If you have ever learned Chinese in a classroom setting you have almost certainly come into contact with the seemingly arbitrary and ridiculous rules of stroke order. If you were particularly unlucky, your teacher was …

Y’all have helpfully clamored for a Skritter iOS app for a long time now. As I’ve gotten more and more of it built, I’m seeing how right y’all were: it’s going to knock off some …

The list system was overhauled for many reasons, and still has some tweaks and bug fixes to go through yet, but here we’ve come to pretty much the ultimate feature that really brings it all …

  I’d like to share with the skritter community a little bit about the summer Chinese teacher training program that 高健 (Jacob Gill) and I attended in Beijing this past summer (the ACC K-12 Chinese …

Here’s something that’s long overdue: you can now suspend your account when you go on vacation! If you’re to be gone for a week or a summer vacation, you can put your account on hold …

It’s official, Skritter users have studied 100,000,000 items on the site! That means that where you sum up the number of tone, reading, definition, and writing prompts studied, you get 100,000,000. Nick, Scott, and I …

Skritter is getting on in age and size. It’s been over three years since we started this project, more than four if you count Nick’s honors project where he developed the stroke recognition algorithm that’s …

Quick Add Bar Blog Post And lastly, there is the Quick Add Bar. It’s really a very specialized popup. It’s temporary and out of the way, and draggable as well. With it you can add …

Now for part two of our Quick Add feature extravaganza. We have just released a Quick Add page, dedicated to getting those words into your studies as quickly as possible. This way, you can bookmark …