Around what is your average review score and how many Kanji do you memorize per day?
For example i memorize about 50 per day and get about 90 - 96% on average

My long term retention tends to be somewhere in the realm of 90-95%, but according to my Anki stats, I'd pass an RTK card on the first review about 26% of the time and about 81% of the time for young cards.
Needless to say, I've gotten used to failing my fair share of cards. I think it's paid off, though.

Think I kept a pace of 30-50 a day.

It all depends on your method really. I have pretty good retention on the 3 or 4+ stuff, which really is why they are in there in the first place, but younger stuff can be as low as 35-40 and as high as 90-95 depending how you do it. The important thing is being honest with yourself and seeing some cards makeing their way into later piles from the hard work. That's all there is to it, tough to mess it up, easier to give up than mess up I think ^^

I never kept track of stats. Just did what felt right. I probably averaged 25 new kanji a day, if you factor in all the 'breaks' I took.

I've finished RTK1, and I get around 10-15 on average to review a day. I usually get 90% right. The only thing is there are some stubborn kanji I can't learn, so my red pile stays around 400.

76-85%

I really dont want to know. I only know Im much better with old old ones. Ignorance can be a bliss. I'm frustrated enough that I never seem to remember those from one day ago AT ALL. Means Im going very slow..

@lanval

I had your same problem. I solved it in this way. I study 20 new kanji in the evening, then I use KanjiGym to review those kanji immediately (as soon I studied the 20th kanji). The morning after I use again KanjiGym to review the studied kanji and in the evening, before doing new kanji, I put and review them in RtK.
Score: 96-100%

I think the retention scores are not important. They totally depend on your system. I don't go for high retention rates and instead push my reviews through as fast as possible. So my rate is lower. I could go slower and have a much higher rate I guess. All that matters is that eventually all my RTK cards will be mature cards. I don't care bout the rest. I'll get there, ya know. I will!

Quote:Don't try too hard. Studies have shown that it's more productive to review material again if it's too difficult to recall. If the answer to a card doesn't come to you within a couple of seconds, you should probably fail it and review it later, instead of struggling to recall the answer.

http://ichi2.net/anki/wiki/TheTimerAndShortQuestions

That's what I do. If I don't know it within a few seconds > fail.

It gives me lower retention rates but forces me to think FAST!

I generally first reviewed new cards 12 hours after studying them, averaging about 70% on these reviews. For reviews in general, I pulled between 85 and 95 percent most of the time.

My retention was allways around ~70%. Almost never above 80%.

stoked Wrote:I think the retention scores are not important. They totally depend on your system. I don't go for high retention rates and instead push my reviews through as fast as possible.

I've decided to do this as well. It's true that if I move more slowly, my percentages are initially higher--much higher. When I was learning only 15-20 per day, I was averaging 95-100%. But when I started pushing through 70-80 every day, my retention rate dropped to around 65%. Not great, but on a purely statistical level, it's still a winning situation.

Besides, I've found that coming across a kanji in real time, when I'm reading or whatever, cements the connection like nothing else. Many times, I'll see a failed kanji that I know I've studied but can't remember the keyword for; but then, the next time I come across it in RTK, I can own it. The more kanji I can recognize on sight, the stronger my connections become, and the closer I come to my ultimate goals with RTK. For this reason, I focus on getting through as quickly as I can, rather than keeping my percentages above a certain level.

For kanji that have been in the rotation a while (my deck's only 21 days old, but ), I'd guess that if I were to just study those I'd get about 85-90% retention, possibly more.
For kanji that were added more recently, though (4 days ago or sooner), closer to around a 40-50% retention rate. This has been the case since the start, though, and I've noticed that after a kanji's been in the deck for a week or so the rentention rate increases dramatically and I start to recall it whether I want to or not. I'm like, "wait, when did I actually know that kanji?! AWESOME."

35/day, 85%+ review rate. Maybe higher, I forget. A few months now since I finished up RtK1 and almost all are mature cards in Anki.

That differentiation of 'young' and 'mature' cards is so cool to me, it makes me think of these organic memories gestating in the warm recesses of my brain. Actually, that sounds kind of gross.