Do people need their accomplishments validated by you?

i would just like to say...ahem...ROOOOOAAAARRRR

yaaay!  508 today : D

Firstly, I'd like to say I love the site. 

Secondly...

Passed the 500 marker today, ending on 512.  Started my journey on August 29th.  Feels great.  I'm in love with how Heisig's method works, simply because I'm learning and having fun at the same time, two things which typically don't go together. 

I'm retaining around 92-96% so far, but this is only the beginning and I expect that number to drop off a bit, but it's no big deal. 

And to answer the question at hand, I count a kanji after it has been seen, story written, studied, written, and tested at least once.  I guess that doesn't really count it as "learned," but that's how I'm counting them. 

Onward to 1000!

AndamanIslander wrote:

I hit the 500 mark today, and I'm so into it!

I am actually also at 500... I did all the review and I didn't make any mistakes that I couldn't correct after 2 or 3 reviews...  Going strong.  Keep up the good work

Finally hit 500. Been using this site since the 25th of August.

Feels good, now I know I will complete it.

Might raise my speed a little so I can get to 1000 soon.

I'm at 508 kanji too now. So I would like to congratulate who already reached this result. And for the remaining 1500... ganbatte kudasai!

i'm at 475 right now- almost up there in the 500 club but not quite. i feel a bit overwhelmed with all the kanji i have learned up until now and i'm a little under 1/4 of the way through. this sucks

I just hit the 500 mark a day or two ago, and stopped for tonight at 570.

I've been at this with a very slow snail's pace for months because my health is not in top shape, and I get very sick or fatigued a lot of nights, so I only did what I could. Spent a lot of days (sometimes, weeks) without adding a thing, but I've always kept up my reviews.

I'm glad I kept going at my own speed despite feeling guilty in the face of all the 50-A-Day Wonders here (no offense intended, I think that's awesome :P). Once my health problems eased up a little, I was able to start crawling toward 1-frame-a-day goals, then 5, then 10. I've been at a steady pace of a comfortable 15 - 30 a day rhythm for a couple of weeks now, and I'm pretty happy to finally be able to post in this topic.

I wasn't sure I'd ever get to this milestone, so the number means a lot to me. With all my reviews, and making sure to keep my failed stack cleaned up, even if I wasn't consistently adding kanji, I've gotten pretty comfortable with RtK, and the goal of over 2,000 (or even 3,000) kanji isn't nearly as threatening as it used to be, even if I lapse back into my old speed of 5 kanji a week or something. It's great knowing I can accomplish something like this even with my problems.

Onward to the half-way mark. :)

I just noticed I have a little over 500 in the four or higher box
I'm actually at 960 closing in on 1000 in the book...

It is an interesting experience!  I went faster and faster in the beginning, until I ran into a harder section and found out what people meant 'getting hammered by reviews'
I've made sure I add at least five cards even on days that I have no motivation.  It is funny, lacking focus while learning/reviewing my first tested rate has dropped to 50% or below (30% average).  Looking at kanji I missed or flipping back through pages of the book it feels like kanji aren't sticking at all, But then I review kanji from as little as a week ago all the way back to the beginning and everything is as easy as pie. It seems SRS encounters and refining mnemonics is effective even if my initial learning isn't!

I think I was about intermediate level before I started RTK. I only picked it up because I couldn't write even common kanji from memory - very irritating when you can't even remember watashi or takai. One thing I've been doing lately though that seems to be helping reviews is looking up kanji with my denshi while 'learning' them. It's just great when you get some obscure keyword to look it up and find it is a word you are already familiar with! I even get surprised by some I 'know' but don't recognize for all the keyword and radical decoration in the book.

Finally!!!  Got to the 508!!
It was a long hard road, full of bumps, highs, lows, wow...
9 days !!
I was hoping to be at this point sooner, but time limitations with the twin girls getting sick ><.....
I had a COUPLE of days where I added zero, but that's ok, because I had such large review piles anyway, it let me catch up a little

I am doing each lesson at a time ( or in 2 steps in the case of that 80 Kanji lesson... ) and once I have it down well enough in my short term memory, I enter it into the new card pile and test them into pile 1, usually getting 100%

My first pile review % is always lower than piles 2 or 3, but I don't mind because the SRS is doing it's job, passing the ones I either remembered easily on the first try, or the ones I have worked at and know well enough now.
My success with piles 2 and 3 are about 90%, nothing in pile 4 obviously, haven't been here long enough.

I don't mind large reviews, just if I have a LOT in the fail pile I will work on those rather than add new stuff, with the understanding that I am either "learning" new material or "learning" stuff I have failed to learn well so far.

I hope I can keep this up!

I hit 500 this week. I think it's going pretty well but I'm really slow, in fact I run into problems if I do more than 15 a day. It's not discouraging me but for someone as impatient for me it's a bit frustrating.
Anyway, I'm enjoying the ride and I'm confident that I will finish RTK1 even if it takes me a year or two

I just hit the 500 mark. It took me a little longer than I expected (because of school and holidays), but I made it. Even though some days I didn't add any cards, I never let a day go by without reviewing, and I think that made the biggest difference.

I'm gonna make an extra effort to reach 1000.