How Is Your Handwriting?

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I know this post will suck because I, as the OP, won't even post a pic of my handwriting. I'm 59 so I write in cursive, or something, in my notes. I had drafting classes so I write in legible script at times, and I draw old school landscape drawings and I can write very artistically to communicate with the customer in those. A thought just crossed my mind that I needed to do tomorrow so I wrote a note on the pad by my keyboard and I noticed how wonderful and legible it was! I usually scribble and can't read my own crap! lol I was diagnosed with some crap in 3rd grade where they thought that I think faster than I can write so I am several words ahead of my fingers. I don't know, maybe I should have been a doctor and I would have an excuse! lol
What's your excuse for bad handwriting?
 
My handwriting has always been pretty bad. I know (knew) curive but never use it. But these days my handwriting is almost illegible even to me.
I'm pretty sure the reason is... I literally never write anything by hand. For several years now. At work I just use a computer, or or type notes on a phone. Like (aside from below) I cannot even remembert he last time I hand write more than 2 sentences.

But now recently I've started working on a secure project at work, and in certain circumstances there's no electronics allowed. Had to bust out the note pad. Holy crap, I need to start working on this.
 
Mine has always been pretty terrible. Not sure if carpel tunnel/technique or what ever i always grip the pen too much and my hand cramps up quickly. When trying to write notes fast it end up being half cursive and not legible .
 
I didn’t speak until I was 3, so the doctors thought I was ‘slow’. When I did start speaking, it was several word-above-my-age-vocabulary…but I stuttered (still do some times) and had a helluva speech impediment. So the doctors thought I was a special kind of slow. By 3rd grade no one could read my writing, I guess that was a prerequisite for passing at the time because teachers wanted me held back, but I aced every other test…and they decided to let me go until I failed. Long story short, I still write like shit, with zero consistency in penmanship ‘style’, and I’m probably still a special kind of slow. In a college criminal law course, we did an exercise in analyzing handwriting…I was told my lack of consistency in slant, pressure, size, etc was astounding…solidifying how special I am.
 
My handwriting was pretty good until I learned cursive. I could make cursive very neat and legible, but it took a lot of effort and was slow. After a few years of only being allowed to use cursive in school I got a teacher who DGAF if you used print or cursive, so in an attempt to do my homework faster I tried to go back to print, but it always looked like shit. Now so much stuff is electronic I hardly write anything anymore.

Duane
 
UTfball68 said:
I didn’t speak until I was 3, so the doctors thought I was ‘slow’. When I did start speaking, it was several word-above-my-age-vocabulary…but I stuttered (still do some times) and had a helluva speech impediment. So the doctors thought I was a special kind of slow. By 3rd grade no one could read my writing, I guess that was a prerequisite for passing at the time because teachers wanted me held back, but I aced every other test…and they decided to let me go until I failed. Long story short, I still write like shit, with zero consistency in penmanship ‘style’, and I’m probably still a special kind of slow. In a college criminal law course, we did an exercise in analyzing handwriting…I was told my lack of consistency in slant, pressure, size, etc was astounding…solidifying how special I am.
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oh you're special all right.
 
took drafting classes in high school, and went into the engineering field. always print everything in upper case, with capital letters larger than lower case. then CADD came along, both my printing and cursive just ain't what it used to be. although i still get some compliments when i take my time to fill out office forms for medical, loans, etc.
 
Depends on what I'm doing.
Just for me ..... it's atrocious. Sometimes I can't even read it! lol
It all started waaay back when I got my first Palm Pilot. (remember those?)
The Palm script was easy and simple, and it translated well to when I was copying morse code on ham radio.
I can write in cursive better than print .... decent looking and more readable.
I do that when it's stuff other folks need to read.
 
I NEVER write in cursive other than to sign my name. My hand writing didn't progress past about 2nd grade. That's ok though because I am an Ingeneer and good at math.
 
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Mine is Ok. I don't have to do a lot of writing at work but on my free time I tend to write down a lot of ideas. I lost the skill of cursive by the time I graduated high school though.
 
I havent written more than a couple sentences in print since the third grade when I learned cursive. If Im just taking notes for myself, others often struggle to read it. But when I take my time I can write very nicely. I do a lot of field sketches for work and those captions and what not are about the only thing I write in print, and its all caps.
 
Writing notes and such, I’m a potato using dull crayons. Yep, pretty much sums it up. Transcribing digits though, I’m a finely skilled brain surgeon. Guess it has to do with my job in the Army. Poor writing of grids off the map is a bad thing when trying to plot for high explosives lol
 
mine =

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Both of my parents have really neat handwriting, but very different. My dad writes in all caps and my mom writes in cursive, so I picked up a little of both. I don't think my handwriting is neat unless I try, but people do tell me that I have good penmanship.
 
Loudmouthbass said:
took drafting classes in high school, and went into the engineering field. always print everything in upper case, with capital letters larger than lower case. then CADD came along, both my printing and cursive just ain't what it used to be. although i still get some compliments when i take my time to fill out office forms for medical, loans, etc.
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I'm the same way, EVERYTHING is in caps. Cursive is difficult for me now that I've been not using it for over 30 years.

Story, my mom always tells,.......They were at a Gun raffle and knows the MC, Super smart guy Graduated college when he was 18, has law degree is actually a partner in the Edwards Jones firm very well off. He attempted to read an entry and said they would have to go back and announce it later because he wasn't able to read the name. He came back to the table my mom was at and she asked him about the name, it was in cursive and he confessed he couldn't read cursive. She said to him I understand my Grandon (my son) can't read it because they didn't teach it in school now, but he you are the about the same age as me. He said well when he was skipping grades they skipped him over the handwriting classes so he never learned.
 
When i was in college, I wrote in print, very small, and legible. As mentioned above, it was all capitals, and easy to read. Since school, I cant recall how many times I have written anything of length, likely just a few. My oldest's teacher had them start writing letters to their parents each Friday, talking about what they learned that week. The parents are supposed to write them a letter back in response over the weekend. Me and the wife switch off doing that, and it is painful. The mild carpel-tunnel that I have in my right hand is fully flared up after writing a letter back to him. And its hardly legible too, at the same time. I cant imagine the discomfort if i printed it like I did in the past.
 
My cursive is pretty good, probably because I have to focus to do it. My "everyday" writing is terrible, and I'm very inconsistent. My signature is illegible, so that's how you know I'm important.
 
My hand writing has never been great, and very seldom is it "good". I spent 23 years in restaurant management, I communicated with my employees via a bulletin board, on which, I would post notes with a space for everyone to sign once they have read the post. I changed stores periodically to go the the worse stores to chase the bonus money. I always sought out someone with good handwriting to re-write my post, so it was readable to all. I also kept a dictionary, well, because my spelling wasn't all that great either. Now, truth be told, I'd be lost without spell check. Since my health turned, so has my writing, due to the lack of feeling in my hands. I write lists often so I don't forget to get this or that when I go to town. Sometimes, it takes me a bit to figure out what I have wrote.
 
My grandma passed in 86. She had the most beautiful - and legible - cursive. Wrote it fast, too.

I can print good and fast...straight, symmetrical, like an old school draftsman. My cursive is, and has always been, absolutely horrible. It like the control nerves in my hand short-circuit when I do cursive.
 
Mom was a teacher for 28 years and her handwriting and cursive both look like a stamp. Absolutely the same every time. My dad had weird hand writing, but legible.

Here I am, left handed, generally write in all caps, and my cursive is pretty good too. I have to write a lot of stuff at work. Notes, quick little prints for parts, etc.. I'm bad about going from print to cursive in the same word though.
 
I've never had good cursive even when I tried and tried. I flunked 12th grade because of it. I was enrolled in a Fish and Wildlife course @ WCC before my HS class graduated, 1984. I loved the course and had great grades but again my writing was killing me. My English teacher had a very dark complexion and marked all over my papers and many other friends in his class, It had to be about perfect. I think he didn't like the redneck T shirts we wore. I struggled through the first year and was getting better w my writing but my hand would cramp up after writing for 10/20 mins. We had a career day and we got to talk to biology, marine biology, game warden peeps etc. I wanted to be a GW in N.C. but we and classmates were told there was a waiting list and it could be 3 or 5 years to get a job here. One GW honestly told us that you really need know somebody in the gov. to get a job in enforcement. I quit and went back to surveying where I worked in the summers in high school. I can write #s just fine and draw but the only cursive I write is my name, everything else is Abcdefgh.........
 
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