Learn Japanese.
Like a game.

初伝 Beginner

Polished copper

You have met this properly once, start to finish.

Finish the full guided lesson — watch, trace, fill in, write from memory, then read it back.

中伝 Elementary

Brushed silver

You can recall it and write it without the guide holding your hand.

Pass the Elementary trial: read it back correctly, then write it twice from memory — once over a faint ghost, once on bare paper — at 60% stroke accuracy or better.

上伝 Advanced

Bright gold

You know it under pressure, both directions, with nothing to lean on.

Pass the Advanced trial: two timed recognition questions from six options each (reading it, and picking it from its reading), then write it on blank paper — no ghost, no grid, no help — at 80% stroke accuracy.

皆伝 Mastery

Vermilion & jade

Nothing left to transmit — it is yours, fast and flawless.

Pass the Mastery trial: four tests — two recognition questions on a seven-second clock, a blind written test, and a final blind written test against a countdown — all at 90% stroke accuracy.