Yooo I’m back! Been taking a little break from lessons to get my apprentice and guru items lower. I hope to get back on the saddle in the next few days. Did some burns, too!
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I read the title as Tiny Goats with Wanikani, and now I’m disappointed.
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look a tiny goat!
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Keeping apprentice near 100 is a big one for me, fast levels were killing me since you can do levels faster so the count doesn’t go down quickly enough to balance out new lessons. Last week I was sitting at 300 and I took a break before level 51 (just doing reviews and no lessons) to get it back to 100. I just got back into it, and I think that should help my daily review count (which is about 300 a day for me).
Actually I think my most important one is the 0/0 challenge, which is to post a screenshot once a level of my queue with 0 reviews and 0 lessons to the thread. It pushes me to keep my lessons in check. Often times I find myself doing tons of lessons purely because I need to get it to zero before the end of the level, which doesn’t sound all that great, but I think if I didn’t have that to motivate me, I would end up with lessons from 4 levels prior sitting in my queue and not cleaning them out for 5, 6 levels at a time. I’m sitting at a streak of 31 and I really don’t want to lose it now.
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This:
I guess this makes me feel better because I’m able to put in perspective how I’m achieving “realistic” goals from learning Kanji. Every time I question myself on whether spending time on WK is wise or not, I look at these percentages and they remind that the work I put in is towards something meaningful in the future, like preparation for my first trip to Japan, etc.
Link to plugin: [Userscript] Progress Percentages (ありがとう @Kumirei!!)
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DON’T GIVE HIM GOATS, HE EATS THEM
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The trick is to keep to your regular daily amount of lessons, regardless of how many lessons you actually have, and still spread your kanji lessons over at least 4 days. That will ensure you won’t level up at full speed, giving you more time to do your vocab reviews, especially if you keep the priority of lessons at Level first.
I’m doing it because I want to level up at full speed. If I can average between 4 and 5 days per level I can finish level 60 before going back to college. My review count’s gonna go up but I’d rather it do that now when I’m free than while I’m also juggling 4 classes and extracurriculars. Another month and a half and it’ll just be a matter of burning everything
Good luck!
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Thanks, its a grind for sure! <3
When I do reviews I don’t want to make more mistakes than 1/X finished review items. I always keep an eye on the number of items ‘done’ in the review and try to reach the next multiple of X before I make another mistake. Is there anything specific that I do for this? No, you either know the item or you don’t, but I do find that when I’m ‘behind’ I tend to focus better and make fewer typos. It also reminds me to slow down if I’m making too many mistakes (because apparently I’m not fully awake or too distracted or…)
I also want to burn 100 items per week, unfortunately last week I did not succeed 
. Because I’ve been doing 10 lessons in the morning and 10 lessons in the evening since February, my burns come in at regular intervals (7~12 every 12 hours). That means such a goal is possible to set because I know I can expect them to keep trickling in.
Then the tiny progress goals… currently I’m at 25.11% unlessoned items - by tonight I should reach the ‘3/4 of WK lessons done’ phase. After that I want to have more burned kanji than unlessoned kanji (currently 546 - 570). Another week, maybe 1.5 weeks should take care of that. And then… etc
Funnily enough all of these goals are pretty much obtained by ‘just keep going’.
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