I did it two times, first time was 1900 but I missed two I should know from Wanikani so I did it again and got 2100 because there where some lucky rare ones I knew. Between attempt 1 and 2 there was a session with errors I think. I think I know more Kanjis outside the Jouyoukanji range but am still a bit shaky with some of the Jouyoukanji so it seems like a good guess.
If it is only about the meaning… otherwise I have to do it again because I didn’t consider the reading at all.
With On- yomi I got 2400 But I was lucky because some １級 Kanji I knew appeared.
I kept doing it now until the 2400 fell to 2050 and raised to 2111 again where it stayed for a longer time and which is accurate I think. But for example in the case of 錦 I only knew the Kun- yomi but counted it as correct anyway.
Yeah, I don’t really think this has much real world relevance because of the points you listed. I didn’t recognize 其 and got deducted a ton for such an “easy” word . I think having practiced writing helped my score a lot, but still kinda weird having some really obscure kanji thrown at me right from the beginning. Would make more sense to start building from easier ones. Don’t show me 愍 (some weird alternative kanji I’ve never seen) as my first one
Yeah, I was shown some weird alternate kanji early on as well. And the funny thing is that I often understand alternate kanji in context (even if I’d never seen it before), but usually I wouldn’t recognize them out of context.
Is that kanji even considered “easy” / common? 其の (etc.) is obviously a common word, but it’s not super common written with the kanji itself. In any case, I had a few “easy” ones that I failed too that knocked off like 50+ points.
I may take the quiz again tomorrow to see how variable it is. Maybe I’ll do a version where if I recognize one of the example words then I vote “know it” to see how much it impacts my score.
I answered 501 questions with a final “score” of 150 kanji, which is about what I expect. I judged myself strict, so that if I did not recognize the kanji on first glance I considered it “do not know”. I’ve not done serious Japanese study since 2018 and several kanji I know I’ve burned on WaniKani were missed (sorry, 四, I’ll make it up to you later).
I think I hit a bug - I was averaging around 1700 (which is probably fair) then got two in a row wrong and it then dropped me to 500, then to 100 despite getting the next one right.
Is this typed correctly? Not judging just that’s a low number to go the trouble of answering 500 questions for. So I figured either you have great stamina or typed that wrong
I’m glad you guys are enjoying this. As for answering right and the number known going down, are you guys just stopping when this happens? The same thing happened to me too, but after answering more kanji, the number went back up. The test is algorithm-based, and the more you answer the more accurate your estimate becomes. The estimate also should fluctuate much less as you answer more, unless you’re studying kanken level 1 kanji.
But I was lucky because some １級 Kanji I knew appeared.
. I think having practiced writing helped my score a lot, but still kinda weird having some really obscure kanji thrown at me right from the beginning. Would make more sense to start building from easier ones. Don’t show me 愍 (some weird alternative kanji I’ve never seen) as my first one 
