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Posts tagged Speed from the Hanzi Write Practice team.

Misty ink-wash river valley with calligraphy 尋雲記 (seeking the clouds) and a lone boat, illustrating a multiplayer Hanzi racing game and whether it teaches
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
Misty ink-wash river valley with calligraphy 尋雲記 (seeking the clouds) and a lone boat, illustrating whether pen speed is a useful metric for Chinese handwriting
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