru: 378
Master: 338
Enlightened: 1087
Burned: 6395
Hereâs my review count over the last six months.
For a while in May, my review count was bouncing around near zero, and it seemed like I would be hitting zero imminently. Then in early June I went on vacation for a week and a half. This predictably caused my review count to temporarily go back up, but what I didnât expect was how persistent the increase has been.
It has now been well over a month since I got back, and despite diligently doing 100 reviews every morning, my review count has stubbornly refused to go back down, instead endlessly hovering in the 300s.
I suspect that the reason for this is that the high levels have finally caught up with me, and there are tons of obscure hard-to-remember words from the high levels which keep coming up for review and which I keep failing, keeping the review pile high.
I think also in earlier months you had more days when you did 150 or 200 reviews (eg May 13th, 14th, 25th, 26th). So even if your steady-state then was also 100/day == review queue neither grows nor shrinks maybe the handful of extra-long sessions were enough to tip the balance and mean you were net reducing ?
(You can see those dates in the review count graph, now I come to look at itâŠ)
Youâre currently burning about 10 items today, so I suspect youâre right. But youâve also added a whole load of new items in the last few months with levelling up, and theyâre probably working their way through too.
Those were the days I leveled up. But Iâm obviously leveling up a lot more slowly now because my review pile is higher. Cause and effect goes the opposite direction.
It doesnât help that the most recent time I leveled up, I forgot to do one of the extra review sessions and so did only one extra review session that day rather than two like normal. But I donât think it makes that much of a difference, especially since almost all the items I review would have just come back up again later.
I dunno, I just eyeball the graph and it seems like since the start of April the general trend is âflat to slightly rising, except that the days when you do more than 100 reviews pull the line down enough to counteract thatâ. Before April does look like a clearly different trend, drifting down even without big-review days.
Anyway, I donât want to tell you how you should be doing this, because youâve clearly got a good handle on how it works and a disciplined routine. Iâm mostly just here to click the like button on numbers going down 
Look at your average reviews upcoming for the next week - they are over 700 consistently. If youâre only doing 700/week, youâre always playing catchup. To get over the review plateau, youâll probably need to up to 120 reviews a day.
Also, I notice when youâre close to a level or have just leveled up, you tend to do more lessons and reviews in a single sitting, which causes a huge spike in the SRS system that takes awhile to level off. I know it sucks, but you might wanna pace your lessons more. The SRS system rewards consistency above all else.
Fri Jul 21 2023:
Time spent: 18m L1
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 317
Reviews in next week: 688 (+371)
Reviews in next month: 1220 (+532)
Level: 54
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 196
Guru: 391
Master: 337
Enlightened: 1080
Burned: 6406
You rushed to level up right before a vacation where you barely did any reviews for over a week.
Iâm honestly surprised at the fact that youâre surprised that this would set back your progress so much. What did you think would happen?
Obviously my review count would go up while I was on vacation and not doing many reviews, but I assumed it would go back down quickly after I returned from vacation, like it did in the past.
I think the vacation is mostly a red herring here. The real problem is just the increased review load from difficult high-level items. The effect of the vacation itself would be lost in the noise over a month later.
Sat Jul 22 2023:
Time spent: 17m
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 311
Reviews in next week: 676 (+365)
Reviews in next month: 1211 (+535)
Level: 54
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 190
Guru: 391
Master: 333
Enlightened: 1086
Burned: 6410
Three more kanji to level up.
Sun Jul 23 2023:
Time spent: 17m L1
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 317
Reviews in next week: 657 (+340)
Reviews in next month: 1195 (+538)
Level: 54
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 187
Guru: 393
Master: 324
Enlightened: 1087
Burned: 6421
Two kanji to level up.
Mon Jul 24 2023:
Time spent: 17m L1
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 317
Reviews in next week: 657 (+340)
Reviews in next month: 1178 (+521)
Level: 54
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 184
Guru: 395
Master: 316
Enlightened: 1093
Burned: 6428
Fortunately, the last two kanji I needed came up relatively quickly this morning.
Interestingly, the new level took me 27 days, which is actually longer than the previous level (24 days), despite the fact that I was on vacation for a week and a half during the previous level.
Also, the new level has an already-guruâd radical, thanks to previous shuffling of items between levels.
Tue Jul 25 2023:
Time spent: 45m L10
Reviews completed: 249
Reviews remaining: 230
Reviews in next week: 644 (+414)
Reviews in next month: 1193 (+549)
Level: 55
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 232
Guru: 380
Master: 318
Enlightened: 1091
Burned: 6444
