Ah, clever 
In that case, if you dont mind paying, I would do that. I got my apprentice pile of 200 down in just about a week, so im sure you could get yours down pretty fast
Well actually it only warns me about the Ignore function, but you’re right. I guess I spent too much time thinking I’d face my review pile “tomorrow”. I just never had though about it in terms of Number of Apprentice Items and I was only focusing on leveling up, while focusing on the Kanji as well. But the vocab is so helpful to REALLY learning the Kanji.
I’ll tell you what. I’m gonna keep being stupid and doing it all, always hoping to bring em down, always unlocking until level 50. If i fail to bring apprentices to at least 200 by then I’ll freeze leveling up for a month. Now I have people judging me, maybe that’ll do 
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If you really don’t like the huge waves of reviews, I’d recommend never blasting through a ton of reviews in one sitting… because then it’ll come back in a wave. So yeah! Do 50 a day, or a few at a time, as much as you think you want in a given day, with your monthly subscription as a limiting factor.
Though what do I know, still pretty new, and the thought of 900 reviews sounds exciting to me actually…
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You’re not wrong!
After some consideration I’ve decided to freeze leveling up all together. After posting my story I realized there’s no need to rush. I 'm barely doing any reviews, I could be close to burning out. And it would be nice to eventually go back to use wanikani like a regular person: level by level.
That said, is there a way to reorder my review on chrome by SRS so i can grind only the Apprentice items if i feel like it?
On my pc i have no extensions or userscripts avaliable. To reorder reviews/lesson and other tricks I’ve always used the Wanikani Mobile app which has a ton of scripts included.
there are scripts for chrome that are available, check the forums here, List
I use a reorder script, that can be set up by level, and or type, which would be close to what you’re after I think. if you are comfortable setting up scripts it shouldn’t be an issue, I wasn’t and had it in right on the first try.
900 reviews not sexy at all. 900 apprentice items not sexy at all. already got em down to 500 though
I feel you - I also am probably biased. Before starting WaniKani I used Quizlet to drill vocab, and would sit down and do about 500 words in a sitting. Also I started KaniWani the other day and having 10 levels backlogged was magical…
Anyway I recognize that is not a common reaction 
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Useful advice. I started doing the same thing (pushing back my vocab until I felt like a binge day) and saw how insanely fast it piles up. Just did 200+ lessons in the last 3 days (I learn them in sets of 15-40 then self-review all of them on the recently learned page until they’re consolidated enough to not forget when reviews come around four hours later). I can’t even imagine having nearly 1,000 apprentice items though. I’m going to learn from your pain and cut this habit early.
Gotta say though, you’re already level 48; you’re clearly dedicated to learning Japanese and nothing can stop that now if you stay motivated. Take a week or two to clear out that apprentice pile before even thinking about more lessons, mate. Good luck!
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Only learning kanji without learning how they are used in vocabs is useless anyway. It’s like learning how the letter “E” is read but never learning words that use the letter “E”, such as “enter” or “well”.
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I hear you bro. Vocab so important.
Hello guys, thanks for the input. So only about a week later without leveling up I cut my apprentice items down from 979 apprentice items to 132, 36 of which are level 48 kanji+rads I unlocked yesterday, and 163 lesson to unlock, and only 209 in the next 24 hours (1654 Gurus, though).
So it was definitely a wise choice.
It’s waay more manageable. Thanks for the help. Imma wait another 24 hours and probably my apprentice list will go even lower then back to leveling up again. This time the way Koichi meant us to use. Level by Level.
So if anyone ever finds himself in the same spot, or heading towards it, I hope you find this post to see there’s hope for you.
I just wonder if those Gurus will haunt me in a few days in massive batches 
I wonder if it’s already over.
@Kyuui13 thanks bro. I was blind but now I see
がんばれ！
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heh, You’re welcome, but its こんにちは So you know, and you would, if you had done your vocab 
And yes they will come back and bite you in groups, but it is what it is, pacing yourself now however will start to spread that out a lot.
what about こんにちは? i did not mean to say こんにちは at all lol x:
Lol! thats what I get for replying before coffee, the brain registered the K… and went from there on its own.
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@Cairus, that’s a fantastic effort to get your apprentice queue down from 979 to 132. Congratulations! I am surprised that you chose to unlock 48 lessons at the same time. In about a week’s time, you’re going to be hit by a massive queue (700+) of guru items. If you get any of them wrong, they will revert to apprentice.
If you want to unlock more items, I suggest unlocking the vocab items first and learning the lowest level vocab items first. This will give you revision of the kanji / radicals you already have in your guru (or higher) queue. Hopefully, this will help you get them right in the next guru review.
rfindley has a self quiz userscript which allows you to review items you have learnt so far in between reviews.
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You are a hero and an inspiration.
I’m graduating from University this month and I’ve been struggling to find the time for WK. I decided I’d rather build up a cue of vocab than slow my leveling. Currently I have almost 300 vocab lessons backlogged. Finals are this upcoming week for me, so I won’t really be able to start beating the lessons back for another week.
Your trials have inspired me!
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UPDATE: So yeah, way more manageable. To think I actually thought about keeping leveling up…
I think @Kyuui13 gif did it for me.
I should be leveling up again in the morning so the Apprentice pile will go up again, but really, anything below 300 to me it’s a peachy-fluff sugary dream. And just in time for my trip to Japan next week 
Thanks everyone for your inputs, and to you guys in a similar situation, GANBARE! Leveling up isn’t everything (still it got me to level 48 lol, so in a way I don’t regret my decision), but if you ever set a goal to smash them lessons/review pile down, a few weeks will do.
@SwiftElk @wunderbunny arigatou gozaimashita
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Your struggle makes mine look easy, but I’m going to shamelessly the thread I’m using to hold myself accountable for my similar mess anyways: