           <p>
             <span className="bold">Site:</span> {@state.location}
             <label className="skip-checkbox-label" htmlFor="skip-checkbox">
-              <input ref="skipCheckbox" type="checkbox" id="skip-checkbox" onClick={@onClickSkipCheckbox}/> Skip images?
+              <input ref="skipCheckbox" defaultChecked={@props.user?.preferences?.chimp?.skip_first_step is "true"} type="checkbox" id="skip-checkbox" onClick={@onClickSkipCheckbox}/> Skip images?
             </label>
             <button className="tutorial-btn" onClick={@openTutorial.bind(null, "general")}>Tutorial</button>
             <a href="https://www.zooniverse.org" target="_blank"><button className="faq-btn">FAQs</button></a>

Subject = require 'zooniverse/models/subject'
Favorite = require 'zooniverse/models/favorite'
Classification = require 'zooniverse/models/classification'

module?.exports = React.createClass
  displayName: 'Classify'

    checkbox = e.target

    if checkbox.checked is true
      @setUserSkipPreference(true)
      @setState skipImages: true
    else
      @setUserSkipPreference(false)
      @setState skipImages: false

  setUserSkipPreference: (value) ->
    User.current?.setPreference 'skip_first_step', value

  render: ->
    classifyClasses = cx
