Attempting RTK Speedrun

I have read in these forums about people that take 9 months or so to complete RTK while some others complete it in only 21 days o.O

I tend to work quite well with this type of system so I figured I would give it a try, and see how quickly I could hit the milestones.
I also keep my motivation up and learn better when I create pressure on myself rather than taking my time and learning only a few a day.
I am using handmade flashcards so far in addition to this site only while kanji are in the 1 or 2 stacks and then graduating my paper flashcards to take full advantage of the SRS system, but with the sheer number of kanji per day, I find it necessary to review a little more at first to ge more stories in right away.

I may not get done in 21 days, or 2 months, I cannot spend 8 hours a day studying, or even 5, but we will see how I do

Any other tips or suggestions are of course welcome!

Wish me luck!

So to paraphrase..

You're going to attempt a speedrun, but don't plan on putting in at least 5 hours a day, and don't know if you'll finish in 3 weeks or 2 months...

How is this a speedrun?

He's going to go as fast as he can within the short amount of time he allocates to studying maybe?

The busy man's speedrun!

Anyway... 頑張って！ (Good luck!)

If you are going to spend 4 hours a day creating stories and doing reviews then two months is about right. That will get you about 40 per day.

I did it in two months, and I was studying five or more hours every day.

Some days I may be able to put in 5 hours, 8 hours but my problem is that I run my own painting business, I am moving within a month, and we have 2 18 month old twin girls.
Given those circumstances, I am going to be learning it as fast as I can, pretty well if I have free time I am here in my office doing my flashcards etc.

We'll see where I can get from there.

Dustin_Calgary Wrote:Some days I may be able to put in 5 hours, 8 hours but my problem is that I run my own painting business, I am moving within a month, and we have 2 18 month old twin girls.
Given those circumstances, I am going to be learning it as fast as I can, pretty well if I have free time I am here in my office doing my flashcards etc.

We'll see where I can get from there.

Good luck getting an hour in a day and your wife not divorcing you! Paint kanji on people's houses.

bodhisamaya Wrote:Good luck getting an hour in a day and your wife not divorcing you! Paint kanji on people's houses.

Sometimes it can be hard to get time in, but if the girls are in bed, I have no paperwork, and she is watching TV, it's fair game

Just as a quick note, I have ran through all of section 1 so far, the easiest section i would think since the stories are all laid out for you, just absorb and move on.
276 Kanji into at least stack 1, with about an 85-90% review rate so far for getting into stack 2.

My advice is to not pile them on in the beginning. This is what I did and it came back to bite me in the butt in reviews. I did the first 500 or so in about a week and a half and then it was a nightmare to try to keep going after that as the reviews started piling up. If you want to start knocking them out in big numbers I say wait until you get close to the end and have gotten "use" to the whole process.

30 a day should be extremely easy if you just stay consistent with it. I only take about 1 minute per new Kanji. Look at it, visualize the story, write it, look at it again while saying the story to myself, done. Reviewing takes even less time, probably 10-30 seconds per Kanji. If I don't know it right away I don't spend 5 minutes trying to think of it. I fail it and move on. 30 a day should take no more than 2hrs of your time including reviews IMO and you'll be done in approximately 2 months.

I went on a speed run of sorts. I did 50 a day straight for 50 days. (For you mathematicians, yes 50 a day would be done in 40 days. It's called taking breaks.)

There were three things that made it possible:

Consistency. 50 a day no matter what.

Routine. I made it a habit to do it in my most optimal working hours everyday without exceptions.

Get them into the SRS as soon as possible. This is probably because I was using a different kind of mnemonics than RTK, but I didn't focus at all on making the mnemonics perfect. The emphasis was totally on the speed of putting them into the SRS and let it take care of the rest.

I'd advise setting a goal for minimum study per day, for example 20 per day. When you have a lot of time to study then go for studying more, but when not, put in what it takes to do your minimum and it will help get you to the finish.

alyks Wrote:I went on a speed run of sorts. I did 50 a day straight for 50 days. (For you mathematicians, yes 50 a day would be done in 40 days. It's called taking breaks.)

If you are talking breaks, then it isn't 50 days straight is it?

Dustin,

I am kinda attempting something similar. I figured two and a half months would be fine cause 3 weeks in and I am at 780 Kanji. Some of the words are kinda odd to me since I don't generally use words like "doth" alot.

But use caution, getting thru from 1 to 2045 is only half the goal. I think the second half should be easier because most of the "easier" kanji, i haven't seen yet.

That said Good luck with your journey.

Thanks, I have to admit I haven't been able to add as many cards lately as I WANT but I am in the middle of moving on top of everything, but I am at 577 cards right now after 2 weeks

Yes, some of the words I really hate, admonish, rebuke etc. not exactly everyday vocab for me

Good luck to you too!
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