This topic is temporarily closed for at least 4 hours due to a large number of community flags.
I’ve reopened this thread since we have temporarily suspended the flagged user.
-Nick at WK
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@WaniConti Can you reopen this one too, since it was locked due to the same user: WaniKani Custom SRS - WIP
Hey hotdogsuplex! Sorry I missed this, I had logged off for the night by then! It looks like it is open now. 
-Nick at WK
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Instead of expanding the typo-detection to include hiragana/katakana readings, maybe a button to mark an answer as “ignore the incorrect answer and ask again later?” It’s really annoying to see my mastery go down because I accidentally fat-fingered my phone and type “ru” instead of “ri,” or “jo” instead of “ji.” Sometimes I’ll catch it, but a good 50% of my incorrect answers are because I’m using a phone keyboard.
I’ve thought about switching to a japanese keyboard while I’m using the app, but it sounds like a pain to keep switching back and forth.
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Never gonna happen. Wanikani is a nanny state.
My main problem is that I used swiftkey as my phone keyboard, and it auto capitals the first letter. There’s a line in there to not do that but swiftkey doesn’t obey it. This means if a word starts with a single vowel I’m likely to put in イちがつ or アかちゃん instead of いちがつ or あかちゃん unless I hit shift twice to make it lowercase before I begin typing. They are aware of the swiftkey issue but allowing or catching a mix of katakana should be doable on the back end if they wanted.
Anyway, so I just use flaming durdles on my phone now because it has an undo button. I can’t change my phone keyboard after so many years I’ve tried gboard and I was basically illiterate.
If I do make a dumb mistake on the PC I just exit and start again. You used to have to dump the browser session but they made some changes a year or so ago and that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore.
I mean, if their goal is accuracy for how long it takes users to learn, or whatever, you’d think that false negatives would be just as bad as false positives.
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Yes. In fact you don’t even have to close the tab. Just press the home icon. (Same on mobile)
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I think another way to handle typo protection and prevent the abuse of an undo button could be to implement a “double enter” to confirm your answer.
If you are on mobile, where most typos reportedly tend to occur, you could enable it for your review session. You have to press enter 2 times. If the first time you notice your typo you can just modify your answer and the “enter” counter resets.
(Not suggesting this is the way to go or the best solution, just providing some ideas)
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KameSame has an undo feature for their web app, and it is limited to three per session. This is a good compromise. I think even having only one undo for wanikani would be sufficient. Usually after my first typo each session, I end up being more cautious for the rest of the session.
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I don’t find that weird at all. There are not any official mobile apps that I am aware of, so, being a third-party app, it can add whatever logic it wants. And often that means simply embedding one or more of the many API And Third-Party Apps - WaniKani Community (i.e., userscripts).
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I wonder, in the case where there is an undo option would it/could it have the opposite effect? i.e. some users end up being less cautious and rush more because there is an undo path.
I feel like there should be ways to implement this without encouraging cheating. Like maybe a second chance option where you can mark something as a typo just once, to have it show up later in the review session, but that option gets disabled if the user clicks on the screen to view the correct meaning/reading.
Even if that was only an option for common/easy typos to make on a mobile device, (u, i, and o are just way too close together on a phone screen 
), it would seriously be such a huge help.
Also if I make a typo that causes me to back out of my entire review session, sometimes THAT actually causes me to also get a do over with actual mistakes (not the typo) that hadn’t counted yet because they were only halfway completed - like if I messed up the meaning but hadn’t gotten the reading in my review queue yet, so WaniKani could actually reduce “cheating” by implementing a reasonable solution to correct typos!
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The inability to correct typos has me close to ending my subscription. This is a language learning tool, not a typing tool. Not having such a basic tool while charging money is genuinely insulting.
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wanikani could be so much better -
there are a ton of features we’ve been missing for a long while.
It has been over a year now since we don’t have the summary pages, or any continuation to the kana-only vocabs, development seems stagnant 
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A simple solution to the “oh I really knew it but I typed it wrong” is simply to type more slowly and be careful about hitting the return key