Essays
Is Cursive Faster if You Keep Blanking on Characters?
Tempted to learn cursive to write faster despite frequent character amnesia? Cursive needs more mastery, not less. Here is why to fix recall first.
Lawrence Arya··5 min
Essays
A Multiplayer Hanzi Racing Game: Fun, but Does It Teach?
A real-time racing game where players speed-trace characters is genuinely fun, but it rewards fast tracing, which is recognition and rushing, the opposite of careful from-memory production.
Lawrence Arya··5 min
Research
Is Pen Speed a Useful Metric for Chinese Handwriting?
Writing speed is a result of fluency, not a target to chase. Optimizing a speed metric directly can wreck accuracy, and reading personality from speed is graphology. Here is what to measure instead.
Lawrence Arya··5 min