WaniKani guides

The SRS arithmetic bottoms out near 340 days; the one real poll of finishers lands near two years. What fills the year between the floor and the people.

Every lesson books eight future reviews, so a cap of N converges on 8 x N a day before misses. The best-documented moderate pace is ten a day with a stop at 100 Apprentice.

A week away at 130 reviews a day does not produce the 900-review pile multiplication predicts; an overdue review only counts once. Why backlogs saturate, and how to drain one.

Three community scrapes show the quitting is mostly over by level 21. What arrives in the Death band is the burn wave, keyed to time rather than level - and it is predictable.

The forum has asked the same reset question on a steady clock since 2017, and the replies converge on two tests. A decision tree for the choice, and how deep to go if you do.

The last burns cannot arrive sooner than 171 days after you level, and one failed burn review costs 164 more. What the graduates did once the queue went quiet.

Every wait of a day or longer runs exactly one hour short of its round number, and WaniKani has never said why. The full ladder, and the demotion formula that doubles at Guru.

A miss at Guru drops an item two stages. Eight clean reviews burn an item; at 60% accuracy it takes 55. What that does to your daily load, and why no accuracy sends your queue backwards.

待 and 持 differ by one radical, and your memory was never given a reason to tell them apart. Where the leech score formula came from, and the fix for each failure mode.

"Flowers" for the grass top, "leaf" for a stub no radical chart lists. Why WaniKani invented its own names, and when you can safely let them go.

Yotsuba and Vagabond sit fourteen Natively levels apart, and almost none of the distance is kanji. Community difficulty grades for the usual first picks, and the grammar that gates them.

NHK Easy reads easily by level 25, regular NHK around 40. Past 50 the broadsheets stop being a kanji problem and become a grammar and vocabulary one. Scored daily against real headlines.

Spoken Japanese clocks in around eight syllables a second, and WaniKani never trains your ear. Where your level does matter: reading Japanese subtitles at playback speed.

The forum's answers span level 30 to level 60, and jpdb's difficulty list explains why: the medium runs from 1 to 95 on a 100-point scale. Where the famous titles land, Higurashi included.

By level 10 you have seen 98.7% of the N5 kanji and a tenth of what is new at N2. Coverage per JLPT level, plus the third of the score WaniKani cannot touch.

$299 lifetime against free Anki: the money buys a finished curriculum. Who the trade suits, and why December is the month to commit.

A row-by-row map from each wkstats page to the Wanilog page answering the same question, including the projections page wkstats never finished. Both read the same API key.