I wanted to make a chart that compares everyone’s slowest level because I’m curious. I was inspired by the wanikani for old’s thread.
Mine is 92 days on level 17.
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Slowest level of all time
| username | slowest level | time |
|---|---|---|
| Atheon317 | Level 1 | 1763 days, 8 hours |
| Maulrus | Level 2 | 203 days |
| denji | level 4 | 14 days |
| hanpt2 | Level 4 | 116 days |
| NyappyTiramisu | Level 5 | 615 days |
| MegaZeroX | Level 5 | 6 days, 21 hours |
| YoungAdam | Level 6 | 419 days, 16 hours |
| digitalginger | Level 8 | 276 days, 6 hours |
| Nishi790 | Level 11 | 764 days, 20 hours |
| latepotato | Level 15 | 58 days, 13 hours |
| NicoleRauch | Level 15 | 164 days, 22 hours |
| nemuitanuki | level 17 | 92 days |
| oribaa | Level 17 | 258 days 16 hours |
| AmandaBear | Level 17 | 120 days |
| thaumkid | Level 18 | 124 days, 14 hours |
| CDR-Strawberry | level 18 | 44 days, 0 hours |
| alo | Level 22 | 72 days, 7 hours |
| trunklayer | level 22 | 213 days, 2 hours |
| rikaiwisdom | Level 27 | 19 days |
| Lahoje | level 30 | 1435 days |
| Toyger | Level 31 | 331 days |
| Apollyon4 | Level 40 | 14 days, 1 hour |
| BigEm | Level 50 | 140 days, 21 hours |
| TobyOne | Level 52 | 14 days, 1 hours |
| Pep95 | Level 60 | 44 days, 0 hours |
Slowest level at your normal pace:
(Resets happen. Absences happen)
| username | slowest level | time |
|---|---|---|
| hanpt2 | Level 6 | 30 days |
| digitalginger | Level 7 | 70 days, 14 hours |
| nemuitanuki | level 9 | 49 days |
| Nishi790 | Level 10 | 21 days |
| NyappyTiramisu | Level 14 | 75 days |
| latepotato | Level 23 | 14 days, 1 hour |
| Toyger | Level 34 | 48 days |
| TobyOne | Level 52 | 14 days, 1 hours |
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Level 9 35 days
Level 37 27 days so far
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Keep going!! Fight fight!
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I feel obliged to say that my longest level was actually before I started WaniKani properly. 
My longest level when doing WK normally would probably be lv17 at 14 days.
Edit: Nope, sorry; it would be level 10 at 18 days and five hours.
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Oh that’s a really good point. It would be interesting to see a contrast between slowest level at normal speed vs of all time.
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Before reset
Level 53: 31 days
After reset
Level 8: 8 days
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Looking at this chart, it’s a miracle I ever made it through those first few levels But even my normal speed is all over the place, depending on how busy I am with my classes
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I finally started working as a programmer and had to study programming stuff when I came home so I didn’t have as much spare time as I used to.
When I got used to my job and could do other stuff on my free time I got obsessed.
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level 32 … 809 days. I like to pretend that level never happened (as well as the 227,161 and 112 day levels) 
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I have two fairly big ones.
Lvl 31 - 331
Lvl 42 - 231
Longest while still actively leveling:
Lvl 34 - 48 days
It will be beat this level, already up to 42 days and have 17 kanji left and not ready to do them yet XD
I am actively working on reviews daily, but trouble keeping under 100 apprentice due to leeches ^^;
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I feel you on that. Finished WK lessons a while ago and my current goal is to keep Apprentice under 50 for more than a few days.
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Last december I had a bad month, overwhelmed by reviews :o. 33 days and 21 hours. 15 days slower than the next one.
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Level 1 was a horror show for me.
Ok full disclosure, I tried wanikani on the free levels in 2013 when I was in Japan. However, I quit right away because I’d already been studying Japanese for several years so I didn’t want to waste weeks and weeks relearning things like 水 and 所. So I went back to studying from textbooks, reading NHK Easy News, and eventually worked my way up to kid’s novels.
Fast forward a few years later when I’m back home. My friend and I were planning a three week trip to Japan the following year to see all twelve NPB teams (we did the trip, it was a blast). I wanted to build up my vocabulary and refresh myself on N5 and N4 level stuff in preparation. Wanikani made sense for this, so I gave it a shot… up to level 21. The problem was I was working a gruelling 6 day, 50-60 hour work week at the time, so I couldn’t keep up with the volume. I got frustrated and left.
I’m back now though because I’ve left that crappy job, so I have the time to actually do reviews, lessons, and squash leeches.
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Does vacation mode count here as well?
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A wonderful initiative Tanuki san 
Hope this normalizes what most people experience in reality 
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Level 1 took 1763 days for me, but I made it 