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Mine is awful, a complete fucking indecipherable spidery mess. What's yours like? What amkes one person's neat and another person's atrocious?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 8 September 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

It's about average, nothing particularly remarkable about it. Apparently it is identical to a lot of people I know, it has been confused with other people's handwriting a lot.

― Larcole (Nicole), Monday, 8 September 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Other people say I have got neat handwriting & I guess it is to a point. If I am in a hurry though it's for shit!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 8 September 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

My handwriting is full of vitality, character, individuality and flourishes. It is incomprehensible and unreadable.

― Alex K (Alex K), Monday, 8 September 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

mine is wild and untamed. not necessarily messy but I have adopted all sorts of swirls and shit over the years. it depends on the pen im using too.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 8 September 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

what alex k said.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Monday, 8 September 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, really does depend on the pen. and also the material we're writing on. and what's beneath the material. and what I had for breakfast.

mine is OK.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 September 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

mine is large

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 8 September 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

we should scan examples in.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 8 September 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

My hand is ridiculously tiny (very often in school I had teachers give me papers back ungraded with a note saying "print this or rewrite it bigger it hurts my eyes") and somewhat sloppy in that some letters look like others (lower-case "r" and "v", fr'instance). Also, cuz I'm a lefty, the ink often gets smeared across the page, depending on the pen.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 September 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

i write so rarely now, except for signing my name on things, that my hand starts to cramp up after a postcard sized amount on writing. from what i remember of it my handwriting was spikey and slanted.

― angela (angela), Monday, 8 September 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

My handwriting is atrocious, the product of years of draft writing before typing soley for self-decyrption that has now seeped into my notes to others. Strangely enough my (sometime) G-friend loves it!

― Nathan W (Nathan Webb), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I never quite learned cursive handwriting; I'd been using computers for a few years before we got to that in school, which was unusual 20-odd years ago and probably isn't anymore. My handwriting is printing; it's nearly always in all-caps, unless I'm scribbling something very fast. Even my signature is printed: I jiggle it up a little so that it's more than just this:

http://www.idea-inc.com/~bill/hw.jpg

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

does being able to draw help you be able to write?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Mine is quite neat and readable. I think managers who leave notes in a disgusting unreadable scrawl should be sent on a handwriting course.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to be an awesome draughtsman when I was a kid, but my handwriting's always been shite.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 8 September 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never liked mine that much but it's a lot better than some. I do find writing more than a few lines quite slow and painful these days (hand muscles are used to typing now, I guess).

I find it curious and endearing when a beautiful woman has appalling handwriting.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 8 September 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I think mostly mine is legible, except when I'm in a hurry, then it tends to be sloppy. My friend - who is very odd herself - describes it as 'funky'.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 8 September 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The part of Tep that deals with handwriting is part of the half that he shares with me, except that my signature is just a messy 'A' followed by two squiggly lines.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 8 September 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, my actual signature is like .. that up there, only the I and the Ls run together (cause it just goes wump wonk wonk anyway), and then the TE goes inside the umbrella part of the K so I don't have to write an apostrophe.

(And letters with curves in them -- Ss, Ps, Es, Cs, and so on -- I write from the bottom up, not the top down.)

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 8 September 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I like mine as it appears relaxed and free, most unlike me.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 8 September 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

mine depends on my mood and how much of a hurry i'm in.

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 8 September 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

When small and wee, I learned cursive laboriously like the models in my grade school class, and followed it to the best of my ability. It was pretty bleah. At a certain point I realized I printed better than I wrote, and at another point that I typed far more quickly than I printed. The only evidence of my handwriting that regularly surfaces now is the at-a-severe-angle hyperscrawl that is my signature.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

the models in my grade school class

Heh, yes, the supermodels and all (I meant to say more the posted handwriting models of cursive up on the wall, showing big A little a big B little b etc.).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

we should scan examples in.

http://deanna.ladyinterference.com/ilx/quickscan09082003.gif

*cringes*

I'll have you know that's NOT the best example of my handwriting. My hands are just being exceedingly uncooperative and carpal tunnel-y today.

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

My handwriting is retarded poo, and has gotten worse since I started using computers (ie I dont write enough anymore). Partly because my brain goes way faster than my hand can, so it comes out a jumbly mess.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

My handwriting has a split personality. No really. It varies radically from day to day, making truly disconcerting switches from small to large, slanty to ruler-straight, and tidy to considerably less so.

― mouse, Tuesday, 9 September 2003 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

My handwriting used to be beautiful ... perfect lines and slants and loops. I was so proud of it. And then I developed neurological problems and cannot write more than a line or two before my hand cramps to the point where it's useless. I have the same problem with printing, only not nearly as bad. But I can doodle for hours with no problem ... it seems to have to do with the tension placed on the muscles to perform specific actions as opposed to the muscles moving freer and more impromptu.

My mother and sister are both elementary school teachers. They have developed 'school handwriting' that they use with their students, which is clear and legible and fairly close to prescribed appearance. But their 'personal handwriting' is attrocious.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 03:52 (twenty-two years ago)

mine is all thickety and nightmarish

my n looks like a u

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 08:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I fell asleep on the couch and forgot to get to the scanner! Maybe tonight. My mom has teacher's handwriting (perfect) and my dad has draftsman's handwriting (exciting small caps) and mine is somewhere in between but pretty messy. My actual script is overly dramatic.

Dee, not saying you don't have carpal tunnel, but I thought I did for months, and my chiro fixed it in a moment! It was apparently just a bit of bone misalignment in my wrist and elbow putting a bit of pressure on the nerves.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

does being able to draw help you be able to write?

When I draw my comics, they don't usually become progressively messier as I go.

My handwriting, on the other hand, rapidly devolves as a) my hand gets tired and b) my thoughts start to get faster than my hand can get them neatly onto paper.

Drawing is a slower exercise for me usually, unless I'm sketching something quickly. In the rare cases where I am writing something intentionally neatly (like lettering comics), writing is more like drawing. I'm thinking of making individual letters rather than putting thoughts onto paper.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha! When I draw comics, they do get messier as I go. For the exact same reasons your handwriting devolves. Comics are a form of writing; I am terrible at drawing.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.angelfire.com/wy/bby2k/handwriting.gif

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

My handwriting pretty much swirls and is disgustingly neat, I think. (Better be, as it took me a few early years to master Cursive!)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

That x would drive me insane!

(But mine looks like a fish when I write quickly.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

That writing is so jel.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

That writing is so high school.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

People can send me something in the mail and I will send them something back with a sample of my handwriting.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Even if it's an anal bat?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I grew up in New York; a bat isn't the worst thing I could imagine up there.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

What things got up there in NY??

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Do a google on "Abner Louima".

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

'Ew' comes to mind.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

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