I started going through RTK in the beginning of January, I already knew about half the kanji so I'm suspending a lot of cards. I'm going through 25 new kanji per day, which takes less than 30 minutes with the reviews. At first it was just fine, but about halfway through the deck I started mixing up kanji. There are a lot of similar keywords like drown and drowning and emotions like rue, resentment, remorse, etc. My retention on mature cards is going downhill.
I'm around N3 starting N2, I know about 4k words. Because of that I can't really read that much and the things I can use mostly the 1k kanji I already know, so I don't get to reinforce what I learn that much.
For comparison, here are my stats for the current vocab deck I'm going through:
And here is my retention for RTK:
I learn everything directly on Anki, that's why my learning stats are so bad, I always press again at least once because of that.
I'm using FSRS which I didn't before, I started using it in January. It is optimized very often. I never had retention problems with the old algorithm before. I changed because I felt the reviews were excessive and a 97%+ retention rate wasn't necessary. What do I do?
by HamsterProfessor