I just started going through the N1 kanji schedule. I have the ordering set to 'in list order', but I'm getting a lot of 1級 kanjis right away. Some of them I even have to look up the meaning in English because I've never heard them before, like surplice.
There are plenty of more usual kanjis in N1 that could be introduced before those. I'd prefer a wider selection.
Is it just an odd coincidence at the start of the list, or should I set the ordering to random?
Once you get into the less common characters, you find a lot that more or less only appear in one word, like 袈裟. The English “meaning” of half a word doesn’t always make much sense. You have the option of customizing the meaning to something that makes sense to you.
Other people would know better than me, but I doubt tweaking the order will change your experience much.
It's not so much the meaning itself that I find odd, but the fact
that so many obscure kanjis are being introduced at the very beginning
of the schedule.
To illustrate this, I made a plot of the kanji
kentei level in the order they are introduced (assuming the export
function in renshuu does export in the same order - I only checked the beginning and end of the list).
The first 100 or so kanjis are almost exclusively １級, 準１級, ２級. After that it looks more like what I would expect: increasing difficulty as it goes along.
