I'm getting ready to make new keyboard shortcuts to cover the following four functions:

1) Show hidden readings
2) Show mnemonic
3) Changing word-level grading

I might also be talked into this, if more people are interested (I had one request a while ago):

4) Starring words

What other keyboard shortcuts have y'all been pining for? Keep in mind the existing list of shortcuts:

http://www.skritter.com/faq?#shortcuts
(Plus Shift+A for Quick Add, which isn't on there yet.)

It's hard to change shortcuts once we make them, so we want to make sure we add all of the useful ones in this batch.

One of the reasons I have not used the desktop version more than a couple of times, is that I want to be able to grade words and their characters independently, just like on the iOS app. I have not been able to figure out how to do that. Is it possible?
A shortcut that allows you to mark as so-so would also be nice.

If you're not running Internet Explorer, you can click on the word-level grading indicators in the prompt to toggle through them. They look like little check marks in colored circles, next to the part of the prompt to which they refer. Proposed shortcut 3 would let you also toggle this with the keyboard.

You can press 1-4 to manually grade prompts, with 2 being the so-so shortcut. You might also want to make sure the 1-4 grading buttons are enabled in your study settings (the gear on the study page).

I don't uses the keyboard shortcuts. Could you remind me of what shortcuts Skritter already has?

Sure--check the FAQ link: http://www.skritter.com/faq?#shortcuts

Okay, try these guys out on beta:

Change word-level grading: C, , (comma)
Show hidden reading: F, J
Show mnemonic: E, I
Star word: R, U

If we like them, then they'll go live next month on the 15th.