Same here. It wasn’t until about level 4 or so I realized it.
A great way to use it is if, say, you’re at work and you happen to have a few minutes to kill, you can boot up a review session (where you could have some 50+ reviews), and immediately click the Wrap-Up icon. Doing 10 items should take under 10min when starting off, so it’s a great way to nip away at those reviews that keep piling up throughout the day.
Cheers!
Oh I see, thanks for explaining! It’s like limiting my review session to 10 at a time.
What is the difference if I use this and if I just manually go back to home page after 10 items? I’m quite confused.
That is correct.
This is how I learned it. (If I am wrong, anyone please correct me.) When you start any new review session, WaniKani will queue up 10 cards. These are the cards that it will show you. When you complete a card, it is removed from this list, and another not-reviewed card will be added to the list. There will always be 10 cards in the review pile (until you run out of cards to review).
Example: If you answer nine cards correctly (pronunciation and meaning), but you make a mistake on your tenth card, which card do you see next?
When you stop after ten cards, you may have some cards you started and did not finish (pronunciation or meaning, but not both). The next time you review in WaniKani, I think these cards you have to review both sides, even if you reviewed one side earlier.
I hope I didn’t make my explanation confusion. This is based on information I heard from someone, and my own experience.
So if you reach level 60 and get the golden 60, then reset to 1, you get to keep the golden 60?
Nah, it just takes a while for the forums to sync with your actual WK level. Relogging will usually fix it immediately.
It took me even longer to know what it does!
No, I restarted last year and reached level 60 again in a year. When you restart your level icon restarts too.
I see. The 10-card limit will force me to finish both the items’ reading and meaning.
I understand now, thank you so much!!
This just saved my wanikani life. I had been waiting for so many days for that ONE kanji to come through again. My reviews queue is very high because of one bad weekend and I felt a bit like I was drowning. UGHUGUGH! I can’t believe I didn’t know. Oh well, time to burn through this $#!+! 
Many thanks!
If it makes you feel better, I’m Level 17 and I learned this on Level 16. I do 98% of my studying with Tsurukame app on IOS which has an easy to find “wrap up” option which is so handy when I don’t feel like doing a huge review session, and I thought it was a feature specific to Tsurukame and not part of the actual Wanikani website.
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