I go by lesson, and I rarely do more than a lesson per day. That's a pretty good measure. There are only a few lessons with ridiculous numbers of kanji, and so I would just split those in two.

I did about 45 kanji one day, and I felt it just took WAY too long to read through em all in the book. While I doubt I have any problem remembering them now, I still think it was too much, it just wasn't fun. So from now on, I'll probably stick to 20 new kanji a day. I already know tons of kanji from my japanese studies before I found this site and I can already read japanese decently, so I'm in no rush. If you have the motivation though, 50 a day is very impressive and will get you done with the book in less than 2 months.

You should just do as many as you are comfortable with. This isn't a race and it's not about who is learning more kanji fastest. So what is some other guy is doing a hundred a day, the important thing is to not give up and to keep moving forward in your studies. Also don't feel like you have to add kanji everyday. I know that sometimes when I hit a section I keep failing then I'll take a few days off of adding new material and just concentrate on the old, that way I don't end up with big stacks of failed kanji. Keep at it, and good luck.

-Luo

What I noticed: You start of very quick. You could do 50 or even 100 a day. However, after 250 to 500 kanji, any mistakes you made in your story process begins to show up. Soon you realize you need to change up your stories to account for new keywords and primitives. Maybe you find out that visual or at least visually striking stories work better than simple mnemonics. Your fail pile begins growing pretty fast and you have to decide how to balance keeping up on what you already have and adding in new items.

I always thought that every 10 kanji your add a day equates to 1 hour overall of studying. That means reviewing your older kanji, adding and testing your new kanji, then studying your missed kanji. So if you have 2 hours a day, do 20 new kanji a day. Got 8 hours? Then do 80. Eventually, you get done and move on, forgetting how difficult it was and the time invested.

QuackingShoe wrote:

The answer to any questions about how many kanji you SHOULD do a day remains the same: as many as you CAN do. Can you do 50? And take everything into account; not just the learning itself, but the increase in reviews that follow. And not just free time, but your will and drive; you can have 30 free hours in a day (!?), but you may only have enough drive to get you through an hour of review a day, every day.
If you can, then I suppose you should. If you can't, then you shouldn't.

(The heart of a former fellow victim of homeschooling goes out to you)

I second this. You should also set a finish date. Figure out how many you want to do per day. Divide how many you have left by the number you do per day. Use the resulting number to figure out what date you'll finish.

So if you have 500 left and decide to 25 a day, you'll finish in 20 days, so that'd be 1st of Aug.

After you figure out the date you intend to finish. Let every here know. Then let everyone you know, know. Declaring your finish date out loud will help with your drive to finish. After all, you wouldn't want to be liar, would you?