Yes. They are according to my dictionary’s definition of draw, anyway.
This applies to me also. And I print. I do not cross my Zs, 7s, or 0s. I used to add the extra lines to my 1s, rather than drawing them as single lines, but people frequently mistook them for 2s. Apparently a lot of people write their 2s as three separate lines, with only a slight curve in the top-right. I always write mine in one round motion, starting at the top-left, curving downward, and making a loop at the bottom. Is that unusual? How do you folks write your 2s?
I make both kinds of 8s in equal proportion. I don’t know why.
I cross my 7s and my Zs. I slash my 0s when appropriate. (i.e. it’s vital to the understanding… math, order forms, etc.) I learned most of this in calculus.
My writing is a mish-mash of cursive and printing, upper and lowercase letters are used with reckless abandon. I discovered a few years ago that this is exactly how my father writes. I must have picked it up from notes and such in childhood.
I make one fluid motion with the 2, starting at the top left and continuing down… no loop, just an angle at the bottom.
My lowercase Gs are almost typographical, but they’re really just racetrack eights on the line rather than under it. To make real typographic Gs (two circles connected with a line and a little flair on top) you have to start at 12 o’clock, make a circle back to 12 an continue it to 6, make a squiggly down and add another circle. Then you can flair the top to your hearts desire. They look cool that way.
My 4s sometimes connect at the top but recently have been more of a lazy y shape, start at top left, make a small u shape and extend the line down. I don’t like those, so I’m trying to get back in the habit of closed 4s, but I start at the top, make a < and then draw a line down from that.
Right handed, racetrack or snowman, depends on my mood. I also cross my 7s and Zs.
I print but my writing style changes faily often. Right now I’m in a lowercase phase. When writing in uppercase my As are little deltas like MixieArmadillo.
I write the numbers 4 and 9 just like you see them here in print. Single line for each starting from the bottom. I also write an ampersand like it’s typed…& <— looks like that.
I have some friends at work who write their eights racetrack style from the bottom up and counterclockwise (I think it’s an eastern Euopean thing as that’s where they’re all from and they all do it the same way…or maybe I just need to get out more :)).
Racetrack method, from top, but there are no straight lines in my 8s. My lowercase 'a’s are like a backwards 6 with a tail. People have confused them for 2s. I’m with Nurobath on the 4, 9, and &. I cross my zeros sometimes but never Zs or 7s. FTR I stink at cursive so there’s probably no correlation there.
Oh and for writing/drawing that would be right handed, but for any other purpose it doesn’t matter.
While at work, for reasons specific to that situation, I always put a slash through my zeroes and write my ones just like the typed “1”. Outside of work I usually don’t bother doing either of those.
My hand printed lower-case “r” tends to look like my hand printed lower-case “v”; I tend to go back and try to make the r’s look more like the typed “r”.
Right handed, snowman 8’s… all the way, BABY!! And my handwriting is a mix of cursive and print, which drives me batty. My SO thinks my script is pretty but then again… he’s a man.
Realizing that my EIGHT’s were becoming discombobulated, sloppy, disproportionate, slanted-to-the-right travesties, I had to make a conceited effort to change my writing style to the “inferior” snowman method, obsessing over the consistency and shape of the two "O"s that sat one on top of the other.
For over a year, I stuck with this method, until I began to notice that, once again, in a rush, my EIGHTS were not living up to standard. Sometimes, the two "O"s (drawn counter-clockwise, top, then bottom) would not even be touching (aaahh!!!) or I would fail to close the circle’s properly.
There was no excuse. I resolved to taking more time with my numbers, and decided to switch back to the racetrack method, making sure that the "O"s did not become squeezed into lop-sided ovals and that the tip of my pencil did, infact, stop in the correct place as to prevent an unneccesary line sticking out of the top of the number.
Today, my racetrack EIGHT’s look not unlike my snowman EIGHT’s, and I can, with full confidence, use both methods interchangably.
