A random but interesting tip that you might like to try.

One issue with Skritter is that it offers slightly too much of a hint whilst practicing characters. Those of you who've used Skritter for a long time and are honest will know exactly what I'm talking about.

Raw squigs mode removes this issue but also removes the high-speed fun of Skritter.

One thing I do (some of the time) is actually close my eyes whilst doing writing prompts in normal, non-raw squigs mode. My rule is that the character has to be marked correct by Skritter when I open my eyes again.

This ensures I'm actually entirely recalling the character from memory and not getting any hints about how to continue writing it from Skritter.

Just thought I'd throw that out there.

Raw squigs can be just as fast as normal... And better than closing your eyes as you can be sure that your stroke was registered.

Perhaps, yeah. I still feel like standard mode is faster though, especially on Android.

I personally disliked raw squigs to begin with (probably because it was much harder). But I kept at it and now would never go back, I have learnt the characters much more solidly with it switched on.

i think the most important is the first stroke. in the ideal case you can see the character in your mind before you start to write.
and if you dont fiddle around too much in the writing field skritter wont offer too many clues.
but i am grateful that if i forgot the character i can easily be reminded of how to write it by skritter giving me clues.

Raw squigs take some getting used to, but they go pretty quickly once you do. I actually prefer them now. Once you know the kanji, writing actually goes faster this way~

I recorded this as an example. The gif is at full speed ^^
http://s24.postimg.org/t0bhoc9s5/Sou_Sha.gif

Of course, I'm writing on PC with a drawing tablet, but that's beside the point ;)

That's why it should be biased to making them incorrect. Any slight mistake should be automatically incorrect and then if you genuinely feel it was correct, manually change it. If I was really strict with myself I would imagine 9/10 characters I felt that I had not really remembered would have to be changed from being correct on skitter.

I always use raw squins but when I have an exam, I write as much as possible on paper. For me, the raw squins don’t go far enough. It still gives too much hints that you are on the right path. I’d like an extra “ok” button when I finished writing the character and after my “ok”, then comes the check.

writing on paper is a total different feeling. I think I will also do have to do this on top of my two hours skritte every day... umphhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I also could not imagine going back after moving to raw squigs. I don't think I have ever adjusted the strictness level though, although I suppose I should as I have been at this for a while. At my current settings I think I can still slide by with a bit of "trial and error" which is sort of like relying on hints. The only way I would ever mark something completely correct when I got the first stroke wrong is if it was a character with a virtually identical meaning with the definition prompt.

I agree with koba, I have the same problem with some characters wich are very similar to each other, like 体 and 休. It happends that i forget to add the last stroke of 体 and I realize it only when the character doesn't mark itself as finished, in this case an ok button could be a good solution to improve raw squigs. I'll try 葛修远's closed eyes technique, just to see if I can force myself to visualize the whole character more often before starting to write.

@learninglife j.h.: Have you tried using a stylus? Might get you closer to the 'writing on paper' feel.