1600 reviews after almost a year break at level 11. Should I reset to 1, some other level, or another solution?

[l_l]

FWIW, I once had over 6500 reviews outstanding. I ended up resetting from level 60 to level 46 (which reduced the peak review load to around 5300). After that, I just spent years slowly grinding it out, no reorder or anything (I’m sure that would have made things a lot easier if it had existed at the time though).

@Bubbline

I didn’t completely stop Japanese and still spent time trying to read, watch, and play japanese games every now and then. I got more used to reading kanji in real situations and also generally read Japanese sentences, so I feel like my brain had bad more time to chew on the language and consolidate a much stronger basis of assimilating it. I lost a lot of potential progress, but now progress will be easier in many ways. Wanikani is only one part of the equation and you can learn and cement a lot of kanjis in your brain through immersion. For me that was mostly getting and reading monthly issues of V Jump, and playing games like pokemon in Japanese

This is also true. My second time through WK was a lot easier than the first because I already knew some of it well just from natural exposure.