How's your handwriting?

[ksdaddy]

I can well imagine this is a problem that many of us have. I didn't get a computer and internet until 1999, a late bloomer I suppose. Since then I write very little by hand. My handwriting in school was always fair to good; I learned cursive in the third grade (1968) but of course developed some shortcuts and flourishes over the years. My handwriting was always legible and somewhat within the confines of normal everyday cursive. However since spending the bulk of my time typing over the last ten plus years, my handwriting is illegible. It is the worst. Borderline Doctor stuff. I try to slow down but I can't. My hand cramps up after a couple sentences. I'm betting it's just from disuse.

 

 

If I had written a third sentence, you would think I was having a conniption fit.

 

Anyone else losing the fine art of communicating with pen and paper?

[ShredAstaire]

I print....i never liked cursive writing...but I can print quite nicely and legibly...but yes, the hand cramps up shortly after I start. You end up shaking your hand out every couple of sentences....cursed technology!! Look what it has done to us!

[Blackie]

I can hardly remember how to write cursive.........so I go with print.

[dem00n]

I have horrible handwirting.

You cant read it 90% of the time.

[grampa]

I was in school in the early 50's so my handwriting is pretty good.

[Shnate McDuanus]

My print handwriting is decent--my cursive handwriting (developed from years of taking pages upon pages of notes) is really rather good.

[Andre S]

according to my teachers and a couple of other people I have very neat and tidy handwriting.

[daveinspain]

Mine is horrible... Computers with word processors are your friend....

[DanvillRob]

Mine sucks on ice.

[RichCI]

Both my brother and I have AWFUL handwriting - I mean REALLY BAD. It seems we got it from my father (his is rotten too) but my mother, on the other hand, writes beautifully. I love the electronic/internet age because I can type almost everything.

[milod]

The summer of '61 Dad talked me into a no-credit high school typing class. It wasn't too bad since I was the only boy.

 

Typing skills then saved me <grin> when we moved back east for him to do grad school and I could type stuff so the teachers actually could read what I wrote.

 

Then the line of work I'm in now forced me to improving typing speed... Now? I tend to take dictation on keyboard. My handwritten notes are a combination of cursive and kinda a personal "shorthand."

 

I love keyboards on the computer. I know the notes on the other kinda keyboard but... <grin>

 

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[Rocky4]

I've had checks come back because they couldn't read them.

[DAS44]

I've had checks come back because they couldn't read them.

I read about this guy who did his tax return papers in roman numerals.....

 

My handwriting' date=' legible but messy, a kinda hybrid between print and cursive. I [b']always[/b] sign my name in cursive though, its become a habit.

[FirstMeasure]

Mine starts out pretty nice but ends up Chicken Scratch!

[Californiaman]

I take great pride in my penmanship.

I've been a writer for many years.

When I was in high school back in the late '70s, my penmanship looked very bad.

However, for some reason, it's very good now-a-days.

[Silenced Fred]

My hand writing is so bad, doctors ask me to clarify

 

Lame jokes aside, its pretty bad. If I take my time, and not write 5000 words a minute, its kinda decent, but my handwriting is a combo of print and cursive.

[daveinspain]

Ever notice that Doctors have the worst hand writing? The weird thing is the Pharmacists always just have a quick look at the scripts and are like, oh yeah one minute please... I think it's a special code so people can't forge their own scripts...

[Silenced Fred]

Ever notice that Doctors have the worst hand writing? The weird thing is the Pharmacists always just have a quick look at the scripts and are like' date=' oh yeah one minute please...[blink'] I think it's a special code so people can't forge their own scripts...

 

Or they just give you random pills and hope for the best

 

I have no idea how they read it, but they can. Probably is code...

[The Mick]

I'm all print and it looks like poo poo

[Riffster]

I print/handwrite everything in caps with larger caps where you would use upper caps if that makes sense. Neat and tidy, if I write fast then neatness suffers. No cursive writing for me.

[Riverside]

Would have been the Valedictorian in the 6th grade, except for that troublesome "C" in penmanship...

 

I still believe that a handwritten letter (thank you, etc) goes a LONG way when trying to make a good impression - I know I appreciate it.

[tazzboy]

I too print as well since my cursive writing sucks. The only time I use cursive is when I am signing my signature other than that I print.

[retrosurfer1959]

My penmanship is pretty bad and tilts backwards to the left like a lefty but thankfully I worked as a graphic artist and did blueprints enough to have printing that looks like it's typed. The only thing people say is that I write so small that it is hard for people to see.

[jamman]

I have to print, as I can only read about half of it and yes computers are my friends too.lol!!!

[Dub-T-123]

This girl said I write like a vampire. I have no idea what that means but I have teeth like a vampire too.

 

I'm pretty sure that's not good.