There should be an option to choose wanikani's starting level

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I ended up resetting my wanikani when I was at level 11 or 12, then I had to go back to level 1 and I really regretted it. Today I’m at level 6 but I’m in doubt about paying the site again to continue because I’d really like to start from level 11 at the very least, since I know a lot of kanji. Is there any way of doing this or is it impossible? It’s a bit demotivating to have to start all over again.

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The text on the settings page is extremely explicit about how there’s no undo for a reset. So is the email you need to go through. There really is no way back. I suggest you either plow through it or move to Anki.

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Which didn’t change the point that jumping forward is an often requested feature.

The hesitancy to add it was always explained with radicals mnemonics that build on top of one another. Shouldn’t be a big problem for doing the level back if you reset.

But why not add “test out” feature? You set the level and get a review queue made up of the items you think you know. If you get X% right you successfully set the level. If not you can be put onto the level after the highest one you “passed”.

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I understood the question to be whether there is a way to skip levels, seeing as the sentence with a question mark was “Is there any way of doing this or is it impossible?”

I’m not in charge of changing Wanikani. It seems unlikely to me that they’ll make any changes to their system, given that this is, as you say, an “often requested feature”.

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Going back is easy because you turn reviews into lessons. Going forward is more difficult because it’s turning lessons into reviews. What level of review should the lesson you’re skipping be at? Just Guru enough kanji? All the kanji? What about vocab? If you go up just one level, do you have an entire level’s worth of reviews waiting for you and they’re all due at the same time?

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On jpdb you can mark individual items as “I will never forget this” (the equivalent of putting it straight into the burned pile on WK) or as “I know this”, which sets it to a medium SRS level, so you get tested on it but not super soon. You could have the UI do it on individual items rather than level at a time, and warn the user if they use it on too many items in a day that they are setting themselves up for a big pulse of reviews in future.

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