It would be a cool option, but not a priority, to be able to still input tones on characters when you write them but not have the character come up just to input the tones. Don't know if you can do this or not, but not a priority. You guys have made an awesome website!

Interesting suggestion. So there wouldn't be a tone prompt after a character prompt, you'd just finish the character and then be able to input the tone on the same prompt if you wanted?

Would there still be a dedicated tone prompt when a tone was due by itself?

What would be the coolest thing about having this--why do you want it to work like this?

I'm saying you should be able to toggle on/off the dedicated tone prompt. It would be great for someone like me, I've studied Chinese 4 years but never had any desire to learn how to write. I like reviewing the tones with the basic characters because I've forgotten some. But when you practice a character and you input the tone and then it pops up with a dedicated tone practice, it just seems redundant. But I'm not in the same boat as every Chinese student. I think it would be a nice option, but as I said, not a priority:)

I don't see it as redundant because that only happens when you have forgotten a tone (entered incorrectly) but not how to write the character. So the times when only the tone comes up, it would be redundant for the writing to come up because Skritter thinks that you know how to do that already, but you need to review the tone. That's my impression of how it works anyway.

If you aren't really interested in getting the tones (completely) right, I would suggest turning off tone practice, which in your case sounds like it would save a lot of time and make practicing the characters more efficient; otherwise you could just skip through the tone practice you don't want to do with the space bar.