I have raw squigs turned on and quite often, my squigs are way off from where they're supposed to be once the whole word is completed, even though they're marked correct. I do have Strictness set to max.

An option to have the next stroke faintly shown (as in 'Show Character' feature) so Users can trace over it, which would be followed by next stroke shown, etc, would be helpful in writing strokes more accurately in where they should be written.

Alternatively, The whole character can be shown (again, similar to 'Show Character') which allows Users to trace over all the strokes until he/she is familiar with the character.

Comments, opinions from other members welcome.

My advice is to keep doing what you're doing - paying attention to the character layout. If you write something totally wack, erase and repeat until you're satisfied.

Keep at it and these problems will be behind you before you know it!

Oh, and I'm guessing you're writing with a wacom. If you're not, they are highly recommended.

Strictness affects the stroke order factor, but doesn't affect the stroke distance factor. In fact, it's slightly easier to get out-of-place strokes that are in the correct order accepted with strictness maxed. It's a tough problem to solve.

Thanks for suggestion solutions! Unfortunately, we've found that tracing has a surprisingly powerful effect on memory. It replaces active recall with passive recall, and this small difference is enough to make the learning massively ineffectual. When we took the tracing out by making the phantom character fade out when you start writing, after pressing "show", the learning really started happening. So we're reluctant to try tracing-based solutions.

I think Thomas's advice is good. I don't even pay much attention to stroke proportions, and my Skritter writing has instinctively given me fairly good proportions as a matter of time.

Thanks guys for your input. My initial thought was that it would shorten learning time, but if your research shows otherwise, then I'll continue erasing and trying until satisfied, as Thomas suggested.

@Ekrem try grading yourself really harshly. If your strokes are far away from where they should have been, mark the character wrong. And every once in a while try writing the character on paper and only click "show" when you're done, and see how far off you were.

James