Hello, I'm currently doing RTK1 and currently on frame 1274 & started sometime in June, & I'm doing about 10-20 kanji/day (20+ sometimes on weekends). Got around 85-90% retention rate/day & doing an average of 30mins/review, my question is should I try to increase/rush through RTK or do it steadily like this?

I can read kana but I'm not sure if I should study something else aside from my focus atm which is RTK. Can I start doing vocabs/grammar now or would you recommend it later after RTK & follow nuke's guide?

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So you're around 60-70 days from finishing RTK? I would stick only to RTK at that point and simply get it out of the way.

Only you can find out if increasing your new frame/card count works for you. So try a higher rate (say 15?) and see how it goes for a week.

I agree with RawToast. Don't suddenly jump to 45 a day if you've been doing 10-20, but make it 15-25 for a week and if that's comfortable make it 20-25. Trust your brain, you don't have to be perfect, but you don't want to rush it either just to keep up with all the information on nukemarine's post, which, by the way, you will have to tackle one day at a time as well.

Well I originally started at a pace of 25 per day until it started killing me so I took it down to 20. Then things started getting busy in my life so I cut that number down to 10. However, because of the slow pace, I brought it up to 15 and have been fairly comfortable with that pace. I don't like rushing through RTK--if you're frantic for time or just want to speed through, your stories can turn out like crap (or at least some of mine did). I remember Heisig said somewhere in the book that you should spend at least a good 5 minutes with each kanji. So with my pace that's 75 minutes, plus an estimated 25 minutes for the kanji that give me hell, to give me an hour and forty minutes.

Until I got to the 426th kanji in RTK, I had been studying kanji alone. I see you are quite ahead of me so you should know that studying a lot of kanji and only kanji can become quite dull and cumbersome. That is why I changed it up and started doing some Core for vocab and Tae Kim for grammar in small amounts per day while following Nukemarine's guide. I'm really only doing 10 cards per day each for grammar and vocab, and it hasn't stunted my kanji learning time (yet).

However, at the rate you are going, I agree with what has already been said--keep at the kanji as your main focus as you seem to be nearly up to 2042. Don't shy away from trying to learn a little vocab and grammar on the side if you feel you want to study some, though.

Thanks for the advices, I bumped it up on ~15 kanjis/day & havent had any troubles yet, well except for those english words I'm not familiar with (my 2nd language is english, 3rd if you count indigenous language)