Is there functionality to configure skritter for iphone to show newly introduced characters, and demonstrate the stroke order.

When a new character is introduced, all I have is a blank canvas. How I am supposed to know what to practice, regardless of stoke order?

Without this, skritter is not a learning tool but a means of reinforcement for someone learning through some other means.

I have just started learning a beginners conversational course and thought I would try and learn some characters along the way. I hoped skritter could help me with this.

Is there some setting I need to configure to do this. It seems it was on the dev roadmap in 2009 http://www.skritter.com/forum/topic?id=3743483

Thanks

I just hit the question mark and then start drawing it as my best guess. If I go in the wrong order or write a stroke backwards then Skritter corrects me. Everything I know about writing is from Skritter.

Just hit ? To show the entire character. I use skritter by itself currently to learn words and it works fine.

Thanks for replies guys.

Where is this question mark?
Don't see anything on my screen.

On the web version, if you hold the question mark button down it will show you the stroke order. If you tap the question mark it will show you the whole character.

However, on the iphone version you can only get it to show you the whole character (double tap the centre). It doesn't show you the stroke order.

Tap the screen once, and you will see the first/next stroke. Tap it twice, and the whole character shows up.

Also, if you are new to the app, try the Help questionmark in the first (home) screen.

The initial question was about Skritter for iPhone, I think some of the answers only apply to the web version.

On the iPhone you can use the link to Pleco to view the character stroke order. I think the stroke order might be a paid add-in in Pleco, not sure though.

To be honest though after you have learned to write a few characters and have taken note of the very simple stroke order rules, the stoke order of most characters will become very obvious, and Skritter can correct you when and if you mess up.

Ok, thanks all,

I was just confused as when you first download the app and take the tutorial it shows you the whole character, greyed out, which is really helpful if you are being introduced to a new character, and it has the first/next stoke shown in blue.

If there's a way to get this to work for characters in lists, that's what I'm looking for. Sounds like maybe I need to try the web version but this is not so flexible for use of my time.

Point taken about stroke order becoming second nature after a bit (have read the advice on this site). Still helpful to have a new character shown first rather than having to look it up.

Appreciate all your helpful comments :)