1. A memory system, comprising: an array of multistate memory cells, wherein each memory cell has at least three possible programming states; a programming states analysis module, wherein the programming states analysis module determines a number of programming states required to be traversed in programming the multistate memory cells with a set of data using a first encoding scheme; and a reprogramming module, wherein the reprogramming module is adapted to apply a second encoding scheme to the set of data when a number of programming states required to be traversed in programming the multistate memory cells with the set of data using the second encoding scheme is less than the number of programming states required to be traversed in programming the multistate memory cells with the set of data using the first encoding scheme.