Can this info be provided for each list:

How many people are currently using it?
How many people have ever used it for more than 7 days?

Is making lists a private affair for most Skritter users? Just input their homework each weekend? Or are there a few master lists that everyone uses?

thanks.

I study the JLPT lists as the JLPT is probably the most important test you can take for Japanese. I study it almost everyday. I create my own lists for the Heisig primitives I need to study when I come across a Kanji in the JLPT list that contain primitives I don't know. I don't publish my list as it is highly specialized to my studying needs. How do you study?

I also used the JLPT lists. But, I did not like them.

I noticed more than a few characters that are absolutely never used (except for maybe Yukio Mishima) and more that are not on the level-2 test. I am curious about how the jlpt lists were made. And also where the definitions come from. Both are a little sketchy.

Of course, I could easily ignore what I don't like. Skritter made my kanji study extremely efficient. My kanji power went vertical very quickly.

The most-used Japanese lists are, in order:
Genki 1
Genki 2
Basic Kanji Books
JLPT 4
Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese
Adventures in Japanese 1
Nakama 1
Nakama 2
Adventures in Japanese 2
JLPT 2
JLPT 3
Tobira
Yookoso 1
Yookoso 2
... a big long tail of lists ...

The spread here is such that about 7 times as many people use Genki 1 as Yookoso 2.

So, It looks like no user-made lists or widely used. I understand. thanks.

@azurei you didn't say why you wanted to know. If you're interested in finding lists that other people find useful, I would post in the forum; people can give more specific guidance that way.

As for seeing rankings from an egoboo or academic interest point of view, I would put user-made lists into a different category. Most people are going to study either a textbook or a list which is oriented towards a specific exam, so user-created lists are naturally going to lose as a category. Another issue is that it's somewhat harder to find custom lists (although the tagging system is great) and people tend to create their own rather than looking for an existing custom list. From that point of view, showing the most popular custom lists (somewhere on the vocab page) would bring them to the attention of more users. I don't know about Japanese, but in Chinese there's a HUGE number of custom lists, 99% of which are probably not used by more than one or two users.

James

I am looking for different lists for the Japanese Proficiency Exam (JLPT). I was hoping some user made the effort to create a better list.