Scaling the review mountain part 7 - The Final Chapter

Happy 1000 day anniversary (or something like that :wink:)! It’s incredibly inspiring to read through your journey (although I have to admit, also a bit scary :sweat_smile:).

I can’t even imagine how it must feel to be (almost) finished with something that has been part of your life for almost 3 years now!

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are you planning to wait for them to pile up again to burn them all?

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I don’t know. Burning the last few leeches would take a very long time. Most likely I’ll just abandon WK once I’m done.

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Amazingly, hitting zero for the first time after 1001 days wasn’t even the only coincidence today.

For a while now, I kept thinking about how I’d take a screenshot of the 0 reviews left image when I finally hit 0. However in an even more extreme coincidence, they just so happened to change the UI of the lesson/review counts this morning, the very same morning that I finally hit 0. And it’s not like they change it all the time either. IIRC, this is the first time they’ve changed it since 2020. I’d been staring at those same images for nearly four years!

Incidentally, I only had one single review come up again later. Maybe “true zero” is a lot closer than I thought. I was sorely tempted to just declare victory today, since with only 1 review left, it’s basically the same anyway, and doing it on day 1001 seems cooler.

Tue Feb 06 2024:
Time spent: 12m
Reviews completed: 80
Reviews remaining: 1
Reviews in next week: 371 (+370)
Reviews in next month: 823 (+452)
Level: 60

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 34
Guru: 343
Master: 314
Enlightened: 905
Burned: 7630

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おめでとうございます!
:cake:

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I’m not sure I know what this means. Could you explain?

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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Finally.
A Great Journey. :smiley:

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WOO HOO :tada: congrats!! Super exciting to see your journey to 0! Hope the rest of the journey and new chapter continues to be great :muscle:

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Congratulations!

What a fantastic achievement!

You have inspired a lot of people, including myself.

I still remember when you started this journey. I was at that point far from your level. And wanted to reach you before you leveled up.
For a long time I thought that your challenge was nearly impossible, but you proved the contrary.

Again congrats!

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Wed Feb 07 2024:
Time spent: 14m
Reviews completed: 80
Reviews remaining: 3
Reviews in next week: 345 (+342)
Reviews in next month: 829 (+484)
Level: 60

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 25
Guru: 353
Master: 310
Enlightened: 905
Burned: 7633

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Thu Feb 08 2024:
Time spent: 12m
Reviews completed: 63
Reviews remaining: 1
Reviews in next week: 319 (+318)
Reviews in next month: 822 (+503)
Level: 60

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 23
Guru: 358
Master: 297
Enlightened: 910
Burned: 7638

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Funny how there always seems to be exactly one leech that comes up for review again the same day.

Fri Feb 09 2024:
Time spent: 10m
Reviews completed: 61
Reviews remaining: 1
Reviews in next week: 308 (+307)
Reviews in next month: 834 (+526)
Level: 60

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 23
Guru: 353
Master: 298
Enlightened: 911
Burned: 7641

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Sat Feb 10 2024:
Time spent: 9m
Reviews completed: 51
Reviews remaining: 14
Reviews in next week: 307 (+293)
Reviews in next month: 846 (+539)
Level: 60

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 20
Guru: 345
Master: 315
Enlightened: 898
Burned: 7648

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It really is amazing how there’s exactly one failed apprentice item every day.

In case you’re curious about yesterday, that was different as there were already 14 long-term reviews that would come up for review after the morning review session either way. And the same is true of tomorrow, and will also be true of next Friday and Saturday if I’m still going then. But for every other day, it’s just a question of luck, whether I happen to miss any Apprentice items that morning or not. If I keep going, I assume I’ll eventually get lucky.

Sun Feb 11 2024:
Time spent: 12m
Reviews completed: 81
Reviews remaining: 1
Reviews in next week: 287 (+286)
Reviews in next month: 851 (+564)
Level: 60

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 26
Guru: 330
Master: 321
Enlightened: 894
Burned: 7655

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Light day today. They’ll be a lot more reviews tomorrow though.

Mon Feb 12 2024:
Time spent: 4m
Reviews completed: 29
Reviews remaining: 7
Reviews in next week: 314 (+307)
Reviews in next month: 872 (+558)
Level: 60

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 17
Guru: 332
Master: 329
Enlightened: 891
Burned: 7657

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Well, that happened sooner than I expected. I guess this is it.


Tue Feb 13 2024:
Time spent: 13m
Reviews completed: 84
Reviews remaining: 0
Reviews in next week: 280 (+280)
Reviews in next month: 877 (+597)
Level: 60

Current item counts:
Apprentice: 18
Guru: 307
Master: 343
Enlightened: 901
Burned: 7657

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Now you need to do the seventeen and a half different ending scenes. :stuck_out_tongue:

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897
How will we live without your daily updates now

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1008 Days Later

Well, I was planning to write a lengthier post when I finally finished, but I kind of feel over the whole thing already and there’s not much to say that I haven’t already said, so I’ll just post the final stats and graphs.

Total time spent on reviews/lessons: 330h23m
Total reviews: 90675*

  • Note: The exact review count is unknown because a poorly timed API breakage (well sneaky removal) means I don’t know the review count for one day (April 26, 2023). Most likely, I did around 40 reviews that day, which would bring the total up to a little over 90700.

SRS levels:

Review speed over time:

Review count over time:

Anyway, today was the first day in nearly four years that I didn’t do any Wanikani (not counting days that I skipped due to being busy or on vacation). It’s still a bit weird to just wake away from WK completely just like that after so much time. Sometimes I think that I should stick around to try to burn the last few items, but that would take forever and not be very interesting. My previously decided stopping point was when I hit 0 reviews due at night, and that happened last night, so I guess this is it.

So long and thanks for all the kanji.

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