I usually do 20 per day, but sometimes I do more if it’s needed in order to get to 0 lessons before level up.
Yeah, I’ve also noticed that my average daily reviews are about ~10-20 more than the lesson cap setting, depending on when I do the lessons.
Have I told you how much I like this script? 
It’s really helped me set my pace. It’s like tiny levels every 3 items!
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This is an old thread, but I want to answer anyway. You should do as much as you notice you’re comfortable with while learning. I am not afraid of forgetting things for going through many items at a time because I’m not afraid of failing my reviews. Eventually, I’ll learn them.
This is what I’d recommend, though: you know how there are two groups of kanji per level? One you get along with the radicals and the other you get after you’ve guru’ed the radicals. Okay, so I do it like this: I do my lessons in groups of five itens. One radical and four vocabs. One radical, a kanji and three vocabs, at most. If there are too many radicals, something I haven’t experienced recently, do it like two radicals and three vocabs, until there are no more radicals to learn.
Now, all that’s left is fewer vocab and kanji. I try to do 4 vocabs and 1 kanji. I do all that because I personally find vocabulary the most annoying to deal with because they come in very large groups and generally not accompanied with that exciting feeling of curiosity, so I try to weed them out with some fun. In any case, after the radicals are already on their way, I just make sure to have cleared the lessons by the time the radicals are guru, because then you can still finish the level in the shortest time possible, as long as you do the second group of kanji (that comes after the radicals are guru) and vocab in a single day. I wouldn’t, though. I might do it in two. Therefore, I sort of divide my lessons in… say, four or five days? First, radicals and vocab. Second (and maybe third) kanji and vocab, clearing the first group of lessons. Third and fourth (or fourth and fifth) kanji and vocab, after the radicals are guru’ed.
What I do with lessons as a rule of thumb -
radicals - all at once
kanji - 5 per day
vocab -15 per day
This could change if I have more than 100 reviews queued up.
I do 14 per day if it includes any radicals or kanji, or 21 per day pure vocab.
Try to do 10 a day, 20 if I feel adventurous. For me its about keeping my apprentice pile as low as possible, under 100 preferably.
It also depends on your other studying resources as well, if your only doing WK and not much else, go for broke, but I’m balancing WK, KW, Genki and trying to read/listen whenever possible thus 10 is manageable for me.
Its like speed limits, sure they’re there, but drive to the conditions more than anything.
I swear I’ve searched high and low, but couldn’t find an answer to my question, which is: how do you manage that? 
I don’t get the last batch of vocab until I’ve gurued the related kanji. And by the time I’ve gurued those kanji… I’m up a level. I always end up with spillover vocab from the previous level. What am I missing?
I don’t think it’s possible to learn all the vocabulary before a level up for the reason you’ve stated. The key word is “try”, I think. One can 0 out the vocab before the final kanji guru so that as few vocab items as possible block the next level’s radicals.
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Ah, that makes sense. Thank you.
Right, it’s what BobaGakusei said. I just try to make sure my currently available vocab lessons are all done before I do the last kanji guru batch and trigger that next level’s lessons.
I don’t do all of my kanji lessons at the same time, I spread them out over 3 days or so (which still lets me level in under 9 days). So I’m able to knock down a good chunk of the kanji-guruing-related vocab for my current level before the next level, because they’re unlocking while I still have other kanji yet to be guru’d.
Between some mistakes and staggering the kanji, I’m typically going to be guruing about 5 (this is a guess, but feels about right?) current-level kanji in whatever the final review session of a level is. I don’t actually know what the average number of vocab unlocked by a guru’d kanji is, but I guess about 5-6? So that should only be a few dozen new vocab lessons waiting for me at the next level.
(Granted a lot of the other vocab from the previous level have only just been started by this point, so my Apprentice items can get over 100, but at least they’re not lessons. Nothing makes me want to close my WK tab faster than seeing triple digits under Lessons.)
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Thanks, @somewanikani. I thought I was doing something wrong there! I’m moving roughly at that pace too (though much further behind!).
I do radicals as soon as they are unlocked
I do the first batch of kanji you unlock within 3 days. Sometimes I spread them out. Sometimes I do them all in one go
I do the second batch of kanji as soon as they are available
I spread out the vocab throughout the week. It’s different every time but as long as my lessons are at 0 when the week is over it’s alright.
Until I cry
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Wait, there are 3-day levels later on? How does that work? Does that mean you get 90% of the kanji as soon as you level up? That’s going to mess up my 25-vocab-per-day pace…
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You don’t have to do them that quickly. Level 26 is for some reason also a short level and it still took me 5 days to finish since I paced it a bit.
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You unlock at least 90% as soon as you level up, but you always have the option to control your own pace. If you want to keep going at a more reasonable pace just spread the kanji out over a few days and then you can still do 7 or 8 or 9 (or whatever pace suits you) day levels. Definitely consistency is much more important than speed in this whole process so if you have a system that is working well for you right now, I would not rush on the levels where going fast is possible. Does that make sense? I am not sure if that explanation was very clear, but the basic answer is you are able to go faster on the last few levels, but you certainly do not have to. Do whatever best suits your learning style and your goals in Japanese and your current life situation.
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That was clear enough, thank you 
I usually do all my kanji in one go and then spread the vocab, but I might just have to spread the kanji too if that’s the case.
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You’re welcome! Best of luck.
P.S. It is only an issue for 26, 46,47, and 49-60 if I remember correctly, so you still have some time before it becomes something you have to really think about.
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