I’ve actually never got something wrong but had it marked as right! Lack of experience maybe… Although there’s been a few times when I’ve typed in random characters for kanji readings and miraculously got them right.
I do pretty well as I am mainly reviewing what I have learned already. So I am now starting to get to stuff that I don’t know. I think my longest review with 100% was about 250 review items.
My stats would be a lot worse if I didn’t use the undo script for fixing my fat fingering and not knowing how to spell. I’ll probably start failing a lot more soon as I move into new information. These last two levels have been slowing me down a lot since I’m getting into the new vocabulary and new kanji.
Haha, yeah. I always type お and hit enter when I don’t know the reading, and sometimes that ends up being right…
That could be a cool thread on it’s own, although you never know if it gets a bit… messy.
My total review accuracy according to wkstats are;
Radicals: 96.22%
Kanji: 88.06% for reading, 96.97% meaning and 92.3% total
Vocab: 92.17% for reading 97.66% meaning and 94.84% total
Overall: 90.87% for reading 97.22% meaning and 94.25% total
and I don’t know about my memory haha I think it’s good, not crazy photographic memory good (Like, anatomy which is a course where even breathing in the class is about memorization, was a nightmare to me), but on WK I’m relaxed since I’m not gonna fail anything and there are a lot of things where you can pick up pieces to put back into the answrs, all of the mnemonics and radicals, with that I think my memory works pretty well
I recommend ん then, since no japanese word starts with that 
Also, love how I was too lazy to take a screenshot, but then went through all the effort of typing my stats anyway. The lazy do work twice or however the saying goes
Oh man, I’m envious of your mental capabilities:
Well, you’re like 10 levels above me too, I still have plenty of items to potentially screw up my stats.
And our reading kanji accuracy is pretty similar
I wonder why my kanji reading isn’t closer to my vocab… I guess those few random words I already knew, which were all kun’yomi (mostly) made the 4% difference?
is knowledge/practice prior-to/outside-of considered to be a cheat?
anyhow, there are good and bad reasons for that result
technically, that screenshot shows the number of items for almost 4 weeks, that is for 4 levels. for some reason, wk treats it as a single session, but it does not show 'reviews' here. if there are items which were reviewed from apprentice up to master/enlightened, then they are listed once. so actual number of reviews is.. times greater.due to postponing reviews not needed for level up for later time, reviews tend to collect into big bunches. yet the biggest one that was seen so far is ~250.
though, self-quiz for ~400 random items is started few times a week (but this number is due to FD glitch).
typos asides (they tend to happen when a finger covers three buttons in a single row… and this slows down the process considerably), anyone should be able to remember pronunciation and meaning perfectly. at some point, anyone should see 亡 similarity (or install SP script, but learning personally is more ‘fun’, which is important).
remember, that main point to get it best is to have ‘fun’ and keep it ‘interesting’ while being ‘relaxed’ (human brain do remember it better in this case) and do lessons/review when you really have time. full-time job hiders this, especially with fast pacing, but for now it is still manageable (who knows how it will be further, at ~lvl25 burns are to visit, giving a lot of load).
it might be personal as well, but the main reason of doing WK is to ‘organize’ and ‘turn to more active’ existing knowledge of kanji - and admittedly, it works. results shows that.
According to this thread, it seems that doing reviews only through a mobile app leads to such behavior. At the bottom of the screenshot it says “Your last session started 26 days ago”, so those are the accumulated results over nearly a month.
The 100% accuracy is still surprising.
Nah, never. I always get a few wrong at the beginning to adjust my expectations to a more realistic level. I never was much of a fan of zero error scenarios anyway.
This morning I’ve been using the wrap up button and I was thinking, I have a tendency to get 100% correct when I do 10 at a time. So I might have 100 reviews and I don’t know how many I want to do so I say “I’ll just do 10” then I finish the 10 and I say “I can do 10 more” and sometimes I do all 100 then but I do it 10 at a time. And I believe, although I don’t have proof, that my accuracy ends up being higher for that batch of reviews if I do it 10 at a time rather than all of them at once. But usually at least one of those 10-item sessions misses at least 1. This morning I missed 1/40 because I had 伯. I got the reading first so I wrote はく, which was correct. For the meaning, I wrote “overnight” which was wrong and I realized it wasn’t 泊! It was my first time reviewing 伯, whereas 泊 has been drilled into my brain.
There are so many things that can trip you up during a WaniKani review session. But really, most of that doesn’t matter very much when it comes to real life reading so that’s why I don’t worry about getting 100%.
I will sometimes do small batches, too, especially for lessons. I do it for lessons cause they exhaust me (so much new info at once). As for reviews, I sometimes due it to take it more slowly. It can be easier to review more bite-sized amounts of information.
I feel this. I was trucking along at a good pace and then I hit 11 and 12 and my speed drastically dropped. I can handle a bunch of mini review sessions throughout the day but the big 200 to 300 batches exhausts me greatly. After about 100 I start to feel fatigue.
I’m the same. The really big review sessions I usually break up into smaller sessions over the day.
Sometimes it helps to play the following game (and fits the topic perfectly):
- Start a new review
- Do reviews until you get a mistake
- Press “Wrap up”
- Finish the session
- Repeat and see what highscore you can get
Did 68 reviews with 100% accuracy this morning. Was very proud
I will do little games similar to that, too. It helps motivate me. I might try yours at some point.
Not bad at all! I’m not sure what my high score is. It’s possible I got something close to that once, but it is definitely a rare occurrence for me to even get into the 20s without a mistake.