Sometimes it's really hard to tell if your completed answer has any small visual mistakes, even if you've successfully passed the question. (Optionally) showing the completed user kanji drawing after a successful question would really help with improving the last few inaccuracies I run into when handwriting.

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Originally posted to ringotan.helprace.com

Author: Anon User

Date: 2023-05-01 05:25:27

Hello - I recently added a comment on an older “problem” post (that had been marked as “solved”) but didn’t see any reply yet, so in case it is exempt from notifications, I wanted to create a new post here.

The original post is: “Option to reveal answer after drawing”.

I would like to revive the discussion of this potential feature, as while I understand and appreciate the hesitation from the developer, I still believe it has a lot of value as an optional “advanced mode” for kanji you have already learned to a high degree.

I will repost my comments here:

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I would like to re-request this one, on the basis that it be an optional mode.

I feel the same as @airblaster, I am being influenced by seeing the strokes being revealed as I draw - I sense that I am being given subtle hints (e.g for the 月 radical, is it full height or should I leave space at the bottom for something else to fit? Does this one include the flick at the bottom or not?). I feel that my own recall is not being fully tested.

I also take the point from @BlueRaja about the auto marking system not being able to handle this kind of Freeform input - so how about allowing us to mark our own answer as correct or not when in this mode? After all, we already have this self-marking feature now - if we feel the auto-marking has been unfair (or too fair!) to us, we can override its decision.

I reiterate, this would be an optional mode, not the default. I agree that the best way to learn initially is the way the app does it now. But as a learner gets more advanced, I think it helps to be able to draw from memory alone.

As a potential implementation detail, I believe this would work best as an additional “review style”.

If we define the other styles as being, in order:

* Faint template with each stroke prompted in order

* Faint template with no prompts

* No template with each stroke prompted in order

* No template with pseudo-random stroke prompted after each correct stroke

* No template and no prompts, but after each correct stroke the blue line is painted in

…then what I’m suggesting would be another review style that would come next:

* No template, no prompts, no blue lines painted in, user submits their own final answer before revealing the template, and user has to judge their answer as correct or not (a bit like Anki).

In this sense, the new style is just a logical progression on from the others. Perhaps it would not appear in your reviews until you had sufficiently mastered it in the “easier” styles.

What I’m trying to say is that I still see value in the existing review styles . But to take it to the final level of mastery, I would like to see this new review style as a feature.

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Originally posted to ringotan.helprace.com

Author: Patrick

Date: 2025-11-29 14:40:04

Need to figure out a way to do this without a bad user experience.

Idea: Add new options for "fail immediately" and "default success state"

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Originally posted to ringotan.helprace.com

Author: BlueRaja

Date: 2024-01-28 17:56:28

I have seen others post this idea already, but the more feedback the better, right?

The first idea is that your own handwriting is on the screen. Maybe until you make a mistake or until you complete a kanji. The specifics aren’t that important to me. Just swing your own handwriting until you finish a kanji is what I would absolutely love for the app to have. In my opinion you can’t cheat that way and you feel like you actually did write it all by yourself.

The second idea is that since most kanjis have multiple readings, there could be an option for the voice that reads one reading at the beginning of practicing a new kanji each time, now reads all the reading or example words that you have selected. So for example at the start of practicing 認 the voice would speak 「確認」 and「認める」out loud.

Otherwise the App is PERFECTION. Really well done. I just started using the “most used”-Order and have found it to be very helpful.

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Originally posted to ringotan.helprace.com

Author: Lasse

Date: 2024-02-14 13:16:19

I wish I could write whatever I want, undoing any mistakes, and explicitly say when I'm done. It would feel a lot more natural and akin to using a pencil and eraser that way vs getting blasted with "Wrong!" and given the answer the moment my hesitation makes me mess up. Plus, if I try to draw a second stroke after my "wrong" one, it immediately skips me to the next question, which feels weird to me.

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Originally posted to ringotan.helprace.com

Author: Eiri

Date: 2025-06-05 01:47:01

Disclaimer: I realize that this is similar to issues #450 and #431

But these are years old, and there is some additional things I want to say.

Sometimes when I forget a kanji, I simply tap and drag where I think the nearest stroke starts, and then the snap then reminds me of how to write the kanji in full.

Problem is, this isn't really considered "mastery" of the kanji, since I had to be reminded how to write it via "cheating" using the stroke snapping.

Hence, I think this should be an additional optional final level where this happens, ensuring the user has full memorization of the character.

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Originally posted to ringotan.helprace.com

Author: RiceYumYum08

Date: 2025-08-30 10:03:18