I think you should keep a record of what people voted and at the end of the year see how many people actually learned as many as they wanted to.

Or maybe even remind them at stages throughout the year and encourage them to work towards how many they said they wanted to study.

Just thought it would make for a bit of fun.

Oh, I definitely will do over 1500 characters this year. ;)

I'm working through one Heisig lesson a day, in both Japanese and Chinese. That makes for several dozen characters in each language every day. I should have the Jōyō Kanji and a couple thousand common Kanji down in a couple month's time at this pace.

That should read "a couple thousand common Hanzi".

Levi, you are a strong learner! Hat down to you.
I am learning chinese at chinesepod.com and have a rate of about 10 new characters per week, it adds to about 520 a year.

I am so humbled by you young learners, congrats!

I am planing 10 characters a day minimum, however i am not sure how that review thing works, for the last two days i am more doing reviews than learning new words

adolman's is a great suggestion whether done by the site or on our own. I wanted to put a much higher number in the poll, but realistically, I figured the math for myself the same as lennier61. The poll was helpful just in helping to think what a good and reasonable goal would be.

Best of luck to all in meeting their character learning new year's resolution in 2010!