How good is your handwriting?

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My cursive writing style is very good now, but it took a lot of practice in my grade school years to get that way. I have had many older people comment that they can easily read my cursive compared to others around my age. My information sensitive research laboratory notebooks are written in a form of coded cursive to keep prying eyes from easily copying what I am working on. My printed writing style looks very sloppy unless I really concentrate on it. I would almost say a 5th grader can print better than I can.

Absolutely terrible!

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My handwriting has been and continues to be destroyed by the many psychiatric medications that I have to take. I don't know what these meds are doing to my brain.....

I think mine's really good, but as a child I used to have enforced extra handwriting lessons because it was terrible. Year 3 teacher spent a lot of time trying to help me to write properly. I went through a lot of changes to my handwriting in my teenage years, including having really tiny writing for a while that frustrated teachers that thought I was doing it deliberately to be difficult - I was actually just trying to make it neater, and smaller writing seemed to be easier to keep neat and tidy. Over time I realised that my writing was best if I made it quite long horizontally, and that's how it is now.

I used to have really large and messy handwriting. Nowadays, it's fairly good. I can be really neat but usually choose not to when just writing notes.

For me it depends. When I was in school, even as a little kid, I always had very beautiful and neat handwriting and many people commented on it. Now I have to focus and take my time for it to be beautiful. Probably because the first personal computers did not come out until I was in high school so everything in school was always hand written and if anything needed to be typed, we would hand write it first and then use a typewriter to type it. So now that I do most of my writing on a keyboard, my handwriting can be more sloppy. But if I take a little time I can make if very nice.

I now hear that they are no longer teaching cursive in school. I think that is a huge mistake. I am glad that we had to learn it. When my parents were in school in their country, they only taught cursive. The children did not learn print writing at all.

Readable but messy, because I prefer write quickly.
Especially after when I haven't touched a pen or pencil for more than a year.

Probably because back at school, when written lectures are involved I start last and finish first. Same with typing.

I can do various handwritings with enough effort. The neater the handwriting, the slower I write, which also puts my hand to strain.


Best irony of all, my mirror writing is more readable than my usual one. In either gothic or cursive. It's just as fast, the style is different, but not just as 'pretty' in any form of effort.

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Not so good. If I slow down it is better.

People with autism tend to have motor skills difficulties. Although other don't. One kid who sits in front of me has the most amazing penmanship I have ever seen. Mine is really bad. And I get writers cramp really fast.

I can write as well with my left hand as I can with my right. I've never even practiced with my left either. It's actually pretty easy when your handwriting is worse than a 1st graders.

Also, the only cursive I remember are the letters in my name. A couple of years ago my mom wanted me to sign something for her and I drew a complete blank. Just kind of nervously scribbled the best I could.

Two words: Chicken scratch

I go back and forth between cursive and print because if I wrote all in cursive it probably wouldn't be completely legible, some stuff I can't even read later once I forgot what was wrote down.

I just took a picture of some of my notes that I took for japanese and all thats about the only sample I can think to give but its pretty recent.

It's not the worst, but it's pretty bad.
I can't hold a pencil right.

My handwriting is pretty horrible for others to read.

In 1st grade, after about a week of being tortured learning how to write (with pointy straight pen/nib & ink bottle on newsprint paper) my parents moved us to a rural area and there were no more handwriting lessons....I think I remain about the same skill level; no letters ever look the same.