I suck at tones in Skritter (although I partially blame this on the voice actress, I can hear my Taiwanese wife's tones just fine), and as a result some 70% of my review ends up being for tones. But here's the thing- I'm studying Skritter mostly for reading and writing, tones aren't as important to me. Yet, I'm forced to constantly drill tones because it's my weak area.

It's gotten so bad I'm forgetting how to write characters because I spend all my time drilling tones instead of
practicing writing! So frustrating! I know I can turn off tones practice, but I don't want to do that because I do want some practice with them, just not not for them to dominate my practice like they currently are.

So, here's my suggestion- can you set it up so that we can emphasize certain elements of practice without having to completely turn them on or off? Say, a simple slider which says something like "not important-somewhat important-important-very important-extremely important" that we can play with to choose our own learning focus? Just have it affect the frequency of review for those elements, and it should be a fairly easy thing to implement.

Rob

Whilst admittedly not a perfect solution, have you considered just overruling the programme when it marks you down? I.e., if your prompt is 你好 and you say ni1hao1, you could just mark it as correct and then you wouldn't review that word's tone as promptly.

Use the advanced study mode and uncheck tones, that should do the trick I think

I think a good solution might be to remix the list, disable tone practice for the original list, and then for the second remixed list disable all the other prompts besides tone practice, then you could study the two lists separately depending on which you would like to focus on

Follow rodney's advice. Use advanced study to do your non-tone reviews first. Once they're done, turn tones back on and study them for as long as you're willing. Start every day/session this way and you're problem is solved.