How long did it take you to finish RtK 1?

anotherjohn Wrote:In hindsight I would use a more sensible Anki setup (e.g. 20m 40m 80m + 150% ease), reviewed kanji -> keyword, and used the RTK 'lite' deck to get onto the Core6k as quickly as possible. This would have been more consistent with the goal of reading.

I did RtK lite and I think you're right, I suggest the other users to do the same thing. Also if I'd go back in time I would have done kanji -> keyword, or better kanji -> meaning, but still in RtK order. In fact it two months I skill RtK reviews just because going keyword -> kanji feel a big waste of time I would spend better in what I'm doing now, sentences and vocabs. But still to review kanji by themselves make word learning faster, so I'll continue to review kanji but the other way. Not that Heisig keywords are so useful in vocabulary learning, so I'll replace them with "real" meanings (the fact that kanji is in the question side make it possible to have similar meanings for more kanji, without ambiguity).