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Writing Part

szynka   September 3rd, 2011 12:26p.m.

Hi guys, I have found issue. When there is a writing part and I don't put anything- because I do not remember- it shows me up 'Well done!'. Then I need to change to 'Don't know' by myself. It's a little annoying.

Byzanti   September 3rd, 2011 3:13p.m.

That's so you can quickly click through stuff you know easily. (I presume you're just hitting next).

If you don't know it, why don't you hit the show button to see the character? Then practice it? If you click the show button it'll mark the character as wrong.

Or, if you really don't want to be reminded of the character (which you don't know how to write?), click the correct/incorrect button, and then go to the next character.

szynka   September 3rd, 2011 3:19p.m.

Sorry, my bad, I meant Pinyin Part, where you have to put pinyin from keyboard. Few months ago when I just was leaving the input area blank, and go to next one, it marked as 'Don't know'. Now each time it's 'Well done'. I just prefered much more that old one, so it is an issue or just it has changed?

nick   September 3rd, 2011 3:45p.m.

Yeah, we consciously changed that based on feedback from users, to closer match the definition prompts and so that it would be easier to use them as flashcards. If you want to show the answer and mark yourself wrong, hit the correct button (or the down arrow) instead.

szynka   September 3rd, 2011 5:35p.m.

Alright, thank you.

Kai Carver   September 4th, 2011 7:35a.m.

@nick by the way there is one more inconsistency in this area:

when Skritter asks for a definition, and I don't know it, I click the "(in)correct" toggle, or press the down arrow. This both shows the definition and marks the item as incorrect, which is what I want.

when Skritter asks for pinyin, and I don't know it, I click the "(in)correct" toggle, or the down arrow. This marks the item as incorrect, but doesn't show the pronunciation, so I also have to click the "show" button or press the down arrow.

it would save a keystroke and be more consistent if, for pinyin, when I mark the item as incorrect, it also showed and played the pinyin.

otherwise the danger is that I press show and then forget to also mark it as incorrect.

nick   September 4th, 2011 10:01a.m.

Oh, I hadn't realized that--I'll fix it up to work the way I've just been saying it works.

Kai Carver   September 5th, 2011 4:01a.m.

@nick ah it looks like you fixed it, thanks, that was quick! Now I can do a lot of reviewing using just three keys: the up, down, and right arrows.

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