This was quite a while ago, but there are third party websites and a bunch of add ons that can tell you extra stats.
I was just about to go looking for it and link it!
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It is totally okay! I promise! This was a question and concern that I had last year and if it helps people this year then great! Don’t worry! I always find old posts that still help me from other people.
I am glad I went with the Lifetime. For any of you wondering. It is a year later and I don’t regret it. It is an ease on the mind to not rush. I do my reviews every day and add lessons when my Apprentice stack gets to a certain number, meaning I’m ready to move on comfortably. It means I may be doing WaniKani for a while, but that is okay! As long as this website holds out!!! I am at the Level now where, honestly, I need to be focusing more on Grammar. I bought a Genki book and really need to start delving more into it. Any tips on Grammar would be appreciated.
Anyway, for any of you wondering if the Lifetime is worth it, ask yourself if you are serious about learning Kanji. Have you enjoyed the first 3 levels? Does the SRS learning system work for you and do you learn best with mnemonics(I have always learned well with mnemonics)? Is the amount of money feasible? Will you regret not taking advantage of the discount(Only once a year)?
Hope you like WaniKani the way I have and choose what is best for you!
Happy 漢字 Learning!!!
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Once you get past very basic grammar, start reading with an active book club. It’s so much easier to learn grammar after you come across it in context, and people in book clubs are very helpful. Just search “book club” on here–there are lots.
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Where on the stats site does it say how long it’ll take you to finish WaniKani?
You mean on WKStats? Unfortunately, the projections page has not been reimplemented in the new version yet - and the old version is out of order now…
But you can calculate that for yourself if you want - have a look at your current level-up duration, take it with a grain of salt and multiply by 60 - that would be the fastest you can get right now. You can see the durations here after you entered your API key: wkstats
(but levels 1 and 2 are faster than the levels after them, so you’d need to keep that in mind and only look at your level 3 time, I guess)
If you want to know how you can get to level 60 really fast, you can check out this guide 
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Thank you! But…I think mine is broken. It says I’ll get to level 4 in exactly 0 everything. See attachment below lol Any idea when projections will be back up?
I just enter this thread for my concerns…
So, I started last April and got a yearly in summer. I’m level 24 and slowing down. But even if I take 14 days per remaining level it will only take me another 1,33 years. So if I renew my Yearly subscription in July or something I will undoubtly be finished by Summer 2022, no matter how slowly I go.
I really don’t know if Limetime is worth it… 
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Keep in mind, it takes about another 6 months after getting to level 60 to actually finish and burn everything.
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Yeah that’s basically the question. Will I want to do that? Or will I have moved on by then.
If you need to ask that question, then it sounds like you might not be into WK for the long haul as it is, so in that case I’d recommend NOT getting the Lifetime.
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Well, I love Wanikani, but it takes up soo much time even now.
Having more time for other stuff actually is a reason FOR lifetime 
I think you should remove your “admin” tag as this site is maintained by @rfindley and not the Tofugu/Wanikani team.
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Thanks, I didn’t know that!
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The WKStats page is being developed and maintained by a WKer just like you and me (like inspectatoro said). You can get more information and ask questions about it here:
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You are welcome. I can’t seem to find the thread right now but I believe rfindley is working on the fix. I am not sure if a timeframe was given though. 
And I was Leebo’ed by @NicoleRauch…
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It probably depends on how quickly you learn. I am slow because I cannot dedicate a lot of time to it as I work 60h weeks and got other stuff to do. So I got lifetime just now. It took me 2 months or so to complete levels 1 to 3. Most likely I will need 3 years or more to complete the levels so lifetime is cheaper for me.
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Depending on what people want to achieve, staying on after reaching level 60 is very plausible. But staying on only 6 months after finishing the lessons only gives you a single opportunity to burn those high level items. With 12 months post reaching level 60 you get two opportunities at burning them.
My guess is that upon reaching level 60 one may have burned about 40% of WK’s items. 6 months later that rises to 70-75%, and another 6 months gives 85-90%. Personally, at that point I’ll probably consider the rest to be leeches and can spend my time elsewhere to cement them. If others also want to shoot for ~90% burns they have to consider that there’s a year left to go after reaching 60.
Lifetime at the discounted price quickly becomes interesting at that point.
On the other hand if lessoning or mastering the level 60 items is sufficient for someone, they only need a few more weeks after reaching 60 to achieve that. So… it remains a tough choice 
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Yeah I haven’t checked that in a little while, and this post was two years ago. I need to go check out the stats site again 
Well, to be honest, if you have “moved on by then”, then maybe long hauling the site isn’t for you. Wanikani is for people really wanting to learn and dedicating themselves. If you don’t feel that dedicated to Japanese or Kanji, then you might not want to pay for Wanikani since you won’t be motivated to keep up. I’m not saying you shouldn’t do Wanikani, but seeing as you are in the level 20s, you’ll have to make that decision as to whether you are going to keep going or quit as you’ll eventually have to pay SOMETHING to keep it going, whether that is another year or the lifetime. So, sit down, count the cost, decide your interest in it, and really think about what you want to do. It seems like you are a good bit in, you’re farther than me, so why not keep going? But, again, that is for you to decide and no one to pressure you.