# Wanikani Confessions **URL:** \ **Category:** WaniKani\ **Created:** [January 10, 2019, 12:11pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-confessions/34549 "2019-01-10T12:11:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jonapan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/jonapan/32/309991_2.png) [@Jonapan](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Jonapan)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-confessions/34549/1 "2019-01-10T12:12:00Z")
Time to 'fess up, people. What’s your dirty little WaniKani secret? I’ll start, because I just did mine and have a feeling other people do it too: When I see I have reviews coming up in the next hour, but I have any number of reviews already in my queue, I will run around the forums until the turn of the hour. ![ohyou](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/d/b/db6518adc1add38d01cce1333df79478bd29ec93.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![plantron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/plantron/32/783203_2.png) [@plantron](https://community.wanikani.com/u/plantron)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-confessions/34549/2 "2019-01-10T12:19:19Z")
I usually click “wrap up” when I have 51 reviews left so I can avoid the 42+ number showing up as my review pile. ---
**Author:** ![jprspereira](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/jprspereira/32/389740_2.png) [@jprspereira](https://community.wanikani.com/u/jprspereira)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-confessions/34549/3 "2019-01-10T12:26:25Z")
I’ve used the ignore button to override a wrong answer in a kanji review just to level up. ---
**Author:** ![DerpiesDerp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/derpiesderp/32/222007_2.png) [@DerpiesDerp](https://community.wanikani.com/u/DerpiesDerp)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-confessions/34549/4 "2019-01-10T12:29:28Z")
I’m guilty of this as well. ---
**Author:** ![Leebo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/leebo/32/439476_2.png) [@Leebo](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Leebo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 12:38pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-confessions/34549/5 "2019-01-10T12:38:42Z")
> [@jprspereira](#): > > I’ve used the ignore button to override a wrong answer in a kanji review just to level up. Are they going to revoke your mention in the FAQ? ---
**Author:** ![Naphthalene](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/naphthalene/32/219185_2.png) [@Naphthalene](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Naphthalene)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 12:41pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-confessions/34549/6 "2019-01-10T12:41:10Z")
I thought of doing it (I can’t remember the level, 50 something). I had already done the maximum number of mistakes, and any more would have been fatal. Luckily, I didn’t need to. Instead, often I’m not too certain about the English wording WK uses, so I check the “additional info” after getting the reading right. (If I was wrong, I just put “a” when it comes around; I also don’t care in the case I got the reading wrong, since the item is demoted anyway). That backfired once, since I didn’t know that in English admonition and admonishment aren’t the same thing. (I.e. I thought I was thinking of a valid synonym of what WK wanted, but I didn’t) ---
**Author:** ![nightsquid](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/nightsquid/32/733992_2.png) [@nightsquid](https://community.wanikani.com/u/nightsquid)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 12:41pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-confessions/34549/7 "2019-01-10T12:41:50Z")
I have done this too 😓 ---
**Author:** ![rumade](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/rumade/32/228521_2.png) [@rumade](https://community.wanikani.com/u/rumade)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-confessions/34549/8 "2019-01-10T12:42:31Z")
As I told the Durtholic priest: ![Screenshot_20190110-124114](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/9/6/96649c7ddc57386262ae71cd9cc4625df7a054a5.png) It’s on guru 😓 ---
**Author:** ![lollipophuho](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/lollipophuho/32/682187_2.png) [@lollipophuho](https://community.wanikani.com/u/lollipophuho)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 12:43pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-confessions/34549/9 "2019-01-10T12:43:13Z")
I have no ignore button, come at me. I have done this in anki though, which is why I don’t have an ignore button. ---
**Author:** ![jprspereira](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/jprspereira/32/389740_2.png) [@jprspereira](https://community.wanikani.com/u/jprspereira)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-confessions/34549/10 "2019-01-10T12:51:50Z")
> [@Naphthalene](#): > > Instead, often I’m not too certain about the English wording WK uses Ohh, I have this problem as well! I guess this is another confession: For kanji like 教, I sometimes write the noun version (teaching) instead of the “verbalized” one (teach - the actual answer). I override that as well 😏 ---
**Author:** ![Tjorven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/tjorven/32/174674_2.png) [@Tjorven](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Tjorven)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-confessions/34549/11 "2019-01-10T12:52:10Z")
When I have a very hard leech, I just push it to master by utilizing the ignore button. This way it gets into my lesson pile of KaniWani, so that I can practice the writing… this way I hope to be able to remember it better… I use the Satori Reader, but I often just listen to the text… without reading \>-\> … _shame_ ---
**Author:** ![Leebo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/leebo/32/439476_2.png) [@Leebo](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Leebo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-confessions/34549/12 "2019-01-10T12:52:53Z")
> [@jprspereira](#): > > For kanji like 教, I sometimes write the noun version (teaching) instead of “verb” one (teach - the actual answer). I override that as well 😏 I wouldn’t consider that an issue, except in cases where it changes the meaning due to synonyms. ---
**Author:** ![Tjorven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/tjorven/32/174674_2.png) [@Tjorven](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Tjorven)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 12:54pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-confessions/34549/13 "2019-01-10T12:54:54Z")
I also override it, when I got “kind of the meaning” like when I write “aggressive” instead of “violent” for 烈. In my mind, it’s important to have a good feeling for a kanji, not the perfect meaning (which also differs from dictionary to dictionary). ---
**Author:** ![seanblue](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/seanblue/32/579844_2.png) [@seanblue](https://community.wanikani.com/u/seanblue)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-confessions/34549/14 "2019-01-10T13:02:48Z")
I add other parts of speech as synonyms all the time for kanji. 🤷‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![josoi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/josoi/32/262728_2.png) [@josoi](https://community.wanikani.com/u/josoi)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-confessions/34549/15 "2019-01-10T13:04:58Z")
I add lots of abbreviations, often times silly ones, as acceptable answers to meanings because I’m to lazy to type them out the right way. For example I use “hundo” in place of “hundred” in pretty much any word that uses it. It only saves 2 keystokes, but I do it anyway. Bonus confession: On more than one occasion I’ve used a character name for a meaning if I felt they were the perfect representation of that kanji or vocab. ---
**Author:** ![seanblue](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/seanblue/32/579844_2.png) [@seanblue](https://community.wanikani.com/u/seanblue)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 1:06pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-confessions/34549/16 "2019-01-10T13:06:09Z")
> [@josoi](#): > > On more than one occasion I’ve used a character name for a meaning if I felt they were the perfect representation of that kanji or vocab. Like what? ---
**Author:** ![Tjorven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/tjorven/32/174674_2.png) [@Tjorven](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Tjorven)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 1:09pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-confessions/34549/17 "2019-01-10T13:09:05Z")
… I often add really strange synonyms to WK… ![grafik](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/d/d/dd25145a8548c907ce77fc69b62b2acdb14db7b3.png) This way the synonym is shown as an additional hint in KW. Doing this, I can distinguish between very simmilar translations in order to write the correct kanji 🤦‍♂️ I know, the user synonyms are not ment this way. But hey, it works! ---
**Author:** ![Naphthalene](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/naphthalene/32/219185_2.png) [@Naphthalene](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Naphthalene)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 1:10pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-confessions/34549/18 "2019-01-10T13:10:36Z")
> [@seanblue](#): > > I add other parts of speech as synonyms all the time for kanji. 🤷‍♂️ Takes time, plus I can only do it during review or from the item page. (I think there’s a script allowing that, but I never think of looking it up; it’s too late anyway). ---
**Author:** ![Jonapan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/jonapan/32/309991_2.png) [@Jonapan](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Jonapan)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-confessions/34549/19 "2019-01-10T13:19:24Z")
I’ve added additional parts of speech a few times, too. Especially if an item turns into a leech that I KNOW, I just consistently type in the wrong form (e.g. cooperate/cooperation, discern/discerning). > [@jprspereira](#): > > I’ve used the ignore button to override a wrong answer in a kanji review just to level up. These are the juicy confessions that I created this thread for 👏🏼 thank you JP. ---
**Author:** ![josoi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/josoi/32/262728_2.png) [@josoi](https://community.wanikani.com/u/josoi)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-confessions/34549/20 "2019-01-10T13:19:25Z")
For 全力 I used All Might from My Hero Academia. Even not as a character name that one’s pretty synonymous as it is but it fits the character as well. More recently I learned the radical 戈 (drunkard) and I used Qrow from RWBY, because he’s, well, a bit of a drunkard. I use characters as mnemonics all the time, but sometimes I go as far as to add them as actual answers. [Next page](https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-confessions/34549.md?page=2)