Option to switch off progressive stroke reveal, and instead display full kanji at the end, with self-marking of correct/incorrect result

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 *in the beginning*. But to take it to the final level of mastery, I would like to see this new review style as a feature.