When Skritter is just drilling tones, a shadow image of the hanzi appears, I think it would be useful if the pinyin could be disabled in order to force us to remember pronounciation and tone as well.

Since some users like and other wouldnt like, perhaps a toggle in the settings would be useful.

Sorry Skritter creators, we are like children asking that and those, the good side is that we love Skritter.

Its a good idea

Instead of doing this, we were planning on waiting until full pinyin practice is available such that you'd type the pinyin and tone together to practice the pinyin. Then we can reserve the tone-only practice for when you already know the pinyin but just keep messing up the tone. Sound good?

What Nick said :p!

Or another good way to do it is have an option for not having the pinyin at all, but giving the definition. That way you would have to know how to write the character AND the pinyin:)

It would also reinforce the word, you would have to think of what Chinese word it is based on definition, where as with definition practice I have the link created with the character