I just posted my own Skritter story on the Skritter blog:

http://blog.skritter.com/2014/05/how-skritter-helped-me-stop-worrying.html

The article also contains details about an experiment I conducted to check if Skritter could help me maintain my character writing ability (I needed to pass an in-class exam with tons of handwriting), as well as some thoughts on using Skritter in general.

I'd be very interested in hearing your thoughts, as well as your own stories!

I use Skritter for all characters and words, since I like to keep everything in one place (I have some sentences in Anki, but I haven't added new ones in a long time).

I agree with you that Skritter with raw squigs is all you need when it comes to handwriting characters. I have never trained my handwriting in any other way I (haven't taken any Chinese classes) and I have no trouble writing short notes, etc.

My 故事 probably isn't very interesting: I went to Taiwan, and studied Chinese at the Mandarin Training Center. For those who don't know, the MTC (Mandarin Training Center) makes you write until your dominate hand aches, so then you have to use your non dominate hand, and eventually you have to learn how to write with your feet! It was painful; my teacher was cray cray. 10 page ting xies everyday, tests, writing, writting, writting 等等。 Then I returned to Canada and didn't write a character for 3 months. As a result, I forgot everything I learned, which really (warning incoming unporfessional language) pissed me off-- half the hardwork I put into the MTC evaporated! Yes, I could read the characters, yes I could have a conversation using the characters, but I could not write them.

Thus, Skritter for me has been a controlled boot camp, I write everyday to catch myself up. I consider myself to be upper intermidiate, espcially since I can hold a conversation with a gf who hates English. Equating skritter to a boot camp sounds negative, but Skritter has given me self dicipline, which is more inspiring than being bent over and raped in an intensive Mandarin program.

I hope all Mandarin schools invest in Skritter (business opportunity here Skritter doods, phone up the MTC and cut them a deal), I'm sure learning would be more plentiful. If I paid 15 bucks a month to move a Night Elf across a world (WoW reference) then I can cough up 15 bucks for an educational tool that works well!

@Klooste...love the vivid and emotive language! Gave me a good laugh ;-)