Regarding readings, if you hear more, listen more, rather than throwing everything at SRS and mnemonics / visualization; the accuracy is likely to improve.
Nonetheless, a way to improve reading accuracy (but in higher levels for me, like 30-40+) is EN=>reading quizzes (can be done with self-study script). You know, just treat vocabularies as vocabularies, rather than simply Kanji compounds. In this case, I would write mnemonics myself.
Looking at replies here, 90% usually looks cooler than 95+%ā¦
Caveat: I used an undo script because I have zero tolerance for typos or WK phrasing weirdness marking me wrong, and my tolerance for accurate while being a different synonym feels entirely reasonable to me and the way I want to use SRS, but some people here scoff at the idea. I now use anki mode and grade my own answers without typing because of a recent hand/arm/shoulder issue so yeah. I also read a whole bunch and have too much free time. @kosticht is still beating me anyway
My Anki accuracy recently is a little depressing though
Accuracy doesnāt mean much. If you have a high accuracy you probably went slow, have prior experience with kanji or are spending alot of time on the side studying them. Comparing accuracy with others doesnāt say all that much unless it is crazy high (98+%) or crazy low (less than 70%). Itās more a gauge for yourself. Mine has been at 90% fairly consistently.
I wouldnāt be surprised if another aspect is just time on the site. I think the higher level you are, itās pretty easy to accept your accuracy will continuously decrease, but being a higher level also means youāve been around a while and you will have seen this kind of post repeatedly already so it doesnāt feel worth it to repeatedly share.
For now, at least. Youāre at a much higher level than me, so I think you deserve more credit, lol. I think I will at least be at 94 percent overall by the time I reach level 60. I know people are saying accuracy isnāt that important, and I mostly agree. Personally, Iāll be disappointed if any of my stats ever dip below 92. Giving myself a graded scale, I suppose.
Anyway, if oneās accuracy is low enough to the point that it takes over 1 million reviews to reach level 60, I really do wonder if such a person should be using wanikani to learn kanji. Cause thatās a lot of time to spend . . .
Oh boy. I learnt this lesson a long time ago with Anki: Accuracy is an utterly useless metric to focus on in the long term. If your accuracy goes down in the short term, you need to stick to reviews until it gets back up. In the long term its demoralising to focus on because it takes a LONG time to āfixā, if its possible at all after a certain point.
Even if your accuracy drops below 70%, stick to it because the goal is to finish the deck/burn all your reviews, youāll never look back on Wanikani and say āMy accuracy was above 90%ā, youāll say āYeah. I know all the Kanjiā. Keep that in mind and donāt let these numbers get to you.
Perhaps, some stuff definitely gets harder. Itās difficult to judge cause a lot of things go into this. At this point Iāve done enough reading I get a lot of free words along the way that I already know so the high levels have felt kind of relatively easy. I had the hardest time at the beginning I think, but I get the impression that might not be common. Iām sure youāll still be doing well, anyway!
Same. Iāve only kept an eye on it (obviously things are going well here but moreso with Anki) because I think it can be a sign if something is going wrong/right with how Iām learning, doubly so in Anki since I choose what to learn. But the line I draw for problematic or not is fairly arbitrary.
I donāt think the stats shown on wkstats really mean much based on the way I use wanikani.
When I start a new level I release all the kanji at once, then I spend the next three days getting them wrong, and wrong, and wrong, and wrong, then I start getting them right. So when I have 40 brand new kanji in a review I will be really pleased if I can get 20% right.
When I am reviewing stuff I supposedly already know, like when a batch of things go from guru to master, then I usually get around 85-90% right.
So hereās the image for your viewing pleasure, I guess it kind of evens out:
The higher the level, the less accuracy Iām getting hahaha
Still, I think I remember almost everything even though Iām going fast, but only time will tell (and by that I mean once I reach my first burns in a month )
Iāve accepted Iād need to do extra study on the side to get my reading % up, but I dont wanna lol. Iād rather read or do grammar study. So Iām fine with this
Undo script is a must for me. I always spell the answer out lout before I type it, because I often mistype spellings, like typing ć when I mean to type ć”.
Itās just important not get tempted to undo in those cases where you feel like you remember the answer as soon as you reveal it, because youāll just end up cheating yourself.
Itās hard to say, if I canāt see an anecdotal evidence of people above level 10-20, having such overall frequency, and still feeling OK with WaniKani.
It says nothing about other aspects of Japanese, though. So people may still do well somehow.
I feel that the direct goal isnāt to burn everything in WaniKani at all, but to find a guided way to learning Kanji.
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