I was thinking it might be interesting to be able to write a whole character and then click a button when you're done to have Skritter mark you all at once. This would be quite a good way to keep oneself honest when entering the character, and would mean you could spot cases where you'd put in too many strokes if Skritter didn't stop you when the right number had been entered.

Thought I'd put this out there in case your to-do list was getting to thin :P

I agree. I think word recognition in reading would be easier if I were able to write all the characters in one long chain. Admittedly, I wouldn't want to lose the character by character definitions. However, perhaps that could still be accomplished through a new feature in which by moving your mouse over each of the finished characters a pop-up bubble would appear with the individual character definition.

Dong Ban has a good point. I think the system for words could be improved, as I find myself practicing as if the words were only their component characters. It would be nice to have the completed word a little more front and center after completing it.

Yeah, that's a good point. I'll think about ways to display the whole word better, in the Flash, while you're writing it and right when you've finished. I've got some good ideas for it, I think.

What I was thinking about was to temporarily turn off stroke-by-stroke recognition to avoid the inevitable hints that come with your dodgy writing snapping into place. But whole word recognition would be good too.

I don't think I will try to do anything like that until we try to do component recognition, because recognition would have to get smarter to figure out that you hadn't missed strokes in the middle that it didn't quite recognize, and if I do that, I've essentially done the recognition half of the component thing anyway.

When we had recognition delays in there, it was already brutal enough when it missed a stroke when you were only a couple strokes ahead. Finishing the whole character and then realizing it didn't pick up stroke #3 is no good.