The answer to the first question is five.

For how the review works you can see https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/161390/what-are-the-review-queues-and-how-do-they-work

Edit reviews don't take long. Currently, there are two pending edits in the queue. Two users with at least 2k rep can approve a suggested edit, or if a reviewer chooses to <kbd>improve</kbd> an edit it is immediately approved.

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Other reviews, close votes or flags, can take days because it takes five 3k users to do one review. Also, there are hundreds of them.

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I am pleased you are keen to edit but you are still <2k rep and review is there to make sure people don't rush edits and make low quality posts. In short, it is working well ;).




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