Even the best internet connections have hiccups, and our servers occasionally do, too. It’s not always easy to tell when there’s been a connection slowdown or interruption while practicing on Skritter until a few reviews …

Here’s another recent upgrade to the site: the My Words search now includes words that have a given character in it. If you search for a single character, you’ll get back not only the character, …

As an alternative to typing the pinyin to answer Chinese reading prompts, we’ve now added the grading buttons to those prompts. This allows you to use a more flashcard-like style if you don’t want to …

New feature just added last week ago: you can now export your starred words. This has been asked for a few times, has been on the to do list for a while, and is finally …

春节快乐! (chūnjié kuàilè, Happy Chinese New Year!) Happy year of the Rabbit! Did you have a chance to check out this years’ CCTV New Year’s Evening Gala? Every year hundreds of millions of Chinese people …

Sometimes you just want to do writing prompts for a while, without having to switch gears and think about tones or definitions. Or maybe you want to minimize switching between keyboard and pen/mouse, so you …

Okay, this is the last redesign for the time being, we promise! Don’t worry, it’s not too drastic anyway. We’ve shuffled things around in the home page a bit and moved in two orphaned tools: …

Here’s another one that’s been around for a while, but which you might not have noticed. This time it’s the toughness indicators in the word popup, which help let you know how useful a character …

Have you ever found yourself wanting to mark a word or character for more intensive study later? The analogue equivalent would be something like earmarking a flashcard or highlighting a row in a textbook list. …

I’ve just put Skritter into the Chrome Web Store as an official Google Chrome app, which allows it to live in a cool place on your Chrome New Tab page, as well as make use …