How is your handwriting?

With the increase of tablets phones and what not people don't seem to be writing stuff down as much as they did. I'm sure the next generation of people will have worse handwriting because of this, but enough about them how is your handwriting?

Mine is bad, it has and always will be. I hardly write that much but when I do it's not great. Long live the keyboard!

Pretty bad. I'm certain nobody here could read it.

Mine's bad but it is readable. Some people have beautiful looking handwriting but it's impossible to fucking read. I hate that.

Case in point VVV

My hand writing looks fancy and nice. It is, however, virtually illegible to anyone else. I am the only person of my age that I know who writes like this:

This handwriting is the result of 15 years of being forced to write with a fountain pen. On one hand, it looks fancy and impresses people. On the other hand, virtually no one can bloody read it, which makes it useless and potentially dangerous if anyone needs to read something I've written.

Put a crayon in between your but cheek and try writing with it… It would look like my handwriting.

Legible, except for my signature...I'm one of the few I know who actually prefer writing in cursive though.

My handwriting looks childish as fuck but it's quite legible.

Mine's pretty bad. Used to be way worse when I still joined everything up though (primary school teachers got really mad if you didn't for some reason). Teaching yourself new handwriting is fun. It doesn't matter though, most stuff I write is only for me to read anyway.

@Korolev: Christ! Are you from the 19th century or something? You're right though, all I could make out was the stuff in capitals.

Can we start a new rule that people have to post a sample of their handwriting so others can judge it?

It's pretty good, but turns to shit as soon as I need to rush to take something down.

If I take my time and write neatly in cursive it's OK... but I haven't done that in like 10 years so really, my handwriting is TERRIBLE. I can write pretty quick though. I'm also the only one who can read it.

My Japanese handwriting is better than my English, that's for sure. With English I have trouble keeping my letters on the line so it just looks like gosh darned mess. Japanese don't give a eff about no lines.

Even my print is crap.

@Korolev said:

My hand writing looks fancy and nice. It is, however, virtually illegible to anyone else. I am the only person of my age that I know who writes like this:

This handwriting is the result of 15 years of being forced to write with a fountain pen. On one hand, it looks fancy and impresses people. On the other hand, virtually no one can bloody read it, which makes it useless and potentially dangerous if anyone needs to read something I've written.

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Von willebrand Factor in red. You study medicine I assume?

It's not bad writing, just really really cursive.

If your handwriting is as bad as mine, well...you can read pretty much anything. :D

@Korolev: turn your italics off :P

My 9 year old niece told me my handwriting was shit.

Hey man thread has been done http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/off-topic/31/hows-your-handwriting/422348/

@CaLe:

Rotate the paper 90 degrees.

A 5 year old who is still learning the alphabet has a better handwriting than me.

@Video_Game_King said:

@CaLe:

Rotate the paper 90 degrees.

I do find it easier to write vertically in a straight line for some reason. I guess I'm just a fan of the Y axis.

@CaLe:

Japanese is designed like that.

Mine looks like a child's handwriting, lots of people have massive difficulty reading it. Some people on here have said they're handwriting is bad, mine is actually bad, one of my teachers told me I should have requested to do some of my exams on computer it was so bad, and another one suggested to my mother to have me tested for some kind of mental issue which can affect writing. The main problem, I've identified, is actually surprisingly simple, my handwriting looks like a child's, which is bad enough, however, it's also slanted wrong. I write like a left handed person, but with a right hand, which throws people off, making it very difficult to read.

People also keep saying my signature is tiny (it really is).

My handwriting depends on if I'm taking my time or not. 3 stars (legible, sometimes pretty, but mostly just legible), to 2 stars (how old are you again?).

Abysmal. My hand-writing hasn't changed since I was in 5th grade, no matter how hard I've tried to improve it. I guess if I go real slow and focus I can make it look somewhat decent. I was required to learn cursive in elementary school, and back then it actually looked alright, but I've all but forgotten how to write everything but my name in cursive, and even that looks like dogshit.

@Video_Game_King said:

@CaLe:

Japanese is designed like that.

Yes but English is my first language so you'd think I'd find it easier to write horizontally!

It's all right. If I'm in a rush it's horrible, but if I can take my time then it usually turns out all right.

Well, at least it would if I weren't left handed. As it stands, when I get to the bottom of a page, the rest of it is gray and my hand is covered in graphite where everything has been smeared. It's still readable, but it looks fucking horrible. And there's not a goddamn thing I can do about it either.

"Lift your hand up, Believer!" You try writing a four page final exam essay on college ruled notebook paper without resting your hand on anything, or spend an hour and fifteen minutes hastily jotting down notes without letting anything but the pencil lightly scrape the paper you're writing on.

My hand writing was once described as being like someone dipped spider in whiskey to get it drunk, then in ink and finally let it run across a page.

@believer258:

Learn Chinese or Japanese or Korean or Arabic. I imagine those would favor lefty-writing more.

@Video_Game_King said:

Can we start a new rule that people have to post a sample of their handwriting so others can judge it?

Depends on how tired I am. If I'm feeling motivated and put the effort in, I think sometimes it could even be 5 stars...but when I'm feeling really sleepy or rushed, it is less than 1 star.
 
@Korolev: That is some awesome-looking handwriting, even if you can't read it.

@Korolev: Im in the same boat, glad Im not the only one

Awful. I write too fast for my own good. Sometimes I can't even read it.

Edit: here are some samples

I win the worst handwriting award.

@Korolev: I don't slant as hard as you do, but I've been writing like that (cursive/print mix with lots of flourishing curls) since maybe 6th grade. Not nearly as neat, though - my handwriting strays wildly because I write with a closed fist and sometimes don't notice that my writing lifts up off the lined paper. Oh and I write with my paper at a 45 degree angle, so there's that too.

I give it 3 stars: looks all right, but it's hard to read for the most part. Makes math look pretty, but long form a nightmare.

like looks like crap. and if i need to jog something down in a hurry i can barely read it myself.

every time i have to write something to one of the higher people at my work i can luckily give it to my boss she is pretty much the only one who can read it.

Judging by the old thread:

@Pie said:

Hey man thread has been done http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/off-topic/31/hows-your-handwriting/422348/

and what I've seen so far in this thread, most of ya'll don't know shit about no bad handwriting. Ya'll just a bunch of insecure motherfuckers with decent penmanship.

Utter trash, typing has ruined my penmanship, what little of it I had.

@Video_Game_King said:

@believer258:

Learn Chinese or Japanese or Korean or Arabic. I imagine those would favor lefty-writing more.

Yes, but my professors, as far as I know, neither speak nor read any of those languages.

Admittedly, knowing one or more of those languages, Japanese in particular, would be pretty cool.

Bad, always been. I think it may be because my fingers are double-jointed, but no real evidence to that theory.

Mine is very inconsistent. Most letters will look fine, then suddenly there's a huge O or squished t out of nowhere which makes a whole word look awful. Very legible but not pretty. No scanner available sowwie

@Korolev: That's crazy cursive.

@pyromagnestir said:

My 9 year old niece told me my handwriting was shit.

You should have challenged her to a throwing contest. See how smart she thinks she is then.

Oh man mine is fucking garbage. My cursive writing is good at least but nobody ever uses that anymore.

My handwriting looks pretty awful, but I gave myself three stars because it's legible by just about anyone.

My example:

I wouldn't say mine is terrible. It's legible enough to make a note on the fridge, but it's certainly not going to win any calligraphy awards.

Having said that, it gets pretty atrocious at times. I've signed the odd Visitors Book with an indecipherable scrawl.

It also depends on what angle I'm writing at and also how hard the surface is behind the piece of paper. I prefer writing on a surface with a bit of "give" in it, so like to write on a small stack of a few sheets of paper rather than a single sheet on a hard table .

@ThePickle said:

I win the worst handwriting award.

check again.

I think it's legible, but not that great.