With the writing practice, perhaps it would be useful to assign a 'so-so' rating to your answer if the pinyin is correct, but has incorrect tones, as the tones are seperately tested.

(Hope I've posted this in the right place!)

If/until its a feature you can assign a "so-so" yourself by hitting 2 - I use this for characters where I forgot one stroke, missed a tone, etc.

Hi lewisporter,

If you're studying tones and pinyin, and you get just the tones wrong, then just the tones will be marked wrong and come up for review again. It looks like you've gotten the whole pinyin wrong, but the tones will come up for review separately and the pinyin will be scheduled as if correct.

(If you're not studying tones at all, this does not happen--getting the tone wrong marks the pinyin wrong, too.)

Does that make sense? I think it's more efficient this way than averaging the scores of the two parts.

Ah yes, does make sense. Perhaps it would be a good idea to make the character's outline go yellow, rather than red? I guess it would be a bit of a hassle for a minor UI change, but it'd be a little bit more indicative of what's going on inside skritter.

I haven't thought of a really good way to indicate what's going on, just some unsatisfactory ways. Unless it can easily convey the real situation, I don't want to put it in. Really, I'd want to some way to show the difference in grades between tones and pinyin, rather than some indication that "something is not fully correct", since the true logic wouldn't be clear from that.