I just got halfway through as well! I had a lapse shortly before the 1000 mark, I spent a couple weeks having to deal with several hundred expired and failed kanji. I'm staying on top of things much better now, I'm almost at 1200 and everything is green. I have to review about 50 orange kanji a day at this rate, but I'm making sure to have every kanji have really vivid stories. Since I do that, I can get through reviews in about 15 minutes with about 70% pass rate. I hope I can keep this up!

I'm at 1250, made pretty good progress to 1000 but the last 250 have been slow going.... I read farther up thread that several people hit a wall at 1300 so maybe I'm just plateauing a little early.   However, I noticed the Twitter thread and started following a dozen other RTKers so seeing their Twitters should help keep me reviewing daily, even if adding new Kanji is going slowly...

Passed 1000 this AM.  Im with Machine Gun Cat , don't feel too great, considering the qualities of my stories are rapidly deteriorating.....

Machine_Gun_Cat wrote:

お前らの漢字は完全に我々の物だぜ。　
I have passed 1000, but I haven't felt that massive euphoric rush yet,I guess it takes a while to sink in

You will get it when you finish for like 10minutes ..then you will highly under estimate just how many kanji you really do know...at least that is what i do from time to time

This is my first post on this board but I've been here for a long time.
I'm finally half way to finish RTK1, feels good!

Yep, I finished 1026 this last night. with no fails in retention  fortunately.

I feel mildly euphoric, but kind of relieved that after 1000 characters, I can still remember them. I never thought I could remember so much stuff. That's what amazes me the most, I guess. watch the reviews spin, and see the kanji come to my brain, even after some weeks without seeing them is inspiring.

Now, back to work...

HALF WAY... WOOOO!

Well done everyone else who has come this far, I'm feeling rather proud of myself

Reached 1026 a couple of days ago and have today managed to clear my epic fail pile. Thanks Fabrice for such an excellent site and to everyone whose stories I've used thus far. I don't think I could have got this far without you!

Right-o, onwards to 2042!

Been there too, but it wasnt that great of a feeling. Guess since I feel like a turtle and because I have such difficulties since a long time (especially mixing up keywords with same meaning, abstract words....). Also, at first I was so fast, now that I'm so slow because of Uni, 1000 more feel like a long time

Well done, everyone!

Finally past that halfway mark (at least to the point where I've added the stories, and un-suspended them in anki ^_^). I'm hoping this last part won't take as long as the first part did though. >.<

My first entry. I'm half way through.
I hope to finish the book as soon as possible to really feel the benefits in studying Japanese.

This page is really a big help to keep going on. Thank you for all your stories!

Such terrible envy... I'm only slowly reaching 500, oh well. It's true that this system works best the faster you go, 100 better than 50 and 150 a day would be best. All the parts of previous Kanji reinforce all the new Kanji. I have great admiration for Mr. Heisig, who devised the system from scratch, all by himself and manage to learn all 2000 Kanji in about a month. Remarkable.

J

1000! Yatta!

Onwards to victory...