I've noticed that sometimes I'll right in a stroke, but it'll misread it as a different stroke(my fault for fast writing). But, it will put the right stroke up in a light green. I was thinking an option to toggle this on/off would be good, if its turned off just make the stroke you made turn red for a second signaling you made a stroke mistake. The reason I'm suggesting it, is my handwritten chinese is horrible even though my reading is fine, don't need the extra help on seeing an extra stroke:)

I have the same problem. Once I know the character, I don't want any hints or help.

My suggestion is to make Skritter more strict after a character is 'learned'. The overall strictness should be tighter and tighter as we learn each character.

Along the same lines, the Skritter guys once told me they might look at decreasing the number of incorrect and hints allowed as you learn a character.

Maybe it should be an option, but I don't see why anyone would be against it. I guess some people like their sloppy handwriting...

I like the idea of pulsing a stroke that you just wrote a different color to indicate it's out of order. Would probably have to make it an option, because it might be slightly less intuitive than pulsing the right one. (Not that that's that intuitive...)

Will have to give that a shot after the reading and definition practice are ready.

I had an another idea, for someone just starting to learn Chinese. It would show the next stroke every time without having to hit the show button. I remember when I first started learning Chinese, characters like 家 or 律 were huge, would be interesting to have it showing one stroke in advance

Hmm, might be worth a try! It might have similar learning implications to the tracing mode we originally implemented, but perhaps we could delay the next stroke hints to give you time to try to think of them. Now there might be an idea...