diff --git a/config.js b/config.js
index 6434eb03..181e9d74 100644
--- a/config.js
+++ b/config.js
@@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ export default {
                              // e.g., if model is running st 25 FPS, we can re-use existing bounding
                              // box for updated face analysis as the head probably hasn't moved much
                              // in short time (10 * 1/25 = 0.25 sec)
+      skipInitial: false,    // if previous detection resulted in no faces detected,
+                             // should skipFrames be reset immediately
       minConfidence: 0.2,    // threshold for discarding a prediction
       iouThreshold: 0.2,     // threshold for deciding whether boxes overlap too much in
                              // non-maximum suppression (0.1 means drop if overlap 10%)
@@ -154,6 +156,8 @@ export default {
                              // e.g., if model is running st 25 FPS, we can re-use existing bounding
                              // box for updated hand skeleton analysis as the hand probably
                              // hasn't moved much in short time (10 * 1/25 = 0.25 sec)
+    skipInitial: false,      // if previous detection resulted in no faces detected,
+                             // should skipFrames be reset immediately
     minConfidence: 0.1,      // threshold for discarding a prediction
     iouThreshold: 0.1,       // threshold for deciding whether boxes overlap too much
                              // in non-maximum suppression
diff --git a/demo/browser.js b/demo/browser.js
index cc84a9f3..98519a54 100644
--- a/demo/browser.js
+++ b/demo/browser.js
@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ import draw from './draw.js';
 import Menu from './menu.js';
 import GLBench from './gl-bench.js';
 
-// const userConfig = {}; // add any user configuration overrides
+const userConfig = {}; // add any user configuration overrides
 
+/*
 const userConfig = {
   backend: 'wasm',
   async: false,
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ const userConfig = {
   body: { enabled: false },
   hand: { enabled: false },
 };
+*/
 
 const human = new Human(userConfig);
 
diff --git a/src/handpose/handpipeline.ts b/src/handpose/handpipeline.ts
index 3d8ea872..d6ba37e4 100644
--- a/src/handpose/handpipeline.ts
+++ b/src/handpose/handpipeline.ts
@@ -90,7 +90,8 @@ export class HandPipeline {
       if (this.storedBoxes.length > 0) useFreshBox = true;
     }
     const hands: Array<{}> = [];
-    // log('hand', `skipped: ${this.skipped} max: ${config.hand.maxHands} detected: ${this.detectedHands} stored: ${this.storedBoxes.length} new: ${boxes?.length}`);
+
+    if (config.hand.skipInitial && this.detectedHands === 0) this.skipped = 0;
 
     // go through working set of boxes
     for (let i = 0; i < this.storedBoxes.length; i++) {
diff --git a/wiki b/wiki
index 35cb9ec1..c283c4a2 160000
--- a/wiki
+++ b/wiki
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 35cb9ec10d7036a8a2ec425c00798050dd9eafea
+Subproject commit c283c4a21d26dc0ba03e576dae8e6fbd3af12ac8