I think the one that @SyncroPC linked to is the old version, which uses API v 1
https://www.wkstats.com:10001/ the newer version, uses the personal access tokens that you can generate.
The old API1 should I think still be listed in the same place of your settings that you grabbed the token. ^^
Thank you! Clear and easy to understand. I didn’t know about the default spacing. Good to know.
You’re a legend my friend. This is just the type of data I need to gamify the whole experience. Cheers.
Another thing worth mentioning: There are additional scripts you can install to make WaniKani a bit more user friendly. More about this here:
https://community.wanikani.com/c/wanikani/api-and-third-party-apps/6
Everyone has a different set that they use/like, but my recommended ones are:
There’s also an iPhone app called Tsurukame, and an Android app called Flaming Durtles, so you can use WaniKani on the go.
If we’re going with some random script recommendations, there is one that should be a standard part of WK, in my opinion:
Thanks so much! I didn’t know about the scripts. Some of those sound amazing. Especially the override one as I’ve made a few careless mistakes multiple times. I’m guessing as soon as you get it wrong once it drops all the way back to the lowest level right?
Just a question. Sounds like most of you are doing this on the web based app? I’ve always used the app for Android. Is flaming durdles something else?
You are gonna find mixed feelings with this userscript only because UGH, it’s so useful. I personally don’t use it because most of my mistakes come from a lack of focus. My memory is all there but sometimes I just need to stop and observe the Kanji or Vocab, observe it for like a long time sometimes.
I feel if I got the userscript it would make me more likely to do things like “I think it’s A” … “could be B” … “Ugh let me just say A” wrong “Oh so it was B then, ok fine, I technically still knew that, it’s fine”
I don’t think I have the discipline to not abuse it 
It took me 6 days less than 3 months to get from 1 to 11.
I delayed a lot of the vocab lesson on level 6 to 10 by using reordering scripts, so I ended up with a huge pile of lessons, which I just defeated. That’s why I needed 14 days to get from 11 to 12.
In hindsight, I wouldn’t skip or delay the vocab lessons anymore, because they help you to memorize the Kanji and without vocab the Kanji worthless anyways.
I’d guess if you do all the lessons on each level before moving on you’ll need about 10 days (± 1) for a level which is 3 levels / month.
I believe it’s something like dropping 2 SRS levels, so high level items don’t go fully back to one. But it drops with every mistake. So if it’s a persistent leech and you get it wrong more than once in the same review session, it’ll quickly be back at the front of the queue.
Flaming Durdles is an app version that a user here on the site made. 
[Android] Flaming Durtles - Android app with offline support
I think there’s a mistake here
Aren’t these the SRS spacings?
@Kinjo
As others have said ~10 levels every 3 months is a great pace.
Doing reviews at least two times per day is also important.
This community is incredible. Don’t miss the wikis and the scripts that some users have made. (I find new ones every day after more than three months here). My list of “must have userscripts”:
Wanikani Ultimate Timeline
Wanikani Double-Check (or Wanikani Override)
Wanikani Lesson Ordering II
The first one is very helpful and innocuous. The last two are even more helpful, but can also make life harder if you misuse them.
Good luck with your studies!
I can log in 3 times a day. Struggling with finishing lessons for level 5 . I started about a month ago. Lets race!
I started this the last week of September 2019, so at the end of December I was L13. I progress one level every 7-8 days. I use the site when I wake up, maybe around lunch time, and then at night before bed.
I 99% use the mobile site since I don’t use a computer outside of my day job - so I don’t have access to scripts, which is okay.
Compare to my friend who started the same time I did, I think he’s level 5 or 6 right now. He tends to make a lot of mistakes on the kanji which slows his progression, and he doesn’t follow a strict schedule, so he might delay reviews for a half day or so from when they appear.
So a realistic 3 month goal is probably somewhere in between L6 and L15. 
See it all depends on your pace. We’re not here to judge your pace, but whatever goal keeps you here since you’re already finished paying your taxes to the Crabigator.
Thanks so much for informing me about the scripts.
Can I ask a question? I’ve had a go of both the WaniKani app and Flaming Durtles.
Am I correct in assuming that if I want to use the scripts like those you’ve mentioned above, I would have to be using the web based version of WaniKani. By logging in via Chrome from my phone or desktop? Or do the scripts also work with the apps?
Thanks in advance.
The scripts are pretty much only for the (desktop) web version of WaniKani. You need Tampermonkey to install them in Chrome, which I don’t think exists for Android Chrome.
Tsurukame (the iPhone app) has functionality equivalent to some of the most important scripts (timeline and override). I’m not sure about Flaming Durtles as I don’t have an Android phone.
Or on Firefox. Definitely not only Chrome.
But if you use Firefox on an Android phone, you can add ViolentMonkey as an extension, and then install certain user scripts the exact same way that you install them on PC.
FD has some quality of life improvements that vanilla WK doesn’t have.
Quote from the creator:
wow, good to know!
If you’re struggling, don’t race. That way lies burnout.
Oh I’ve NEEEEVER done that! 
I do need it for typos though.
English is my second language + dyslexia = fun combination of mind fuck XD
I try to only use it when I knew the exact word/meaning, just couldn’t recall what word they use (sometimes give up and add my own, like Byrå, I give up on how to spell that shit! But it is the exact same word in Norwegian, we just spell it so much simpler 
)
On the Japanese I try to only use it on actual typos, when what came out is not what you intended at all.
But the temptation… ah, the temptation! It is a dangerous one, and I have given in more than once (a day XD )
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