I usually do all radicals the first day.
Then 10 - 15 new kanji a day.
Then 15 - 20 vocab a day depending on how hard the vocab is.
I currently do all the lessons in one go. It has started to get painful with, on top of the ~70ish new kanji and vocab, I get constant waves of older content. Days when I have under 100 reviews a day are long gone ha. I have an hour long bus ride to and from work, so that is when I usually find time to do all my reviews.
Iām trying to see how far I can go with a near perfect burn rate, until the influx of kanji and vocab I donāt know gets a bit much. I had to quit WaniKani a year ago because school got busy and I accumulated a backlog of a few hundred reviews. Also, I stopped knowing most kanji I was learning (~level 21). Since then, I finished an intermediate course in university, and lots of self study to get to a point where I can learn easier.
However, Iām getting to the point where each lesson, I only know ~4 or 5 kanji out of the roughly 30 total kanji. Itās great that I am learning a lot of kanji and vocab, but it takes up almost all my time allotted to studying Japanese. I imagine sometime in the future I will need to either change how I am handling lessons and reviews in WK to make room for other study methods, or 100% focus on WK for the next ~1 year or so and learn as much as I can.
Thatās a very interesting idea! I have been doing around 20 lessons per day with the ordering script so that I get radicals and kanji first. Itās been working fine but there are some days in which no lessons are available, since not all the lessons from one level are unlocked at firstā¦ Doesnāt this happen to you? :o
Well, I should start by saying I only started doing that around Level 30ishā¦prior to that I did all my lessons at once.
Ocassionally, I wouldnāt have any lessons for half a day or so, but in the case for level 4, if you do 25 lessons a day, at the end of 7 days, thereās still 5 lessons that are not done. Often times, the days where I normally wouldnāt have lessons because I havenāt guruāed the radicals/kanjis, Iād be catching up with that remainder of lessons. Otherwise, Iād just enjoy the short break in lessons 
As someone just starting out too, I found 5 to be too slow for me.
I can handle all radicals in one pop and trying out 10 lessons a day now and all reviews (and also the odd review through the day as they are quick), doesnāt feel like too little/much.
I could easily fit in another 10 lessons at lunchtime, but I have decided to use that time on Kaniwani to reinforce what Iāve learnt as it does require you to think slightly differently about the same vocab, I also go on Bunpro so I start to cover my grammar and I am starting to think about other language gaps to fill (of which there are many!).
@OtakuShowboat and @jurcaua seem like sensible approaches/amounts too though and I may build up to taking on more depending on how busy work gets.
Iām Curious to find out what you settle on.
Thatās a nice way of looking at it, thanks. Iāve been thinking of it more along the lines of how many reviews I have to do the next day, but the apprentice count is more in tune with that Iām here to achieve.
I try to do the lessons and reviews as soon as they arrive. Last week I had too littlle time and they stacked up, over a hundred lessons and reviews combined. And in my experience, you definitely donāt want that.
I actually enjoy doing the reviews and actually look forward to when they appear, but hey, I am still on level three, so what do I know.
I do any number I feel like, with the rule that I canāt do any if I have reviews due.
Doing too many lessons means Iāll get behind on reviews so Iāll be forced to slow down until things are manageable. Or even if I get through the reviews but it was too many I probably wonāt feel like doing lessons. It isnāt really a problem to do too many lessons since it will get sorted out later. The only problem is to keep doing too many lessons after it is becoming clear that itās unmanageable.
Sometimes when I have plenty of time Iāll do everything as it becomes available. Sometimes Iāll do lessons until my ādue in the next dayā is a number that seems good to me. Sometimes I pick a number and do that many per day (ranging between 3 and 20 depending on how much time I have). I switch between these and less defined approaches whenever I feel like it.
Also, I use the build-in ordering to sort by level and then item type. Itās good for learning to do the vocab as the next thing after the kanji in it, and itās good for efficiency to do a level in radical, kanji, vocab order.
Yeah, looking at your next day review count can be a bit misleading since that number takes a few jumps up before leveling off about half a year in, usually around level 15-20 or so depending on pace. Basically every time your very first radicals cycle through again you can expect more reviews to doā¦ more or less permanently until you get to level 60. The last two jumps happen about 2 and 6 months in, when you start getting items back for Enlighten and Burn levels.
Itās odd because how big your workload is (next day reviews) and how many things youāre learning (Apprentice count) are sort of different things depending on who you ask, since a fair chunk of review content tends to be reinforcement of things you already know.