2 per week, typically. I only add new grammar points when I have less than 2 items in my review queue, and I add in pairs. Not in much of a flash card mood lately and I dedicate tons of study time to just reading/listening. just 6 more weeks to go until I’m done with N3 :v
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I learned a little bit outside Bunpro, so during N5 I did 10 or more a day, it was a little hard but not that much. During N4, that quickly decreased and I kept at 3. During N3, I increased to 5. I didn’t start N2 yet, but I’m currently considering 2 a day.
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5 whenever my beginners fall below 5 (about once a month I guess)
I did all of the n5 and 15 from n4 in 20 days. So 7 per day on average. I had already some solid grasp around n5 grammar, although even them I wouldn’t recommend. After that I did a 2 week pause because I got sick and i was drowning on reviews.
Right now I’m doing 3 a day mostly because I already know some of the grammar from n4. Once I get to n3 I will likely be working on only one grammar point a day.
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I skipped a lot of early N5 that I already knew, afterwards I was at 3 reviews / 5 vocab a day + Wanikani vocab import, but my reviews have piled up to a daily 100+ so now that I just finished N4 I’m slowing down.
I did one entire lesson per day for N5 (about 12 grammar points per day) and N4 (about 17 grammar points every day), and for N3, at first I did 5 grammar points per day, but my impatient me made me double that to 10 grammar points every day. I should’ve probably stayed at the 5 grammar points per day pace: While I did 5 grammar points per day, my accuracy was 95%, but when I did 10 grammar points, it dropped to 80%. If I did N3 again, I would definitely stick to 5 grammar points per day, but I would do N5 and N4 at the same speed, as these are the basics, and IMO knowing the basics as early as possible is important because you can get into reading earlier. I was already able to read NHK Easy pretty well with N4 grammar finished and the assistance of Yomitan (many thanks to @imsamuka who recommended me this fantastic tool, installing it was one of the best decisions in my entire life!).
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Im doing Genki 2 so at the start of a chapter i add all points and vocab of the chapter.
I studied at a language school for just over two years where we covered most of the grammar points through N1. So on most days I’ve been adding 10-12 grammar points (half of a lesson per day) depending on how many reviews I have to do. If I find the number of reviews is piling up too quickly I’ll take a day or two and just do those. My goal is to finish up all of the grammar points and have a decent amount of time to review them before taking the JLPT N1 in July.
For most of N5, I did however many I felt like doing on any given day. I ended up with ghosts and felt like I was having trouble getting some points to stick, though, so towards the end of N5 and now into N4, I tried to establish more structure in my Bunpro studies. Now I do 5 points a day on weekdays. On weekends, I don’t touch my Learn queue and instead do a cram session for everything I covered that week, and if I feel like I’m still having trouble with a point, I reread the page for it. I haven’t had any ghosts in a while, and taking a couple of days off from new points every week helps me keep my Beginners on the lower end, so I’m pretty happy with the pace I’ve settled on.
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I’m currently roughly halfway through N3 and I’ve been doing 1 point a day since January as a New Year resolution. It’s not much, but I’m in no rush. Before, I was studying new points whenever I felt like doing it - which made me fall off the wagon a few times. I don’t have much free time and Japanese is just a hobby, so the resolution helped me to prioritize it over wasting my precious free time on Reddit or similar websites.
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Did 6 a day up to n3 then i lowered it back down a bit iirc. Worked wonders since as soon as I finished n1 I started reading nearly instantly and reinforced grammar
I ‘‘rushed’’ through N5 (4 a day) but have slowed down heaps for N4. I do 1 new point a day. It’s a nice balance (with the WK study). I have a lot of trouble with grammar as I’m not really a logical person, so all these (A) does (B) etc etc is kinda meaningless lol. I need to get a feel for things but bruteforcing it (which is why I like SRS, it forces me to see things over and over).
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It really depended… I studied Japanese before finiding Bunpro.
There were periods where I used my free time to focus on grammar eg for a week I could make notes and add 5 to 28 grammar points per day (as I was familiar with most of them already). Then for a month, I would not add anything or even longer…
There were months where I would add 2/3 grammar points per day then take a break for a while.
A group of closely related grammar points that have a very similar meaning would be sensible to learn.
I don’t have a schedule (not using the learning side of bunpro), but I’d say one every couple days at most, it can be even less. Now I am somewhat upper/intermediate speaker, if I was a beginner I’d do much more in order to build a base fast enough.
After a certain point I think adding grammar point should be very slow if your objective is not JLPT but to be good at japanese. I prefer to spend my time on input/output first.
I want my new grammar to feel like a fresh new tool so it will stand out immediately and be exciting when I come across it in the wild. Then the retention will be excellent.
If I add 5 /day of course it is possible but the novelty factor will be reduced and it isn’t strong enough to me.
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7 a day, until the end of n3. Then I intend to stop learning new grammar for a while, focus on reinforcing.
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I’ll do 3 of them if I have fewer than 10 ghosts. Which…is not so often these days, in murky N2 land, but tiny incremental progress is still progress I suppose.
I do 4 per week.
I had N3 almost complete doing 2 or 3 per day, but I was not learning so I reset N3 and started going slow. Now I spend most of my study time on the Cram feature.
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Both of these you mention are going against the dopamine boost side of bunpro progression but very beneficial 
I also have done a bit of reseting recently and realised it is a good thing to do regularly, at least on selected grammar points. Just starting to use the cram feature as well, I like it it is a more objective test of knowledge.
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