When I was in school, penmanship was a big deal. The nuns really pushed us to have neat, legible, pretty handwriting. I find it going downhill lately. Maybe too much time at a keyboard vs actual writing, maybe it's a Vintage thing?

In addition to the handwriting going downhill, I find I'm not consistent with my style of handwriting.

Sometimes I write an upper case (formerly known as a Capital) S, or R the way I was taught in Penmanship class, other times, I write it to look like like this > S or R, sometimes both ways on the same page, envelope...

I think someone who analyzes handwriting would have a field day with me.

How's your handwriting?

 

I have been questioned on numerous occasions if I am a doctor when people see me write.
My brain always went faster than my hand could keep up with.
My actual handwriting essentially no longer exists. It degenerated to the point of illegibility years ago.
Now I print and have a hard time reading that later.
Funny thing is when I do write longhand now, it's very good but takes me forever to write anything.

 

Fine -- when I slow down. I find myself trying to write as fast as I type (it feels "normal" that way), and then my handwriting goes all to pieces. But if I slow down, all's well.

I was always an "A" student in grade school until Cursive came along. I came home with a "C", and my Mother threw a fit. My first homework, imposed by her and not the school, was Cursive practice. Ycch. HPH

 

Being a lefty, I have always had horrible handwriting. Even though i went to a public school, I still remember getting smacked on the hand for not being able to write clearly. Mrs. Burkett Colfax Elementary 1962. I hated that woman!

 

My handwrting has always been consistently bad. I blame it on frantic notes-taking during my younger years. One regular habit is not connecting letters together, thus looking like a mix of cursive and printing.

 

^^Yeah, but she's probably dead now. So you get the last laugh! HPH

 

I suck at handwriting and print everything except my signature. I was bad at it in 3rd grade and as soon as I could print papers, like in 7th grade, I did. Good thing about being a math/physics major is it's mostly numbers and a few letters. I do put a vertical line through my zees z so I know they aren't twos 2, and through my zeros 0 so I know they aren't ohs o .

 

Me too.

 

ME THREE.... ...IN CAPS

 

I don't do cursive. Too many years of writing on white/chalk boards and filling out forms. I remember the misspent days of my youth when I could write my name in the snow in cursive, but these days I have to settle for Morse Code.