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Feature request

贺知宝   July 12th, 2013 11:33a.m.

Feature request: First write the whole character, then hit "Submit" and see if it is accepted.

Reason: When writing characters on paper, it is possible to make a wrong stroke, quickly realize it, and then make the change ourselves. I would consider this a "got it" situation. When I am immediately told the stroke is wrong and shown the proper stroke, it is hard to know if I could have thought it myself, and therefore must always choose either "So-So" or "Forgot."

Same kind of thing when writing by hand in English. Sometimes I misspell words, not because I don't know how to spell them (well, sometimes because I don't know how to spell them) but more often because I am writing fast or simply make a mistake (such as missing a letter). I quickly notice and cross out/erase/modify etc.

Thanks.

夏普本   July 12th, 2013 12:24p.m.

I think this was asked before and a limitation in how skritter marks characters makes it not possible. Skritter can't check a whole character it can only check the strokes as they are written. I guess it could remember and then just say at the end, but then would struggle to display the mistakes very well. Personally if you can't write a character first time you don't really know it. Lots of people recognition(reading) is much better. It's almost like having a multiple choice question, you can disregard options and make an educated guess. I do it in English sometimes, perhaps I can't spell a word, but I can recognise whether the word looks correct or not by seeing the possible options. I don't count that as really knowing it.

nick   July 12th, 2013 10:49p.m.

夏普本 has explained most of it: checking the whole character at the end would very often lead to frustratingly misrecognized strokes after one recognition mistake on Skritter's part, which you wouldn't notice until too late. We could do the mode you suggested if we let you grade yourself and didn't run our recognition, or if we did a bunch of work on the recognition to recover from mid-stream mistakes--it's something on the want-to-try-someday list.

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