Can people share what have been their average words learned count ?

I learned about 600 characters before I started Skritter. Currently I manually add about 20 characters per day until my character writing catches up with my character recognition learning. Then I'll probably stabilize at about 10 characters per day, and start adding in words from the HSK list. Doing that I'm currently hovering at about a 80% retention rate.

My stats say that I've added 404 characters, and learned 415. Not sure how that happened.

Exactly which "Average Words Learned" stat are you referring to?

I've been averaging roughly 10 per day for awhile, studying 40 skritter minutes per day.

It depends on how much time I can spend on Skritter, but I've noticed that on days when I manage to put in an hour, I'm learning between 8 and 12 new words per day.

Interestingly, if you look at the top learners in the newsletter, they also seem to have a similar average (but spend a lot more time!).

It's easy to learn many new words a day; the hard part is remembering them.

what @icecream said... I've been struggling for weeks to get back to my 1000-character peak level from last year before I got sidetracked from studying by work. I've been stagnating at 2000 reviews due for a week or two, but I still have hopes of getting to zero soon. Can't wait to learn some NEW characters...

Just for a data point, last year, in 4 months I went from 200 to 1000 characters. That works out to 6-7 per day, studying an hour or two a day. Some of that was re-learning characters I had learned many years ago.

summary of last message:

last year, 4 months, 30 hours/month: +800 characters

this year, 1 month, 15 hours: -20 characters

*sigh*

Hang in there Kai! ;)

Sandeep: Some beginner stats, maybe not too interesting, unless you are beginner yourself.
I mostly spend time on new characters, looking at an example progress month I have 105 new words added, 35 days studied, 42 minutes per day - so 3 words/day then.

Characters same period, 111 new = 3.2 per day.

Totals: 406 chars and 262 words.

Edit: thats on totally 59 hours, I just saw your totals, you have spent about same time but learned almost double amount of chars/words. Maybe that makes you feel better? :)

@Mats,
Actually I have learned quite a few characters on memrise.com yet without much context. Now trying to learn them using NPCR books and skritter's writing feature.

My average word accumulation seems to be hovering around 50–100 per week. That's after a few weeks away from learning, and not accounting for any retention problems I'll have down the line.

The number of words you learn in a given time frame can vary according to so many variables: whether you know the characters in those new words, whether they're distinct nouns or vague grammatical devices (只要 is stumping me at the moment), how often you see those words applied in the real world, etc. It can be frustrating, especially in those weeks when it doesn't feel like you're having any breakthroughs.