I reached 500 as well, in about 3 weeks. I've done it pretty smoothly and now i've got just about 15 that i have have minor problems with. I've had some difficulties with the last 100, but now i've got them. As english is not my native language there's an extra effort to adapt Heisig's stories when he's using odd word plays.

I've been sparingly studying japanese for years and i think this method is incredibily effective yet simple, i've never thought i could memorize so many kanji in so little time.
Time to review!

I'm at 660 currently. It took me almost 2 months to get to 500, since I'm not going as fast. I was scared at first that adding more cards will soon become too much to handle, so I started with some 10 cards per day. However, my life is pretty hectic, so I find myself adding 40-50 kanji some days, when I have more time, or just reviewing on other days, when I have more kanji to review. Usually, I try to add at least 5 kanji per day. I'll finish this sooner or later!

P.S. This is my first post! Yeey! ^_^

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I just hit the 500 mark today. I think doing this book will be important for my long term success in Japan by helping me write and differentiate similar looking kanji. Thus I will push on to the end even though I don't particularly enjoy it and it doesn't help towards my 1 kyuu studies as much as many other things would.

I've reached 500 but I'm very hungry for more, 500 is simply not enough..

550! It feels really good. I've only had a handful that I had real trouble with.  The Japanese people in my conversation group find it odd that I know so many apparently "advanced" kanji, like 警, but I don't really know the readings yet. Good thing I gave up on the paper flashcards or it would have taken me forever.  がんばって下さい！

Good job, you guys. Keep it up!  For motivation, start picking up things around the house that might have these symbols on them, food, dvds, toys...

See how many you recognize!

Throw me on the list!  Just hit 508 last night.    Took longer than I wanted thanks to school.    But finals are next week and then I'll be poundin' them into my brain after that.  Yay!

Oh yeah, I'm over 500 too.  yay.  I still go through Heisig because when he introduces new "primitives" you need to know what they are, and it's not given on this site.

YAY! 五百八 today, and it sucks, because i only realized i went over the 500 mark when i looked at the number to add it to the review thing, 8 kanji too late still, over 500, yay!
wow! i can't believe 20 days have already gone by, it feels like i just started this thing yesterday ^^

Good going everyone.  I'm up to 630 and am feeling good about finishing it, had my doubts in the 200s...

Better dart inside Harrow.  Going to get wet. 雨が降っています！

580 for me.  It's been harder these last couple of weeks because of various other things in my life, but since I've at least kept up the reviews, everything is shifting into the last two boxes, so I can breathe much easier.  I can't do more than about 25/day, so I probably won't finish until late July, but I definitely feel like I'm making progress.  Don't know what I would do without this site.  I was so depressed when it was down and I couldn't do my reviews.