Assuming you had to hand write out a page of text right now, what could you do most quickly in a legible fashion - cursive (specifically, the handwriting you learned in school as “cursive”) or print it?
This would be cursive for me. You may not be able to read it legibly, but if I had to write out a complete page just printing neat enough to read, then my hand would be aching for an hour after I finished.
I have forgotten cursive, with a little luck I might be able to make it through the alphabet, but it would take a while.
The only thing I know how to spell in cursive is my name…so if I were to write a page full of nothing but my name, crazy-movie-guy style, cursive would be faster. Otherwise, the printing.
Printing, although my fast printing is a weird amalgamation of print and cursive. It’s like print letters sort of half-assedly looped together.
I also do the print + cursive combo. Except when I’m signing and then it’s just J + squiggle.
I don’t think I can answer either of the options, while I still hand-write notes and sometimes first drafts, I sort of half-print and half-cursive. I think it’s primarily printing with the most convenient cursive shortcuts thrown in, and sometimes I write letters, such as the “s” both ways depending on where in the word they land. It would be slower for me to try to do one or the other alone.
It’s really the same speed exactly. I prefer the way printing looks on the screen to how cursive looks. But I can type either one just as fast. You don’t mean old fashioned note taking, do you? Cuz I type like 10 times as fast as I write.
Yeah, stone-age making-marks-on-paper is in fact what I’m referring to
Cursive. I write hand written notes fairly often and I always write them. If I need to print I find it a bit ponderous.
Both are illegible, but I print everything but my signature. So print wins by default. I don’t think King Tut could read my cursive.
My cursive is miles faster than my printing, but I find it easier to abbreviate with printing. So school notes are printed and letters are cursive.
Cursive, hands down.
Doesn’t matter 'cause you can’t read either one.
Cursive, by a country mile.
Cursive here. Although when I get out the full caligraphic pen set, it can take five minutes for just one four letter word. Makes vandalism very risky.
It would be interesting to see an age breakdown here. I bet the old timers would befaster cursive writers by a signifigant margin.
Cuirsive is faster, but less legible.
My cursive stopped looking like what I was taught in school decades ago. My current “handwriting” (as opposed to printing) is a combination of connected and unconnected letters.
Looking at the to-do list right next to me:
tra cki ng / s prea d shee ts
con ta c ts / Me tr o
con ta c ts / Chi r o / E c on
i n ter vi ewee s
i dea s / for / Sep t / Me tr o
i dea s / for / O c t / heal th
emai l / Munson
emai l / Dave / H
Basically I connect to the next letter unless it’s faster not to.
When I’m scribbling, I’m the only one who can read it, but when I’m writing for legibility, I slow down but basically form the letters in the same way.
Yeah, that’s my default mode. When I think of printing, I think of the ‘lettering’ that draftsman use(d) on their drawings. The only cursive I use is my signature and that’s not really legible except for the first character.
Um, well, I know hell and damn and bit…
if it was all words then cursive.