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Can anyone who has *finished* RTK/KKLC/some other mnemonic system tell me what their retention rate is when doing their reviews in Anki, please?

I decided to go the rote route* because I found making up mnemonics to be incredibly boring and the mechanical simplicity of rote seemed more appealing, but even 6 months down the line I'm still forgetting some kanji and really struggling to get a handful of other ones down.

I'd say about half of my fails are a result of me mixing up one card with another due to very similar keywords, but then the other half is me simply forgetting (usually only partially, but in rare cases entirely) how to write a kanji.

As you can see from pic related, my mature retention is pretty mediocre, though it varies quite a lot - some days I get 100%, while other days are like today where I'm around ~85%.

I'm debating creating a new deck and going through it with mnemonics, but I first want to know whether people who use mnemonics actually have better retention than me or not, or whether my performance is actually just normal.

*It got really painful towards the end. I really don't know how I managed to finish it because doing my reps just made me want to kill myself, but somehow I stuck it out and finished the deck.