Studying and learning are two different processes though: sur you can watch kanjis on your screen all day, but for your brain to be able to fetch them immediately whenever it pops up, it takes time and repetition, hence the SRS, the mnemonics and all that.
I hear a lot about burn reviews being the next “difficulty increase”, why is that?
Indeed, actually i really like to take every kanji and write it down until i can memorize it. I can’t leave a kanji as “learnt” until i know all its radicals, stroke order and words combining it with more kanjis.
For example: When i study 日 i also learn that i can combine it with 本 in order to get 日本, with 休 in order to get 休日 and so on.
You could say i’m a kanji maniac. 
The increase in work load is tough for two reasons.
- The sheer amount of reviews increases suddenly, because you didn’t have to do burn reviews up until now.
- Burn reviews being what they are, you are bound to miss some. And a missed burn review means the item gets back to Guru 2, which means even more reviewing.
Also, I think my brain is starting to feel pretty tired at this point: shoving 90 kanjis and 250 words into your brain each month is really exhausting, and I had a hard time keeping up lately.
WK does this as a way to facilitate the learning of the kanji. There’s 6000 vocab words for 2000 kanji. You have yet to experience this, since you only have the radicals to review for now.
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Ok. Now wait a whole week and see what you’re really retained.
yep, i can tell you’re right reading all the responses on this thread.
It depends, for some reason i remember kanjis that i didn’t write or see in months and sometimes i forget kanjis that i just studied days ago. But normally, yeah, i retain the kanji and some words within a week.
Burn reviews being what they are, you are bound to miss some
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Can’t learn if you override them all :3
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Mistakes are only for losers anyways
Wait stalked your profile and you got to level 42 in 9 Months? Nani?! Dont you need like 2 years to get level 60 but youre already more than halfway there
Which is the point of the SRS system. If you prove you can recall it, it will appear less and less often. If you can’t, it will come back more often until it starts sticking.
Of course, it is bound to be slow on the beginning, because you don’t have “old items” yet, but that’ll come.
Why didn’t I think of that earlier?! jk, ofc
EDIT: In fact, I just looked at my accuracy and it went up since I started burn reviews (from 96.32 % to a whopping 97.47 %), but that doesn’t mitigate the fact that I miss burn reviews sometimes, which gives me more reviews.
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Whenever a newbie posts a thread going “this is so slow!”, I imagine someone at the start of a marathon sprinting off yelling “why are you jogging, losers?” at all the pros
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I guess I did not answer the original question.
Based on my own experience, the amount of reviews becomes satisfying around level 8-10.
I’m pretty sure you’ll like the way WK gives you vocab just after kanji, with many callbacks to previous levels.
While beginners can complain about the vocab choice here, I think someone at upper intermediate or above (so, your level I guess) will actually directly benefit from seeing the “rare” words they have here. I sure enjoy it, at least.
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Actually, pro athletes run a marathon at an average person’s sprinting speed.
I just leveled up and have 95 new lessons which I won’t get to until I get home late tonight so those reviews on top of my typical 100 morning reviews is going to be real rough. I usually take ages on first time reviews 
You can get to 60 in about a year if you learn at MAXIMUM POWER.
That is, if you complete all the levels in 7 days, other than the ones you can complete in 3.5, which I’ll guesstimate there are around 6 of…
Yeah, 406 days. A year and a month, therebouts.
There are about 15 “short” levels.
367.5, then. Almost exactly a year. When you consider that you don’t actually need to complete level 60 to hit level 60, it’s about 360 days.
Remember, Kouichi sheds a single salty tear for each day above a year it takes you to reach level 60.
358.75 days if you really go at max speed (6 days 20 hours for “normal” and 3 days 10 hours for “short” levels)
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