Its not hard at all champ. Just had a problem with my app. Everyone helped and it culminated in great advice solving the problem. Enjoy your firehose bro 
Thank again to everyone that helped. Just got 60 new lessons, time to bust on ahead.
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Perhaps this has already been addressed in the thread, I’ve no idea, I just have to respond now…
My average level-up time is just over 3 weeks, but I am not lazy, and nor do I slack off. I study Japanese for about 3 or 4 hours every day, sometimes more, and have done so consistently (apart from during my summer holiday this year) for over two years.
Telling people who struggle with learning a language (actually, what am I talking about, you’ll find plenty of people take about the same time to level up as I do) that they are lazy or slackers is not helpful and certainly not polite.
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Hello. Actually you are not wasting your time. What I have realized is that Wanikani is useful because of the way they arranged the kanji and the system they use to teach you vocabulary. Dont worry to much if you dont get the goal that honestly seem to be just an advertisement like many products around the market. Actually, chinese and japanese people never master all of them and nowadays, they tend to forget them while writing. The best thing I can recommend you to strength your level is read japanese texts where you can find the same words a lot of times, such a manual or a recipe book. Believe me, you will learn them one way or another by heart and easily recall them when you see them.
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I guess people can’t handle criticism, my bad I was on the wrong website.
I was mainly addressing those that use only WK and take forever to level up and never reach lvl 60.
If you have a study plan, there is no problem with that. In fact, I don’t even do 4 hours a day so that makes me lazier than you 
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Have you reset from 60, or did you take a huge break?
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I never reached level 60 lol, I would never reset.
So you took a huge break, then?
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I think many take longer than 2 weeks, not out of laziness, but often things come up in between and it takes some time to get back into things! Or not even this, some people just have a better memory than others. Maybe some have a job or studies that take a lot of effort in terms of memorization already.
Tone doesn’t carry well over the internet, so I think this is just a bit of a miscommunication. I feel like you didn’t mean to criticise anyone, you were just saying that leveling up around every two weeks seems like a reasonable average right? 
In the end I think we all agree that everyone has their own tempo, and everyone knows for themselves what the best tempo for them is.
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I was getting 8/9-day levels, I was so proud. 
My last two finished levels are 15 and 30 days. .-.
Though that’s because I stopped doing lessons/reviews. Still sucks.
At least it hasn’t affected my average that much. u_u
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To be fair, calling people lazy based on their WaniKani speed alone is kind of dumb criticism 
But since we’re already out dealing punches: I guess people cant admit even they sometimes say things that are just wrong
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It takes time. It also depends on how often you are doing your reviews and using the Spaced Repetition system. Level 4 wasn’t a problem for me. Level 5 however took me FOREVER. And the level I just completed last night, 9, took me forever!! Keep at it. Make sure you do your reviews. Don’t add too much too fast if you aren’t getting what you already have.
How many times a day do you do WaniKani? Depending on which you get wrong and how many it pushes you back.
I hope you make progress. Also, do what I did and take advantage of the yearly discount this winter for Lifetime Subscription!
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I use flaming durtles and I haven’t had to force sync ever. Only started using it last level, though. Hopefully it’ll go right next level!
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Yeah, I feel like this is something that @ejplugge should hear about
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I only have about 30 minutes every weekday to do reviews and lessons so it takes me about a month or two to level up which means that I can only do 3-6 lessons a day at most. Worst case just buy the lifetime as soon as you’re able to
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The level-up detection in Flaming Durtles is solid by now, and the hourly automatic sync would have soon caught up anyway.
Based on a quick scroll back in this topic, I’m fairly sure HDshrimpkick still had an open session in the app. Finishing a session where a subject passes always triggers an extra sync exactly to catch this kind of situation, but if the session is kept open the app won’t catch up until the hourly sync.
@HDshrimpkick, welcome to level 5 
. If you’d like me to check out what happened in more detail, you can try to upload your debug log in the settings menu, or drop by in the support thread if you have any problems with the app in the future: [Android] Flaming Durtles - Android app with offline support
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I don’t understand why you ask if I took a huge break.
I was curious about your reason for not being level 60 after you started using WaniKani 2 years ago.
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Ahhhhh I get it now. It’s because I created an account just to check WK but I never used it. I would have been the biggest hypocrite if I wasn’t 60 after 2 years. However, I have some levels that took more than 14 days and that’s mainly because of laziness(for example level 8 here).
When I mentioned the thing about laziness it was because I know it from experience, I wasn’t necessarily judging one person in particular. I also have a very busy life. We are all busy. However, finding 1-2 hours every day isn’t impossible especially when people spend way more than that on social media and Netflix.
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You did take a huge break then, nothing to worry about.
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