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Character hints

Byzanti   December 4th, 2009 12:39p.m.

Does the Skritter rescheduling take into account if you press for a character hint in a word?

I've been marking these characters down, but I was wondering whether or not this was automatically taken into account?

Cheers

nick   December 4th, 2009 4:38p.m.

Are you talking about holding down the show button briefly? The border turns yellow to indicate that it's giving you a score of 2. If you hold down too many strokes, it gives you a 3.

It's been suggested that the first stroke wouldn't change the score, then it would go yellow and red. I liked that suggestion, so will probably implement it.

If you meant something else, let me know.

Byzanti   December 4th, 2009 6:41p.m.

Sorry, I'm not meaning on the flash applet. On the other side there's two sections when a word shows up. The top half is the word, the bottom half is the particular character.

If I can't remember which character it is for the particular word I can click on a small pinyin box in the bottom section, eg 'suo', and this will expand into a definition of the character.

Does Skritter take this hint into account?

nick   December 4th, 2009 8:26p.m.

Oh, no, it doesn't. You would have to score yourself for that one. Eventually it might, by marking the word wrong and the character right if you then got it.

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