Does anyone know a way to get the skritter handwriting box down to a size where the wacom tablet writing area is closer in size to real hand writing?

I feel it would:
1) Improve my handwriting.
2) Be faster to write.

NB: I am on a mac, so there are no fancy control panel settings to play with.

System preferences --> Pen tablet --> Details (Pen Mode) --> Tablet Area (Portion).

Mac does have these settings! (If not, there's probably a dmg on the Wacom site or somesuch).

For those with tablets, you're kind of out of luck. I turn on raw squig mode and just end up writing characters at one third to one half size.

You're not out of luck, you can reduce the amount of pad you use. I'm using about a quarter of the pad which, on a 1920x1080 screen, ends up with characters being written about the size of a thumb nail.

Wish I had have known that when I first bought it, i could have bought the cheaper smaller one (:

oops, sorry, I meant tablet computer. I guess I need to get out of the naughties and into the tens and start referring to tablet PCs as pad computers...

There's also the 250px canvas size option in the practice settings. And if you're on a tablet PC and that's still not small enough, you can try zooming out on the page (Ctrl -).

Cool, the firefox 3.6 zoom mode works well for shrinking the canvas size. I could've swore I tried this many moons ago with an older browser and ended up with offset weirdness.

This is cooler than cool. I got my canvas down to 150 pixels at 1" square. I can now maintain some serious speed since the recognition of all the hard strokes by position is kicking in. Massive reduction in stroke repetition due to recognition failures. And I got FatDragon's skinny squigs to boot.

Only downside is that the grading buttons are miniscule and the word definitions and mnemonics are next to unreadable. oh well, now I don't have to worry about strange mnemonics catching my eye... :-)

Last time I tried the shrinking the browser page thing it definitely screwed things up. I found out this time if you shrink your browser page BEFORE going to the practice page, it doesnt have a problem. This is definitely an improvement! But yes the grading things are slightly more annoying now.