Scaling the review mountain part 6 - the race to zero

Two down, two to go.

Tue May 23 2023:
Time spent: 19m L1
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 170
Reviews in next week: 579 (+409)
Reviews in next month: 1044 (+465)
Level: 51

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 127
Guru: 376
Master: 376
Enlightened: 935
Burned: 6118

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Tonight, I watched the Japanese dub of “Bring Honor To Us All” from Mulan, and was surprised to see 蓮 (hasu/Sacred Lotus) come up. It’s a word I unlocked on Wanikani last week, but it’s not the kind of thing I ever expected to see in the wild.

P.S. I’m also annoyed that there’s no way to hide the player controls on Youtube in order to take a clean screenshot while the video is paused. The controls disappear after a while while the video is playing, but they never go away as long as it is paused, like if you’re trying to take a screenshot of a specific moment.

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Only one kanji to go! Also, accidentally did 101 reviews today instead of 100.

Wed May 24 2023:
Time spent: 15m L1
Reviews completed: 101
Reviews remaining: 167
Reviews in next week: 560 (+393)
Reviews in next month: 1039 (+479)
Level: 51

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 121
Guru: 383
Master: 372
Enlightened: 933
Burned: 6125

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Get the Chrome extension “hyde”, which should work in all Chromium based browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera etc). If you are using Microsoft Edge, remap the keybind to CTRL+N (the default CTRL+M will mute the tab instead of hide the overlay). Now you can take tidy screenshots of YT :slight_smile:

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New level up!

According to WKStats, I leveled up in only 12 days, the first time I leveled up in below average time and the first time it didn’t go off the top of the chart (and also exactly half my last level up at 24 days). This reduced my average from 19 days and 11 hours to 19 days and 7 hours. I think my next level up will probably take longer than 12 days, but maybe not that much longer unless I end up leaving WK alone during vacation.

Thu May 25 2023:
Time spent: 42m L11
Reviews completed: 222
Reviews remaining: 115
Reviews in next week: 549 (+434)
Reviews in next month: 1061 (+512)
Level: 52

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 163
Guru: 384
Master: 355
Enlightened: 944
Burned: 6135

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Fri May 26 2023:
Time spent: 28m
Reviews completed: 200
Reviews remaining: 48
Reviews in next week: 503 (+455)
Reviews in next month: 1047 (+544)
Level: 52

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 160
Guru: 377
Master: 360
Enlightened: 944
Burned: 6142

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Holy…. Only 48 left??? You so got this. :slight_smile:

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Sat May 27 2023:
Time spent: 15m
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 111
Reviews in next week: 507 (+396)
Reviews in next month: 1051 (+544)
Level: 52

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 157
Guru: 369
Master: 368
Enlightened: 946
Burned: 6143

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Sun May 28 2023:
Time spent: 15m
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 135
Reviews in next week: 495 (+360)
Reviews in next month: 1058 (+563)
Level: 52

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 148
Guru: 363
Master: 379
Enlightened: 950
Burned: 6143

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Mon May 29 2023:
Time spent: 19m L6
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 145
Reviews in next week: 503 (+358)
Reviews in next month: 1070 (+567)
Level: 52

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 145
Guru: 375
Master: 377
Enlightened: 959
Burned: 6149

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Tue May 30 2023:
Time spent: 24m L6
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 174
Reviews in next week: 536 (+362)
Reviews in next month: 1096 (+560)
Level: 52

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 153
Guru: 394
Master: 378
Enlightened: 964
Burned: 6150

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Wed May 31 2023:
Time spent: 17m L1
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 168
Reviews in next week: 535 (+367)
Reviews in next month: 1098 (+563)
Level: 52

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 145
Guru: 400
Master: 378
Enlightened: 969
Burned: 6153

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Thu Jun 01 2023:
Time spent: 20m L5
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 201
Reviews in next week: 583 (+382)
Reviews in next month: 1128 (+545)
Level: 52

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 159
Guru: 406
Master: 378
Enlightened: 975
Burned: 6155

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Today I did 100/236 reviews and only 1 out of 9 level kanji came up for review, so that was pretty disappointing. It looks like the odds of that happening are only 5%. Pretty unlikely, but not impossible, and 5% chances will come up every three weeks on average.

Fri Jun 02 2023:
Time spent: 17m L1
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 191
Reviews in next week: 600 (+409)
Reviews in next month: 1132 (+532)
Level: 52

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 160
Guru: 408
Master: 373
Enlightened: 977
Burned: 6160

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This morning, I missed 惰 (I think this is the first time I missed a level-up kanji in weeks), so I decided to cheat and ended the session immediately at only 44 reviews so that the miss wouldn’t register.

In the second session, I considered just doing 56 reviews (to bring the total to 100 for the day), but decided to go all the way to 100 (for a total of 144) in order to try to improve the odds of leveling up tomorrow morning so I can level up before I go on vacation.

I ran the odds, and it looks like I’ll have a 23% chance of leveling up tomorrow morning if I do 100 reviews like normal, so I’m currently thinking that I’ll just go ahead and keep doing reviews until I level up. Most likely it will take 150 or so.

Sat Jun 03 2023:
Time spent: 29m L2
Reviews completed: 144
Reviews remaining: 157
Reviews in next week: 581 (+424)
Reviews in next month: 1126 (+545)
Level: 52

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 158
Guru: 412
Master: 362
Enlightened: 987
Burned: 6166

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Completely your choice - but if you aren’t planning to do reviews while on vacation, may be best not to do the new lessons when you level up? And activate vacation mode?

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Man, that graphic in your original post is nightmare-fuel. I like this challenge. Good luck to you!

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As planned, I continued doing reviews until I leveled up this morning, which took 145 reviews (and thus 155 after wrap-up).

It looks like I actually leveled up two days faster this time than last, but to be fair, that’s only because I rushed through it in order to level up before I go on vacation. Also, I had to cheat on one of the reviews this time.

Sun Jun 04 2023:
Time spent: 57m L11
Reviews completed: 355
Reviews remaining: 47
Reviews in next week: 598 (+551)
Reviews in next month: 1165 (+567)
Level: 53

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 209
Guru: 406
Master: 358
Enlightened: 999
Burned: 6174

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So close! :heart:

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I’m going on vacation for a little over a week starting tomorrow, so I’m not sure how many reviews I’m going to be doing.

Mon Jun 05 2023:
Time spent: 27m
Reviews completed: 200
Reviews remaining: 67
Reviews in next week: 612 (+545)
Reviews in next month: 1158 (+546)
Level: 53

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 204
Guru: 408
Master: 352
Enlightened: 1010
Burned: 6174

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