Youngest person ever

Do you know who the youngest person ever to finish WaniKani was?

Me :moyai:

On a more serious note: He can’t be younger than 14, because you’re allowed to use WK when you’re at least 13 years old, and WK takes at least one year.

Other than that, I have no clue, sorry! I think I remember reading about someone who got to level 60 when he was 16 years old, but I might be wrong on this.

Ok, did some actual research now to be more useful, and this is what I found:

Level 60 by @ekuroe, who got there when he was 16 years old

Isn’t that age restriction purely for the forums?

Not to mention there’s absolutely nothing stopping you from using WK anyway, even if you’re 8 :joy:

Show me an 8 year old who is so dedicated to learn Japanese that he does WK in one year :stuck_out_tongue: :wink:

I could make the same claim about 13 year olds, 40 year olds, or 28 year olds.

People do unexpected things at any age.

Or the oldest?

The first Level 60 post which comes to mind is this one

Not according to the terms and conditions for WaniKani, it is applicable to the WankiKani service/platform.

Hey Yamitenshi! Like mgrice said, it’s a rule for the WK forums but also included in WaniKani’s TOS. Children under the age of 13 aren’t allowed to use WaniKani. :+1:

-Nick at WK

And we all know nobody ever does anything they aren’t yet allowed to. Though I’d assume that maybe if somebody really young would post a thread saying “I’m 12 and I just finished wk, what did you achieve last year”, it would be promptly deleted by moderators

I mean they’d have to convince their parents to pay for a kanji-learning website too. I guess if it’s that or Roblox


We actually came across this on the forums recently! They hadn’t finished WK though.

Nope, has never happened, not even once!

-Nick at WK

welcome to the community!

also, i’m 13, so maybe i’ll be the one :wink:

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Nice to have you around little fella.

As I understand, it also applies to WK itself, because it’s in the license agreement for WK itself


P. S. Sorry, I should have finished reading the thread before replying :sweat_smile:

Returning to the OP question, I think @tmninja さん was quite young when they finished WK.

good to see you too, big guy!

yeah i was 13 when i finished
 yo mods dont ban me but i was like 12 when i made my account :skull: BUT i think that was before they added the 13+ thing?? this was back in like 2018. cuz i dont remember being aware of breaking any rules also im an angel child obvs
@Redglare i wouldve responded to u in that intermission poll thread but it got locked by the time i saw ur notif lol

The restriction against children younger than 13 using social media is a result of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, a US law. I wouldn’t think WaniKani would have ignored that in 2018, twenty years later, though I confess I don’t really know for sure.

I learned how to write scripts on Roblox and now I do computational research, so it’s not all bad. Granted, I played Roblox fifteen years ago (!) and I’m sure it’s changed a bit since then.