How's your handwriting these days?

[Rubycon]

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Handwriting's fine here but I have to wonder how many people have this "problem"?

I see more and more people using crackberries too.

 

[Elderly Newt]

I recently started writing in cursive for the first time in about a decade - I didn't remember how to write certain letters at first, but it's fine now.

 

[RGUN]

I havent written cursive in years, printing fast kind of looks like cursive though since it all runs together... coincidentally I go to one of the schools mentioned in the article too.

 

[Brainonska511]

Haven't used cursive beyond my signature since elementary school (8-10 years now). But my handwriting is perfectly legible in my print handwriting.

 

[RichUK]

Funny you should say that. I always produce my documentation via word processing, as i imagine most people do. However, just the other day i had to fill in a form, only then did i realise how much the appearance of my handwriting had deteriorated.

My handwriting was akin to chicken scratches :shocked:

In ten years time, i will most likely have forgotten how to hold a pen.

 

[Xstatic1]

hi! my name is Xstatic1 and i have a handwriting problem. <sniff sniff>

<------------i really do. i hate having to pick up a pen to write something. i type 10x faster than i can write. ugh!

 

[novasatori]

my handwriting has always sucked - when it must be completely legible I have to write in block letters, which unfortunately is very slow, so on tests I get to use my fast chicken scratch...

I'd hate to be my professors. Luckily I get to type all my important assignments besides tests.

 

[James Bond]

I used to have decent handwriting... but now its absolutely horrible because I never need to do it.

Cursive? I don't even want to try

edit: typo

 

[Tiamat]

people blame everything before they blame themselves. tsk tsk.

 

[Ika]

Still in school, so my handwriting is as good as ever. Though my cursive has suffered a bit since I switched to half-print writing; I almost forgot how to write a cursive capital S.

 

[crystal]

Are you saying my chicken scraws unreadable?

 

[Rockinacoustic]

People say I write like a typewriter

 

[Juno]

i can't write perfectly.

i feel so bad that almost everyone cannot read my writing...

 

[EGGO]

Everybody always comments on my handwriting. I find that writing in pencil makes it neater too.

 

[Lonyo]

I take all my notes in lectures by hand, but type my essays.

 

[Madwand1]

Handwriting has been in general decline for a long time already. Much of my generation had really poor handwriting compared to previous generations, despite having no general access to computers / etc., as they were growing up.

I recently saw a PBS "History Detectives" episode titled something like "Islam in America", which featured a "frontier farmer" woman's school notebook. Part of that episode emphasized how remarkable it was that a woman at that time would have an education at all, and yet her script would amaze most of us.

This link has a little picture of her writing.

http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigations/211_koran.html

 

[Xyo II]

I've used cursive writing for pretty much everything since middle school. My handwriting still sucks, though.

 

[Horus]

Toronto schools all suck. My apologies.

My handwriting has always sucked, even in elementary school. When do I ever use it? When writing exams, really. That's it.

 

[OS]

dead and worthless skill besides signing your name

 

[Zenmervolt]

I suppose the fact that I have a fountain pen and a supply of parchment for written correspondence would make me something of an anachronism.

ZV

 

[Bibble]

The last time I was required to write in script for school was 5th grade. By the time I took the SATs I had forgotten about half of the cursive alphabet (You have to write a sentence in cursive saying that you are who you say you are). It was the hardest part of the SATs, and we actually went over cursive for 10 minutes in my SAT prep class because no one remembered cursive.

I never learned to hold a pen/pencil 'correctly', and after 2nd grade my parents/teachers stopped trying to teach me.

I can't even write my whole last name in cursive correctly. I have no idea how to link "vin" properly. It doesn't really matter though, I find most people's signatures barely resemble their names.

I do, however, use a pen/pencil every day to take notes in class or just to write things down I need to remember/tell people. I just write in print, it works fine for me.

I don't see why children are still taught to write in cursive, it is never used outside of their signature. Once they can do that, I say move on and teach them more important things like math.

 

[IronWing]

My penmanship sucks but it has nothing to do w/ computers, it always sucked.

 

[mugs]

My (cursive) handwriting sucks, but I don't care and I don't blame it on computers. I blame it on my lack of desire to write in cursive.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Bibble

It doesn't really matter though, I find most people's signatures barely resemble their names.

This is true. I sign my name MMl <-- lower-case L (my first initial is M and my last name starts with M and ends with L). So it's basically a scribble and a loop.

 

[Ronstang]

It is funny that you mention this because I was just thinking about it the other day. I had to make a handwritten list of items for a project I am working on and I simply could not write. It was barely legible. I switched over to printing and the result was better but I have never been able to print. My cursive writing was always decent because I never had a problem with teachers being able to read my writing and I used to take a lot of notes while in school. Nowadays I type everything. The good news is my typing has gotten really good in both speed and accuracy......but I now struggle to write simply because I am so out of practice.