Navigate through the kill ring in emacs

Question

Consider the following situation: N items in the kill ring. The desired item needed to be yanked is item #k

A numerical argument solution won't really do since counting or keeping track of the position of things in the kill ring is annoying.

Answer 1

Try the browse-kill-ring+.el script or the other solutions on EmacsWiki.

Answer 2

What is the actual question? What's wrong with pressing C-y and then M-y k-times?