What is an average / good speed for leveling up?

WaniKani
#33

Example sentences feel like such a waste of time when they include vocab that I’m going to learn later anyway. Of course, to each their own, but for me personally, if I go through every example sentence, I’m going to burn out that much quicker. Then again, I started off WaniKani with basically almost 0 knowledge. so different starting point and perspective.

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#34

I’ve been satisfactory with 15 days or less. YMMV.

#35

How do you access this information?? I would love to know how slowly or quickly I’m chugging along.

#36

what…? 悪い does mean bad though

#37

my stats: image
I usually do every single lesson that you get upon leveling up in one sitting, then upon getting the first batch of kanji/radicals to guru, I do the lessons for the final batch of kanji and leave most or all of the vocab lessons to do upon the next level up.

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#38

If you asking about accuracy rate and level duration, it is wkstats website,
https://www.wkstats.com/v2
wkstats time spent on levels

You need to give it your api token.

This forum post is about it with only caveat that it’s old and describes deprecated version 1. Make sure to use v2:

#39

Oh yeah, I guess you are right. Looks like it is more like every 2 weeks for me. My bad!

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#40

Well I try to do once in the morning and another one in the evening but I rarely do them “completely”, meaning I don’t review all the cards to reach 0.

#41

Tx !
indeed I can only agree with what you wrote “make checking the site a habit”.
Actually, I have the page constantly opened on my laptop :grin:

#42

Tx , indeed I discovered the v2 as well. Great stats !
Actually I was more interested by seeing others’ stats, kind of an “average” or a distribution, to see where people generally stand, to get an overview of where I could / should be myself in a couple of months, etc.

To be honest, also kind of a motivation thing, seeing that I am in the last quarter would probably give me a kick in the *** to work more :wink:

#43

Yes Shirinai, I’m all in for consistency and agree there’s no good speed.

I’m starting my WK journey so just trying to see how others more advanced have done and taking their experience to “optimize” my learning process !
Eventually I don’t really care about the levels or the speed, since I have no objectives / deadlines - I do care about learning & memorizing :smile:

#44

If you want to know my speed, I go max speed. The first level was 3 days 5 hours (I started late in an hour), the second 3 days and 4 hours, and the normal speed levels are all 6 days 20 hours except 3 days where I went 6 days 21 hours.

Of course, my speed would be abnormally fast

#45

Hi,

What do you mean by “one skips vocabulary” ?

  • Do you mean the purple cards of vocabulary ? (is it even possible to “skip” the vocabulary ?)
  • Or the vocabulary in the 3 example sentences given for each kanji ?

In my case :

  • I just follow the SRS, meaning I learn & review the 3 types of cards (blue/pink/purple)
  • I do not learn the sentences - most are way too complicated for me :grimacing:
#46

Tx for the link, no I haven’t read your guide yet.
Just opened it in another tab, waou, seems quite complete indeed :grinning:
Just read the “comments” about the guide, so definitely I will take time to read it entirely !!!
Will be a very good investment of my time since I’m just starting my WK journey.

PS : loved the reference to Tim Ferris as well :slight_smile:

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#47

Right, haven’t thought about that. I can’t imagine skipping vocabulary just to level up faster.

#48

It is. The only thing you need to do to level up is Guru 90% of the Kanji.

#49

ok, tx, I didn’t know !

Anyway I’ll take it the easy way for me, just follow the SRS system basically.
Maybe when I understand more of the system I’ll play with it to try optimizing the experience, but for the time being I think I’ll just follow the system.

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#50

Seems good for me, I’ll try to reach this, kind of 2 weeks for a level, I’ll take it !

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#51

I recommend 2 weeks per level (about 12 items per day). You won’t need to devote hours per day and can have time for other learning.

I did the 7 days per level in the past and got burned out at 34 and reset.

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#52

I do 7 days per level now, BUT, big caveat, I actually reset and pretty much still know everything, so my correct percentage is really high, does keeping my workload low. Basically apprentice is a bit of vocab from the previous level, and current level items. Also, burns are only set to come in from early next month, so that’s helping, too. Mistakes I make at Master level are typically typos, or inattentiveness due to tv/people in the background. Or transitivity mistakes, I guess :sweat_smile: !

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