🐌🏖 Team Snails on Vacation 🐌🏖

fray · November 28, 2020, 12:05pm

This thread is inspired by the Race to Your Goal! December 2020 JLPT thread and by a post I made a few months back haha

Short intro on why I decided to create this thread

During my two-ish years on WK, I have reset twice, put WK on vacation a few times and I’ve taken my time for level ups. The last three level ups took me about 31 days on average. Although in the beginning I felt really motivated by those cool WK people who raced to level 60 in like a year, I have now decided for myself that I’d rather crawl to level 60 like a snail and don’t shy away from using vacation mode (hence the title of this thread).

The goal of this thread and the Team Snails on Vacation is mainly to motivate each other on our way to level 60. We can share our successes every time we level up but also share our struggles. Don’t worry about being slow in levelling up and don’t worry about enabling vacation mode whenever you feel like it! I’d be very happy if you want to join the team (at the moment it’s just myself haha) and we just take your time here on WK together.

If you’re interested, introduce yourself in a post and add yourself to the leaderboard below.

And now happy snail time!

fray · July 22, 2021, 5:11pm

Leaderboard for the Wanikani Snails (that are maybe on vacation)

This leaderboard is ranked according to current level, then speed. Speed is the time that took you to level up to your current level. You can check your level up times here: wkstats

Username	Joined At	Speed	Current Level
doncr	level 48	283 days	level 48
jacob100	level 38	21 days 16 hours	level 40
beari	level 31	12 days 8 hours	level 31
TimeStamp	level 26	71 days, 0 hours	level 28
herjeon	level 22	12 days	level 27
kusuri	level 16	13 days	level 27
BrunoCaesar	level 16	11 days 21 hours	level 27
NyappyTiramisu	level 19	10 days 22 hours	level 26
fray	level 22	29 days 0 hours	level 23
Nemuitanuki	level 20	25 days	level 22
Mahi	level 21	148 days 1 hour	level 21
emipri	level 12	26 days 15 hours	level 21
Sproingle	level 11	26 days 2 hours	level 17
Tanne	level 10	20 days 0 hours	level 17
LivingDead	level 13	26 days 15 hours	level 16
weaverZ	level 13	17 day 19 hours	level 15
kchaque	level 9	31 days 23 hours	level 12
sad-axolotl	level 8	88 days	level 11
JustJoeley	level 9	116 days	level 10
YoungAdam	level 10	25 days 21 hours	level 10
jmvm1231	level 4	16 days, 8 hours	level 10
Koffeegirl	level 3	17 days 22 hours	level 7
kaaaaaaat	level 5	51 days 12 hours	level 7
KijuGently	level 3	77 days	level 7
Elfeera	level 3	12 days 6 hours	level 6
Eshoya	level 3	17 days 21 hours	level 5
st3lla	level 4	10 days 9 hours	level 4
Sujidu	level 4	15 days	level 5
oncejess	level 2	15 days	level 2
saga	level 14	8 days	level 16
JonathanG	level7	12 days	level9

YoungAdam · November 27, 2020, 9:57pm

hello hello hello!

originally i was part of the first olympians thread:

but as you can see i haven’t exactly been keeping up with progressing through WK, haha. 3 years and still only level 10

but, i do plan to eventually reach 60, and i’ve noticed that these race-type of threads help to motivate users to progress, so i’ll hop along for this one! ^>^

kchaque · November 27, 2020, 11:05pm

Hi,
I’m a newer member, but I think my experience fits in here. When I started around half a year ago, I was intent on reaching level 10 as fast as possible. However, since the end of summer, I’ve found it to be more sustainable to just take it slow, as I don’t have all that much time to dedicate to WK.
I haven’t use vacation mode much, but rather have just been taking it very easy on new lessons. I try to keep up on my reviews at least every few days if not every day, and after I finish reviews I usually do 1-2 sessions of lessons (5-10 new items). At this pace, I’ve averaged about 40 days per level for the last several levels, with level 8 being the longest at 56 days.
I’m content to keep going at this pace for now, working my way through levels slowly. Once I finally graduate from university in the summer, perhaps I will have more time and motivation to dedicate towards studying Japanese, and maybe actually start learning grammar *shudders*

fray · November 28, 2020, 12:02pm

Can one of the moderators please turn the second post into a wiki? Thank you so much in advance!
@JenK or @RachelG maybe?

NyappyTiramisu · November 28, 2020, 12:32pm

I have no idea how these threads work, but sounds like the right place for me. I study quite a lot during semester breaks but once lectures start again my speed drops to almost zero and I just let things pile up, so levelling up takes a while. But hey, I’m not here for a sprint, and I actually don’t mind working my way through a massive pile of reviews when I have the time for it, so it works for me.

fray · November 28, 2020, 1:02pm

When I notice that things pile up and I don’t have the time or don’t feel like doing reviews for a few days or weeks, that’s when I enable vacation mode. Have you ever considered using vacation mode in these situations?

fray · November 28, 2020, 1:03pm

And of course a warm hello to you @YoungAdam, @kchaque and @NyappyTiramisu. I’m happy that you wan to join the snail team.

NyappyTiramisu · November 28, 2020, 1:09pm

I have, but usually I’m extremely motivated once I get back into studying, so having a lot of reviews is actually quite nice in that situation, since I can just hammer away at them for hours if I feel like it lol. But I gotta say, right now I kind of avoid looking at my WK front page, since having that massive number of reviews is quite stressful when there isn’t enough time to do them, so in that situation vacation mode does sound tempting.

Sproingle · November 28, 2020, 1:48pm

Team Snails sounds like a good team for me too if that’s ok! I found WK late July 2019, fiddled in free mode and reset in December with the lifetime. I only get to WK once I get home from work during the week and I’ll do a bit more during weekends. Sometimes feel pressured that I’m not doing enough which is silly. I had the Level Duration script active for a while but that stressed me out more so switched it off.

^^ Pretty much my schedule too! I like to clear out reviews every day.

emipri · November 28, 2020, 6:15pm

Hi all! I’m newish to WaniKani (started earlier this year, in January or February I think?) and a slower-paced progression thread sounds right up my alley! Similar to what Sproingle mentioned, I can only do WK when I get home from work on weekdays and try to do a bit more on weekends, but definitely don’t have time for new lessons every day. Looking forward to something to keeping me accountable to make slow but steady progress.

RachelG · November 28, 2020, 9:55pm

No problem. Got it

fray · November 29, 2020, 9:32am

Thank you!

fray · December 2, 2020, 7:48pm

I thought I would level up today but…

Sproingle · December 4, 2020, 2:40pm

You did it! I can see 23 now!

koffeegirl · December 4, 2020, 4:22pm

Hello everyone! I think Team Snails sounds like a good fit for me too.
I just started WaniKani in November. I try to do reviews everyday and do lessons slowly as my work schedule permits. This seems like a nice thread where we can encourage each other and go at our own pace.

NyappyTiramisu · December 6, 2020, 2:25pm

I’m hereby challenging myself to finish this level this year. I’ve been about 2/3 done for such a long while now, time to make some progress

koffeegirl · December 8, 2020, 5:03pm

You are so close @NyappyTiramisu. You will get there. Slow and steady wins the race.

NyappyTiramisu · December 17, 2020, 9:52am

Proud to report that I finally made it to level 20, after 61 days spent on level 19 I gotta say, my main motivation for getting back to regularly studying was having announced my goal on a public forum, let’s hope I can keep my current momentum going for a bit

Sproingle · December 17, 2020, 2:19pm

Congratzzzzzz