After using Skritter for several months with a mouse but reading how much better pen input practice is, I now have a wacom tablet. Generally I like the method but I have difficulty entering some strokes, particularly the smaller ones. For example, 帝 has four short strokes - on average it reads three of my inputs. By "reads" I mean that the tablet sees them. When a stroke is not "read" I see either nothing or that pooling sort of image but not the faint gray (if I had entered a wrong stroke to skritter) or a solid black (if I had entered a correct stroke).
I have adjusted the tip feel all the way to soft but I frankly don't see much difference between soft and firm. I have tried making the strokes longer and generally they are more likely to be read but that's not a satisfactory answer, really; since this technique is supposed to be mimicking actual handwriting I don't want to exaggerate my strokes.
Are there other adjustments I should try?
Do others have this difficulty?

Hm. I've got one too, although I haven't been having trouble.

Perhaps you could try disabling 'press and hold for right click' in the Windows tablet/pen settings (separate from Bamboo settings)? May be more responsive.

Thanks for the suggestion.
I think you mean go to this menu:
start/control panel/tablet PC settings/other/pen and touch/pen buttons/pen button as right click equivalent
Okay, I did that but I cannot see any difference.

Nope. Pen button is fine. This is different.

Control Panel -> Pen and touch -> Press and hold (double click on, then disable).

Thanks again. (funny, my link above gets to the same menu but I disabled the wrong thing) So, what you suggest does help. I now have that "press and hold" disabled and the (bamboo setting) "tip feel" all the way to soft and it is quite a bit better than the default. Not perfect but I guess my touch is especially light or this pen/tablet is especially tough.

Sometimes it doesn't pick up my stroke, either. It's because I'm pressing too lightly (in my case). Perhaps you can try pressing harder?

I might be able to do some fixes to this if they ever get around to sending me the updated Wacom browser plugins so that I can get pressure sensitivity hooked up (which will mostly make it look much cooler when you're drawing).

I know I press relatively lightly and a bit more pressure harder works better. However, with an end-goal of trying to write naturally this isn't the perfect solution. It is okay now... I am content to wait for the "much cooler" look.
thanks.