After Genki, I read books for a couple of years. What does my Kanji Grid look like?

Not sure if anyone will find this interesting, but I wanted to share some data.

I learned kanji I encountered in books. I read for like 80 min a day.

Cutting to the chase, let’s see what I was able to learn: https://imgur.com/a/cnFFMPw

This chart was generated with “kanji grid” which is a free anki plugin.

NOTE: Click these to enlarge the image

**Discussion:**

**N5-N4:** I think I learned most of these from Genki. Not sure why it’s making 方 lighter than the rest, I probably just don’t have as many cards with it.

**N3:** It says I’m not missing any of these, but has some as red. I think those red ones, I feel I actually know those. Except 労, which always screws me up, it’s fair to say I’d fail that kanji.

**N2:** This is where I legit didn’t even encounter some of these kanji, or if I did I guess I didn’t make anki cards. It’s only missing a few and I could probably learn these quickly with some effort…

**N1:** Oh yeah, this is where it really falls apart. It’s these guys who make it so I don’t have a good enough reading level to read adult books comfortably without something like yomichan.

**Other Kanji:** Some of these seem common, I wonder if it’s a bug or something that they aren’t in another list. Not super sure.

**Conclusion:** After a couple years of relatively light amounts of reading, you can learn quite a few kanji just by looking up the words and adding them to anki. But, it’s not quite enough to have all the N1 kanji, unless you make more of an effort than I did.

Well, I should go read. Just thought you all might find this interesting.