Here I am today coming back to wanikani with a review pile of 728 wondering how the hell I’m ever going to learn anything like this? I’ve been doing this for just over a year now over and over I’m seeing the same pattern. I do well, taking about 26 days to do a level, stuff like exams come up and I…

That’s fine if you keep up with reviews. Difficult terms will drop in SRS and you will eventually learn them that way. It might actually take longer than just resetting back a few levels though, just so you know.

oh, I extremely relate. I started back in 2012… and as you can see, I’m not even level 20 yet. I really agree both with resetting as well as trying to get into a habit of doing reviews twice a day, three times if you can. I wish I’d read the guide by jprspereira sooner. I found it a few months ago …

Thanks. Glad to hear your story! I do make sure to review daily and with scripts I’ve managed to work out how much to learn so I can always empty a review pile daily without pushing myself too far. I might give that guide a review but overall I’m pretty happy with my learning when it’s going well. …

that’s good!! something I forgot to mention is that I use the anti-burnout lesson script. it’s basically been a japanese lifesaver for me, so I recommend giving it a try!

Cool. What does it do? Not sure if my problem counts as burnout but definitely can’t say no to giving it a go if it works.

essentially it prevents you from doing more lessons if your review queue is going to get too spicy [image] [Userscript] WK Anti-burnout API And Third-Party Apps You can access your scores at: http://wkscripts.nfshost.com/ Keep your API-key ready. I couldn’t get it to wo…

If you know you are going to be focusing on an exam, you can always use the vacation mode button in settings to stop the reviews piling up while you are focusing on your exams. During August to October last year I got lazy and stop doing reviews, and then because my review queue was over 1000, I go…

Lol I’ve done this a couple of times. Just pace yourself and knock out the reviews in chunks. Don’t worry about getting stuff wrong, the SRS will do it’s thing and it’ll come back to you. You can unburn things too, I had to do that to a few items. [wklevels]

Oh, cool. I use a script to show the expected daily reviews and just don’t let that go above 100, but that sounds like a good alternative. I’ll give it a look and see which I like best since I don’t know how exactly mine works it out.

Thanks. I can relate to doing it like that. I really need to get better at knowing when to halt the reviews but ideally I’d not get into the situation in the first place. From what I can figure pausing it makes it much easier to get back into but still causes the same issues with remember it.

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essentially it prevents you from doing more lessons if your review queue is going to get too spicy

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