Well, well… it s been less than a month and u are already complaining? He-he, just look at my dashboard)
But of course it s not fair to compare, but i guess somehow interesting.
It’s my 115th day on level 4, in summer i just decided not to pay wanikani yet and simply wait for a new years sale, but apparently about a week ago i just couldn’t wait any longer, if u know what i mean, i had to serve the Crabigator…
Is that to say you only visit WaniKani once a day on weekdays? The first SRS timings are 4 hours and 8 hours, so it’s really best to visit WaniKani at least three times a day (e.g. lesson during 8AM commute, first review during lunch, second review at night). At the very least doing your reviews a second time every day will go a long way to leveling up more quickly.
I would freak out if it took more than 10 days to clear a level 
This screenshot shows you’re almost at level up. The radicals bar is filled and pass colour, and the kanji bar just needs the pass color to reach that line near the end. Are there a few kanji you keep getting wrong?
I am not really blaming you. I know I was really lost at the beginning and it happens with a lot of new users.
If it’s a technical problem, I apologize for misunderstanding it.
Good luck!
Anyone have any idea how OP could have gotten 49 items to Enlightened in 22 days?
They said they’ve been on level 4 a month, so they’ve been at it longer than 22 days. Level one radicals and kanji are all in there by now.
Seems like there are about 4 or 5 kanji you haven’t guru’d yet. You can check This statistics website to see which ones. Judging by the colour they are in apprentice 4 right now, so you should guru them the next time they come up. You’ll be level 5 in no time!
I do it on the ride back also. I think its a simple matter of me getting them some wrong. Apparently realy slows the process. I also seem to get drip fed the last lessons after a bulk feed a the start of a level
After 22 days I just got given 2 more lessons. This kinda annoys me, I would like to have access to the lessons at the start of a level and the SRS go from there rather than drip feed me 2 more lessons tonight after nearly a month…Im going to have to guru these now to proceed. Its not like 2 more vocab was gonna hurt me 22 days ago
Yes, but its a little annoying how just a few wrong seems to slow the process down so much. More so dont like how after 22 days I just got drip fed 2 more vocabulary.
Hi everyone, Im new to this community. So surprised just how much feedback I got.
I got drip fed another 2 lessons. Strangely, I am OVER the Guru quota now (that line I needed to get past in my screenshot) and still havent leveled up.
I’ll give it another couple of days. I might start using some of the hacks to cheat getting them right from now on. I do forget occasionally but I cant afford to get penalised so hard especially when so often its just a typo.
Here are some tips from my method:
I never let memory stop me from leveling as soon as possible. So, for new radicals and kanji, I will write them down or whatever to make sure I get them up to guru on-time. The repetition up to guru is usually enough for me to memorize them, but I won’t let them slow down leveling. After I’ve leveled, I never use cheat sheets again. Sometimes I’ll have to repeat a kanji from earlier levels multiple times, but it doesn’t slow my progress.
The stories have limited usefulness and sometimes they are such a stretch they’re just confusing. I only use the stories if they are really good, or I’m having a particularly hard time keeping an item in memory.
What I usually do, and this slows things down a little, is try to attach the concepts to their concretes in reality. For example, I look at a tree and try to think もく. I try to avoid attaching the word もく to the word tree, which is then attached to the object tree. After all, I want to be able to think in terms of the new concepts. I don’t want to have to translate from English to Japanese, or vice versa, in my head.
These keep me moving along at a pace I’m really happy with. Hope it helps.
Your forum icon suggests you’ve leveled up! Maybe you need to sync the app to get new lessons?
That’s a good point!! The app sometimes needs some force maybe, especially if it isn’t up to date
Still need to do my reviews today, but once I hit level 4 I slowed down considerably.
I am having a little trouble with the kanji, and still trying to find my flow. I am slowly finding myself, doing slightly better though, so we’ll see how I speed up.
Chill out. This is uncalled for.
You don’t need to guru vocab items to level up, so you’re good to go. As someone mentioned, it looks like you leveled up, so congrats! Keep in mind that the process is to unlock items when you know all their components. So you unlock some kanji right away (because you know their radicals from previous levels) and others you won’t unlock until you guru their radicals from the same level. That’s why each level (except for some levels much later) is essentially in two parts.
Many people use the reorder script or my Lesson Filter script so they can do a mix of radicals, kanji, and vocab during lessons and/or learn items critical for leveling up first and spread the rest out for a more balanced workload. Some people also use it to help keep a steady level up pace, regardless of whether it’s a fast or slow pace.
Congrats on leveling up!
Honestly I enjoy the reviews so much because they take way less time lol. It’s like a free feel-good moment. When I leveled up to lvl2 and saw I had 51 lesson items all at once I got palpitations XD
Thanks for your help everyone. Turns out the app I am using needed to be force synced. Just a minor issue with Flaming Durtles.
