In using the new practice page I often enter an entire class worth of new words in a short time, shortly after, Skritter prompts me for them in the same order and later still in the same order again (assuming I get them all right or all wrong which is very often the case). I've found myself knowing what to write in some cases based on what the last, completely unrelated character is given the ordering (same order as from my textbook). A bit of randomness in ordering would be very helpful!

I agree thoroughly with this idea -- I often enter a block of new words from a few different textbooks and notice the same thing. I'd rather not need to rely on recognizing a sequence to remember words (although any 'hook' like this does help at the time, I'm not sure how effective it is in the long term).

I've noticed this as well, but assumed it was part of reinforcing memory. Hopefully the authors will comment further on whether this was an intentional design choice.

We have some randomness in there, but apparently it's not working in this case (or anymore). Will check it out.

It doesn't randomize initial times, but it randomizes times beyond that. So I'm making it randomize initial times, and upping the randomness a bit to see if that helps. It will take a little while to see the results; everything that is practiced up until I upload this will have been scheduled based on the old randomness values.

I agree that this should be a cool improvement.

The one case against it would be those people using a Heisig like method where they want to add characters more or less in a certain order (at least the first time)?

I'm not doing it that way so I guess I'll leave it to somebody who is to say more.

They will appear in that certain order the first time, but not necessarily after that. (At least, after I upload this bugfix for the new practice page, they will.)

Hello,

this is good news. I also experienced that already, an increase of randomness is much appreciated.

Regards from Beijing,
Alex