How many reviews are you doing per day?

Hi!

I’m curious: How many reviews do you currently complete on an average day?

I’m about halfway to N2 and currently do around 180 reviews per day. I’m also on a 197-day streak which I am very proud of :blush:

My goal is to have no pending reviews at the end of the day.

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Average 300-350/day + 150-200 Wanikani……

I do about 90 reviews per day of each of WaniKani and Bunpro, which takes about 2-3 hours per day. I can’t imagine hitting the numbers that others are, so I’m curious whether people doing the ~200 reviews per day are spending the entire day doing them or are racing through.

For Bunpro, I try to break down and understand the entire sentence, and also try to work from the Japanese hints before accessing the English hints. For WaniKani, I read through context sentences and also look at similar Kanji to make sure I’m internalizing the differences. Maybe that’s not typical?

Haha, I’m doing overtime at work, so I’ve stopped doing new lessons for awhile. My average in BP is now around 15, Wanikani 25, Anki 50, Satori Reader 2, Fluent U 15, and lingodeer 15. Those last 2 also have Spanish. I also do a speaking session 1/wk and write a journal of at least 1 sentence everyday. Satori reader and fluent u are the ones I want to drop, but I’d go back to Satori reader at some point and I don’t like stacking reviews. Fluent U has been more useful for Spanish than Japanese, but I paid for a year, so it seems wasteful to just drop it. Lingodeer I just use for Spanish, but that’s my social obligation language, so I’m just trudging through that one.

I’m on N5 at the moment. On Bunpro, I’ve been hovering right around 200 reviews per day. I’m also on WaniKani, where I’m doing around 150-175 per day. Grand totals for the day end up being around 3-400 total reviews, usually right around 350 or so.

WaniKani is the “easy” part of the review cycle for me. Bunpro is still challenging for me working through the conjugations and such.

I review constantly throughout the day. I’m an engineer and spend a huge chunk of my day at my desk, so leave a window with both sites up on an extra monitor, and whenever I need a quick mental distraction, I’ll knock out some reviews. My average review batch is around 20-30 items, sometimes even less, if I’m feeling particularly distractable.

While I’m working, I’ll speed through reviews pretty quickly, and just focus on getting an answer. Once I’m home, I’ll take a little more time to try to read through the sentence and see if I can get enough information from the japanese-only sentence and the japanese-only nuance hint to guess at what the question is looking for. Once I have a guess, I’ll reveal the translations for one or both in order to make sure I’m answering the right question before I fill in an answer. This obviously takes a lot more time, so it doesn’t happen 100% of the time. I’m not as worried about that for the moment though, as I’m just trying to get the concepts drilled into my head and understand conjugation and whatnot.

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I do between 10 and 20 cloze grammar reviews on Bunpro, about 100 translate vocabulary reviews, and 75-200 WK reviews a day.

I’d say SRS costs me an hour to an hour and a half each day

I’m 4 away from n4 and I’ve been getting 20 per day recently. I’ve been doing 2 grammar lessons per day and I think it’s the perfect pace

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80 a day. avg 40 on the train to work, avg 40 on the train home :smiley:

180 bunpro/wanikani reviews would take me 45 minutes to an hour max. I do the reading mode for grammar, reviews take maybe 10-15 seconds each. For vocab I do translate fill-in.

I’m working through the N1 material and around 60-80 Cloze reviews (adding 5 points a day, but I am already familiar with the grammar points through the reading mode) and around 120 vocab reviews on reading mode. I usually can complete it in 2 hours depending on my focus.

You’ll usually get 10-15x the number of reviews you add daily so this adds up. I think 2 points a day is a good pace.

I typically average 100-200 Bunpro reviews a day. If I have a really slow day at work and nothing planned in the evening I’ll sometimes get up to 300-400. I added a lot of new content earlier in the year, so I am still catching up with overdue reviews.

I have a lifetime Wanikani subscription too, but got really far ahead on it before starting Bunpro. So I’ve had it on vacation mode for a while. I have started using Ringotan to further review kanji during my “morning routine”.

This may be controversial, but I think Ringotan may be better than Wanikani. I used to be on board with the idea that you don’t need to know how to write kanji by hand, but I have the opposite opinion now. I just know the kanji better now that I have to reproduce them.

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Too many. :sob:

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Awesome topic! I’m very interested in everyone’s responses. I just started a new… regimen? (probably not the right word, I mean I have a new daily goal for lessons) today, so I’m going to see what kind of numbers it results in before answering this thread.

I just hate the way ringotan teaches stroke order. It’s extremely tedious especially once you know the rules for stroke order.

I’ve found it not to be so bad after you know the rules. Even beneficial. Writing a radical the same way each time makes it easier to remember. And stroke order is meant to help you write well balanced kanji.

200-250 bunpro vocab, 105-115 bunpro grammar, 110-125 wanikani. i clear it all out in the morning then check on it every few hours throughout my workday. i don’t do a great job; i need to read sentences more.

There is an option in Ringotan to reduce the amount of learning steps added when learning a new kanji, the Learning Hints option. I didnt notice any drop off in recall after turning this to Show Fewer Hints.

I’m not sure exactly, but my average is probably around 350. I am going on a trip for a couple weeks and I plan to continue my reviews, but stop adding new things. I am kind of excited for it to go down for awhile.

I do between 10 - 20 grammar and around 130-150 vocab in the morning, then the ones I fail in the afternoon. It takes me a little less than an hour to do those in the morning, and the failed ones just a few minutes. I always try to keep my reviews under 200, more than that and I feel it fries my brain. I always try to read the whole sentence, type the answer, and then listen the sentence audio before moving to the next one.