Sun May 07 2023:
Time spent: 8m
Reviews completed: 50
Reviews remaining: 283
Reviews in next week: 585 (+302)
Reviews in next month: 1116 (+531)
Level: 50
Mon May 08 2023:
Time spent: 3m
Reviews completed: 14
Reviews remaining: 346
Reviews in next week: 627 (+281)
Reviews in next month: 1116 (+489)
Level: 50
Tue May 09 2023:
Time spent: 14m
Reviews completed: 82
Reviews remaining: 309
Reviews in next week: 635 (+326)
Reviews in next month: 1104 (+469)
Level: 50
Looks like eight more burns today. Presumably, a big batch of Enlightened reviews from four months ago came in recently, hence why Iām suddenly getting a lot more burn reviews.
Wed May 10 2023:
Time spent: 7m
Reviews completed: 50
Reviews remaining: 307
Reviews in next week: 643 (+336)
Reviews in next month: 1098 (+455)
Level: 50
Wow, I canāt believe itās been two years already! The massive wall that confronted me at the start has already been burned and all that remains now is mop-up. Iām also already back up to level 50, almost 51.
Speaking of which, I guruād two more kanji today. Only one left to level up, though of course, the last one will likely take a while to come up unless I get lucky.
Thu May 11 2023:
Time spent: 14m L2
Reviews completed: 69
Reviews remaining: 302
Reviews in next week: 634 (+332)
Reviews in next month: 1093 (+459)
Level: 50
This morning, Wanikani announced that theyāll be adding kana-only vocabulary, starting next week. It doesnāt help me, since Iām already advanced enough at Japanese that Iāll already know all the words, and it just means 480 pointless extra reviews to go through on WK, but I do think it is the right move for them overall, since it is a gap in the system and would be really helpful for new Japanese learners using WK.
Fri May 12 2023:
Time spent: 12m
Reviews completed: 75
Reviews remaining: 297
Reviews in next week: 650 (+353)
Reviews in next month: 1082 (+432)
Level: 50
IIRC, I had 356 reviews due this morning out of which there were four unguruād kanji (one Apprentice 4, two Apprentice 3 and one Apprentice 2). I planned to just do a maximum of 100 reviews like normal, but decided to keep going until I hit the first level kanji in order to ensure that I at least continued to make progress towards leveling up.
As it turned out, I hit the first kanji after 116 reviews (so 126 in total including the wrap-up), and the first one I hit just happened to be the one Apprentice 4 kanji, and thus the one item that would level me up immediately.
Thus I hit level 51 this morning, and as with last time, decided to do two additional sessions of 100 each later in order to get a head start on the next level. This means I did a total of 326 reviews today, the most since June 15th, 2022, and the 10th most over the course of this entire challenge.
Also something weird happened when I leveled up - one kanji was already guruād! å used to be very low level, like lvl3 IIRC, and so I presumably already had it guruād when they moved it up to level 51. Itās pretty funny to see something already guruād before you even start the level though.
Anyway, hereās the level-up chart. This time, it took me 24 days, breaking the previous pattern. Previously, Iād been leveling up in under half the time as the previous level each time, but it seems that now it will decrease more slowly.
Sat May 13 2023:
Time spent: 64m L12
Reviews completed: 326
Reviews remaining: 125
Reviews in next week: 589 (+464)
Reviews in next month: 1070 (+481)
Level: 51
Sun May 14 2023:
Time spent: 32m
Reviews completed: 200
Reviews remaining: 65
Reviews in next week: 561 (+496)
Reviews in next month: 1047 (+486)
Level: 51
Mon May 15 2023:
Time spent: 15m L1
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 104
Reviews in next week: 551 (+447)
Reviews in next month: 1045 (+494)
Level: 51
Tue May 16 2023:
Time spent: 18m L1
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 144
Reviews in next week: 549 (+405)
Reviews in next month: 1041 (+492)
Level: 51
Guruād my first six level 51 kanji today. I expect this level to go much faster than the last. Itās amazing how just a couple days in, I was already farther along than I was after weeks on level 50 (going by the metric of the lowest four SRS stages), thanks to having a smaller review count and thus the kanji coming up for review much more reliably.
Wed May 17 2023:
Time spent: 19m L4
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 140
Reviews in next week: 553 (+413)
Reviews in next month: 1045 (+492)
Level: 51
Guruād eight more level 51 kanji this morning (18 to go), as well as one of the remaining level 50 kanji, and I also had the first three new kana-only vocab lessons, for a total of 26 lessons this morning.
Thu May 18 2023:
Time spent: 19m L5
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 135
Reviews in next week: 574 (+439)
Reviews in next month: 1068 (+494)
Level: 51
Only four kanji guruād today, (and only four new lessons).
Fri May 19 2023:
Time spent: 18m L1
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 155
Reviews in next week: 572 (+417)
Reviews in next month: 1061 (+489)
Level: 51
Sat May 20 2023:
Time spent: 17m L2
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 196
Reviews in next week: 583 (+387)
Reviews in next month: 1066 (+483)
Level: 51
Sun May 21 2023:
Time spent: 18m L2
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 198
Reviews in next week: 596 (+398)
Reviews in next month: 1067 (+471)
Level: 51
Mon May 22 2023:
Time spent: 16m L1
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 188
Reviews in next week: 587 (+399)
Reviews in next month: 1051 (+464)
Level: 51