This one is called "Most Common 3000 Hanzi" and can be found on Anki Shared Decks. I've been religiously going through Timo's HSK Deck and it's made my homemade deck pretty redundant (not too mention extremely boring). It's time for a slight shift in how I study.
With class becoming all but irrelevant with HSK 6 looming (not sure why we aren't prepping in class), I've been putting more and more effort into personal study time outside the textbooks. Anki makes up a large part of this. Going through 25 new words a day (about 200 words a week) means that the 50 new words per chapter are usually already known. I end up just putting words with new characters into my personal Anki deck. Not only that but the words in the HSK 6 list have a crazy amount of character redundancy.
There are 2600 characters in HSK 6 and 5000 words. Since each word has two characters that means the Hanzi repeat, A LOT. It makes more sense at this point to just learn the individual characters and remember which characters are in which words. This definitely would not have worked at the beginning (you need the context of the word to even remember the characters). But now that more than a year and a half of experiences and studying have cemented many of the concepts in place *deep breath* it's quite easy to just learn the most common words that are made up of the most common characters. It's kinda like an alphabet...that has several thousand letters. An added benefit of single character study is increased word comprehension, word composition, and a better understanding of etymology.
As usual, the picture above is a sample of what the Anki deck looks like. It has actual stroke animation built in! (courtesy of MDGB.net) My terrible Windows-Paint GIF above doesn't really do the animation right. All strokes and stroke directions are shown unlike the swipe effect above :D
**Skritter is fantastic resource (at least when I tried the demo) but I still ain't ready to fork over $100 a year for only a slightly-more-interactive experience. So for now I shall be sticking with free Anki...
