Snowman 8 (and the “head” is teeny tiny and the “body” is big and fat)
Right handed
Possibly not the MOST mundane and pointless, but a pretty good show none-the-less.
I am righthanded. When I am trying to be legible, I make snowman 8’s. When I’m just jotting something down quickly, I make racetrack 8’s, but this is problematic because they are frequently illegible. I cross my 7’s but not my 0’s. Oh, and I turn numbers into plurals by adding 's.
Well, I draw my 8s both ways, it just depends. I’ve tried to pay attention and see if it matters if I’m going fast or slow or what, but often in the same math problem I’ll have snowman 8s and racetrack 8s.
My students (I teach Algebra I, so my kids are “first year students”) always notice me crossing Zs right off. I decided a couple of weeks ago that I’m going to start crossing my 7s. I’m still not into it yet, but I’m trying. In so doing I’ve actually got about 3 students started crossing 7s. LOL! I’m not sure I like it though, because I often make my ones like 1 instead of just a stick (again, just sometimes one or the other), so my crossed 7 kind of matches if I’m going to fast with them (can’t tell if the line is in the middle or on the bottom). I do put a little thingy on the front of my sevens though. It takes me three movements (I don’t lift my pencil), up just a tiny big, over across the top, then the downstroke, if that makes sense.
I also make my fives in two motions, which usually results in the “hat” being way far away from the body, becuase I often write fast. Hee hee.
I don’t cross my zeros because we use the zero with a slash through it for the “no solution” answer in this book (which suddenly makes me wonder what the is difference between “no solution” and “null set” and if I’ve been out of higher level math too long!)
I’m right handed. I also don’t have a set handwriting pattern. I often switch between cursive and print within the same piece of writing, be it paragraph, sentence, and occassionally even within the same word. There are several letters, especially upper case ones, where I have two ways of writing them, that never seem to correlate to whether I’m printing or using cursive.
I hope that’s not abnormal!
RachelChristine, you are very, very, decidedly wierd. Should fit in just fine! 
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Snowman eights for me, ever since drafting class in my junior year of high school. Drafting class also changed the way I wrote my nines.
Racetrack 8s. Crossed 7s and Zs. Looped 2s that often end up looking like curly Ls.
I used to cross 0s, but I’m a busy man and now I only cross them when writing product keys or serial numbers, where I really need to distinguish between a zero and a letter O. Actually, in elementary school, I used to fill in my 0s, until a substitute teacher chewed me out: “Finish your work first, then you can color.”
I print both snowmen and racetrack 8s and there doesn’t seem to be a great deal of consistency over which one I use when. Apparently I prefer the racetrack variety because that’s what I use more often.
I can’t seem to get a consistent one-stroke nine that I like so I don’t use it often.
I’m a 7 and Z slasher. I also slash 0’s when in a line of alpha-numeric text.
I also write phone numbers without the dash. Makes people around me crazy!
Oh boy! A thread that focuses on one weirdness of mine (of many)…
I do racetrack 8’s starting at the bottom. I picked up this habit in grade school and have never been able to break it.
Kind of odd since my S’s start at the top.
I have been forced against my will to write 8’s from the top occasionally because the “graffiti” writing on a Palm Pilot only recognizes the “standard” figure eight.
Depends on if I’m in a hurry or trying to be neat. I took some drafting classes in high school and they taught the snowman style. I still use it when I want to be neat.
Righthanded, BTW.
Snowman 8s.
I was corrected by my kindergarten teacher for doing this (she did not think this was the correct way to make 8s) and did make the racetrack version for my early elementary school years. Then I realized that I like the snowman way better.
I’m right-handed.
This Scalextric right hander is absolutely gobsmacked by the number of snowmanners there are on here.
Are the Scalextricers mostly people like me who write cursive and the snowmanners mostly printers?
Backwards - starting at bottom - racetrack - bottom loop twice as large as top -
Right handed, snowmen 8s and crossed 7s.
One time, at work, I was writing a number down for someone and she saw the way I make my 8s and she interrupted my writing to comment on how odd it was. So we went around to several other people in the office asking them to draw 8s so we could see who was odd. It turns out I was the only one who did it my way.
I do the scalectrix version. BUT I start at the top right and go clockwise down over to the left then curve around to the bottom right, head back up to the top left and finish off by curving the top over to the right. Seems most people start counter-clockwise.
Oh, I’m right-handed and I don’t cross 7s or Zs or slash 0s. My handwriting numbers resemble the Garamond 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 (except not quite as bold)
I have no idea what a “Scalextric” is but I do print all my letters and I do snowman 8s. Years ago my Cursive became too unreadable even for me. My printed letters, though, have become highly stylized - not exactly regulation block lettering.
THat’s how I make my 8s as well. Although they rarely ever meet at the top, so it looks like a cirlce with a u on top(which I coulda sworn was a greek letter, but I can’t find it anywhere.)
And yes, I cross my 7s and Zs(upper and lower)
Right hander
Snowman 8s
Uncrossed 7s
Uncrossed zs, though in math I would make the z look like a script z to avoid confusion with a 2.
How about 9s? I make a 9 by starting at the bottom and drawing it in one continuous motion, forming the loop counterclockwise and ending at the intersection.
People make fun of my 8s all the time–picture the two circles as clocks, top clock is smaller. I start at the top clock five o’clock position, go counter-clockwise over the top, hit six o’clock, then continue around the bottom, again counter-clockwise and connect at noon. Okay, that makes no sense at all. Picture writing a 3 backwards, with closed loops. It makes for an attractive 8, but I’ve had people watching me write ask “what the hell are you doing?”
Oops, right handed, and a 7/Z crosser. And my As are little deltas.