It just seem unrealistic given my own experience 
I’m just immensely frustrated don’t take what I say too seriously.
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You’re doing better then me. I’ve been nearly five years and am only level 45.
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This is basically the cliche post that everyone between levels 1-6 writes. Just hold on; you’ll soon be kicking yourself for posting this and fantasizing about these good old days.
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Wanikani is set up in a way whereas when you start off you will be getting every new set to apprentice, this will continue until you get your first set into guru, now in the same length you get new sets you will start getting the newer sets into guru, when you get your first set in master you will start taking the same time it took you to get your second set into guru to get into master and so on until week after week you’re getting new things into burnt. This means that as you go on past and present levels will begin to overlap like crazy and you will be getting hundreds upon hundreds of reviews every day. Even at level 5 its starting to become a little turbulent, yesterday I had around 90 lessons (40 vocabulary early and then I leveled to 5 and got a 50 lesson set with kanji vocabulary and radicals) and over 1-200 reviews which was by far the most i’ve had in a day and was just a bit of a strange timing getting a lot of things to guru and having a lot of vocabulary that involve kanji i’ve already learned but so far most days haven’t been like that. Clearly that level of reviews will become common place as I keep going but eventually you’ll get more stuff. When you get around level 10 you should start learning grammar and hiragana only words so you’ll have something to do on slow days.
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Slow days? There is no such thing.
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There is a reason why level 20+ is called Death.
Everything comes back to hunt you, and you can quickly get 300-500+ reviews if you had been going at 7 days per level previously.
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Get the lifetime membership. (It typically goes on sale at the end of the year.) Besides being a great deal, it encourages you to learn at the pace that makes sense for your learning, which probably is not the pace that gets you through the lessons faster.
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aah this is what I came for
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Just to add my two cents, I went full speed and crashed and burned around level 40.
The best thing you can do is to keep your Apprentice count at a constant level of, for example, 100. Do more lessons if it’s lower than that, wait with doing lessons if it’s higher. Of course at the start, getting 100 apprentice is quite difficult, but after a few more levels, you’ll get there easily.
This definitely improved my recollection of the review items, and I’m even considering restarting completely with that tactic once I burn everything.
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Label your axes, yo. Is this reviews and days?
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Thanks. The whole chart feels a bit off, though. Reps should reach at least 200, and the increase and drop seem really sharp. See https://pheartheceal.github.io/anki-optimizer/ with WK-like settings.
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You’re definitely not 
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I mean you could use WaniKani reorder to do Radical and Kanji Lessons/Reviews the moment they come out and space out the vocabulary during all the down time. My money is that he/she is real, uses reorder for optimal leveling, and probably has some sleep issues or alarms in the middle of the night just to do his/her kanji/radical reviews lol…
I do not find that healthy, but to each their own I suppose.
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I have a flexible job which doesn’t require me to maintain any specific working hours, so I adjust my sIeeping schedule along with the reviews. I do all the radicals and kanji first through reordering (to make sure I get them in time before the hour passes) then immediately do the vocab lessons.
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Yeah makes sense. I guess that settles that. I tried doing that too, but I just get lazy and leave it for another day sometimes. Haha.
After two years around here, it’s nice to see people dogpiling on “The first few levels are too slow” threads is still the national pastime.
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welp, this thread just made me want to reach 0/0 for lvl 7 again. Skipping one day is already giving me hell.
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You could have always started earlier. What matters is to keep doing what you can now 
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