According to my cursive, I should have been a doctor. However, thanks to spending 12 years on the drafting board (up until 20 years ago), my printing is still top notch and is what I use 99% of the time.
I think it means your "r"s have to be slanted, not have a flat top. See here.
My handwriting is appalling. It’s totally inconsistent - sometimes my As are like this, sometimes they’re like that. It spiders all over the page. I think I lack the motor control required - though I can draw reasonably well, but only if I’m using pastels or pencil to make multiple lines. I can’t read my own writing much of the time, so I usually revert to all-caps. The invention of the computer has been a total boon for me.
Exactly. You should stroke up past the midway point, then to the right with a slight dip to the second point, then straight down.
Another one of my underrated talents is the ability to draw in cursive backward, so if you hold it in front of a mirror you can read it.
It’s not as pretty as my forward cursive, granted, but if anyone ever needs anyone with this talent, I’m the woman for your job.
It was never good, and over the past ten or so years it has gotten really bad.
No one can read my handwriting. Not even me.
Seriously.
I have beautiful writing in both cursive and print. I have check-out clerks and bank tellers comment on how lovely it is; once, at the supermarket, the clerks passed around one of my checks to admire the printing/cursive combo.
My father also has beautiful cursive and printing. It’s much like mine (or, rather, mine is much like his). I think the cursive I learned is the Palmer Method.
On a sidenote: I’m finding that more and more of my college students are unable to read/write cursive. They tell me that they don’t teach handwriting anymore. Yeek!
I have beautiful handwriting. Even when I’m printing as fast as I can, it’s legible and nice to look at it. It’s not quite copperplate, but I like it. I usually print, though, since my fast cursive looks like a tangle. When I write slowly in cursive, though, it’s quite lovely.
I credit it to a couple years of calligraphy in middle school and doing lots of other things that require fine motor skills. So, for you people with sloppy handwriting, take up knitting and embroidery and calligraphy, and stop holding the pen so damn tight. It’s not going to bite you.
As a kid my handwriting was awful. Now I get compliments on both my cursive and printing. People are even more impressed when they realize I’m left-handed.
I honestly think the biggest difference is unlike my years in school, I’m never forced to write at a desk made for a right-handed person any more. Your hand and wrist tire quickly when held at an unnatural angle, and that makes your writing worse.
My handwriting is either aesthetically beautiful or ‘‘legible’’ depending on my mood and the reason I’m writing. I can write lovely, looping and sophisticated messages on greeting cards, but if I’m writing pages of fiction or a grocery list, chances are it’ll be some kind of irreverent cursive/print hybrid that’s readable but not too impressive.
Nevermind my handwriting. How’s you grammar?
I started taking my class notes on my laptop, because when I’d go back before finals to review my notes, I couldn’t read them.
I can make it legible if I have time.
I remember being taught cursive at school and for a long time my hand writing did look like the link that was posted.
Now it is ridiculously bad. It really started to decline when I was doing my A-levels at school - the massive amount of note taking meant my brain was working faster than my hand could write. I have to really concentrate when writing cards etc now so that it can be legible. Other wise no chance anyone else can read it.
Dreadful. It has saved me from taking minutes at countless meetings.
The opposite of mine was one guy I knew in Bell Labs. He could take absolute transcriptions of meetings, in flawless penmanship, while still participating in the discussion. It was like the words flowed from his ears directly to his hand. He was amazing.
I have horrible handwriting. I always blame it on the fact that my father was a doctor.
I’m an engineer, which means I have horrible spelling and grammar too.
(I would have just misspelled grammar there if Firefox hadn’t underlined it!)
Terrible. I gave up writing script in college and printed everything. Now, even that’s hard to read.
I do all my notes on keyboards now.
My handwriting is ugly, inconsistent and childish. All that can be said for it is that it is generally legible, but artistically, it’s lacking.
In high school I eventually took pity on my teachers and started printing everything. No one ever asked to borrow the notes I took, that’s for sure.
If I slow down and take my time, it’s readable. Though if I just write, I think I would be the only one to understand it. “Neat” or not, I don’t like my own handwriting. I would rather type it out.