Well, I prefer to celebrate when I learn a hundred in a day, like on the weekends.  It's as Humpty Dumpty said, we must make words do what we say, and pay them appropriately.

Congratulations!
Just hit Kanji 2000 fifteen minutes ago. My third try in three years, and finally I'm about to  conquer all these Kanjis.

Yeah, hitting the milestones a second or third time just feels as good. And I can't wait for RTK3. You do feel invincible while studying kanjis the Heisig way.

im finaly back at the 1300 point where i was when i stopped the heisig method for a year, it feels good that it toke not that much effort, shows that even after a year forgetting things its easy to re-learn them.

Yep its good hitting milestones isn't it.

I found the push from 500 to 700 to be difficult, I guess because that's when Heisig's stories really ran out and it takes some getting used to.  After that it was easy, until the last few chapters.

For me it was like:

1000 - Yay, its all downhill from here.
1500 - Yes! There's no way I won't finish this now.
1800 - Oh cr*p these are some hard chapters near the end.
2042 - Euphoria .

I'm so sad, I haven't reached the 500 kanjis milestone yet, I only have 497 today More seriously, I don't visualize milestones as a big thing because I feel that it would distract me from my first real milestone : finishing the first book, but it sure helps when I need some motivation

I broke 500 recently too.  Hit a tough patch around the 400 mark.  I definitely had to learn how to pace myself.  But once you get in a good flow, I really like this method of learning. See you at 1000.

vosmiura wrote:

I found the push from 500 to 700 to be difficult, I guess because that's when Heisig's stories really ran out and it takes some getting used to.  After that it was easy, until the last few chapters.

I noticed the same and was stuck for a loooooong while somewhere between the frames 650 - 700. Now I finally got the tempo back and passed 800 a couple of days ago. That huge chapter of 130 characters was quite a hurdle for me but now it's getting easier again.
Finally reached the downhill! Weee!!! ^_^

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I absolutely loved this page:

http://kanji.koohii.com/progress.php

I'm the kind of guy that refuses to put down a book except at the end of a chapter, so my milestones were the lessons. I felt that surge of giddiness every time I took care of another lesson box. RTK can be really satisfying at times

Zarxrax wrote:

I hit a slump around 400-500 also, but once I got up to about 600, It feels like things have really started to kick into high gear. Once heisig stopped writing stories for all the kanji, I just seem to move a lot faster now. I guess maybe I was spending a lot of time focusing on his stories and analyzing what he had written about them. I guess now that I don't have to do that, I can just find a story I like, and move on a lot quicker. I'm just about to finish the longest chapter in the book (the one with 130 kanji), and this feels like it will be the big moment for me, as it will all be downhill from here

We have a lot in common.  I just finished the long 130 kanji chapter this morning, so it looks like we are at exactly the same point.  I also feel that I move faster now that Heisig has stopped writing stories for me.

I lagged a bit around 600 or so.  The chapter with all the "heart" kanjis was tough for me because all of the keywords were so abstract that it was hard for me to make up good stories for them.  Once I hit "hands" and "fingers" it got a lot easier.  Severed fingers are so easy to work with

500 was great! just passed 600...  ^_^  1000 doesn't seem so far away!!

Hey, I started this thread back in February and I'm hitting 1000 today!

Double-ROOOOOOOARRRR with a backflip and a cherry on top!!

Here's what I find...

I've stopped thinking about it. I don't question the process, or how fast or easy it's gotten, or how long it takes or will take or might take. None of that.

I just do it. Out of pure, routine-driven habit. It's part of my routine. Alarm, breakfast, shower, kanji, out-the-door for work. I don't feel like it takes any more motivation or self-discipline than remembering to shave each day. A groove.

I'm not going fast. (Then, I do just half-an-hour a day.) But I *know* I will finish. In fact, I strongly suspect I will blow past 2042 and straight into RTK3 kanjis, because I dread the thought of having this little part of my routine taken away.

Slow and steady wins the race...

I feel like a lot of people in these forums post about how good RTK is for learning to remember things in general, or for imagination, or whatever. But I find that what it's really taught me is habit formation: that you *can* form a habit on purpose, and once you have it's harder to stop than to keep going. Now *that's* valuable.

Roarrr! 577!

Lets aim for the 1000 now!