How is your handwriting?

My handwriting is incredibly bad. To the point where I can't even read it myself. I'm also left handed and love to write in ink pens. 1 star for meee!

It's probably pretty easy to read, but it's very plain and ugly.

My handwriting can be horrible, so bad that I nobody can really read it, on the other hand, my handwriting can also be very neat if I actually put the effort in.

Not my best, but this is how I usually write.

I put 1, however after seeing the examples here, I would give myself a 3.

@Hizang: Alright, mine is ass but I can beat that. I think. I hope.

@believer258 said:

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

It just occurred to me that Arabic would probably be your best bet, and here's why.

My signature is usually just the first letter of my name and bunch of scribbled lines.

Atrocious. 1/5.

I can write in cursive, but I almost never do and it looks like crap, printing has always been faster for me and extremely legible.

I almost never do either though, it's all typing now.

@Video_Game_King said:

@believer258 said:

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

It just occurred to me that Arabic would probably be your best bet, and here's why.

I'm sure there are plenty of left-handers in Japan who have gotten used to writing kanji. Besides, knowing me, I'd probably work my way around it in such a manner that no one would notice, i.e. I'd learn to write a stroke from right to left correctly. As a left hander, I'm already used to adapting to the ass-backwards right-handed world anyway, what's one more thing going to make a difference?

Depends on how tired I am. If I feel like it my cursive is really neat. It's always legible.

@believer258 said:

Besides, knowing me, I'd probably work my way around it in such a manner that no one would notice, i.e. I'd learn to write a stroke from right to left correctly.

I don't think you could do that, since it's designed that doing it righty-style is actually easier. I mean, how are you going to do the bottom ones like 返 or 建?

Terrible. Might be legible to some people but it is terrible.

However, I do tend to write quickly and usually don't bother trying to make it neat. If I gave effort to it... well, it would probably still look pretty bad.

@Video_Game_King said:

@believer258 said:

Besides, knowing me, I'd probably work my way around it in such a manner that no one would notice, i.e. I'd learn to write a stroke from right to left correctly.

I don't think you could do that, since it's designed that doing it righty-style is actually easier. I mean, how are you going to do the bottom ones like 返 or 建?

A lot of people just squiggle a line for them. It's not a big deal really. In fact, a lot of people even just turn氵into a squiggly line. Anyway, I'd never advise learning the stroke order backwards^^ I doubt it would solve any problems. It's a very logical system as it is.

At first glance this looks difficult, but it's surprisingly easy to read.

Just tilt your head, don't know how to rotate pics, but GODDAMN I HAVE UGLY HANDWRITING.

@CaLe said:

At first glance this looks difficult, but it's surprisingly easy to read.

Provided you can understand the language it's written in. ಥ_ಥ

I'll say 2 stars because it looks like a second graders handwriting but it's legible.

Got some schoolwork scanned so I'll post that. Atom physics suck... and so does my handwriting.

Well, I took a picture but I don't have any idea where the cable is for my camera. Great.

@CaLe said:

@Video_Game_King said:

@believer258 said:

Besides, knowing me, I'd probably work my way around it in such a manner that no one would notice, i.e. I'd learn to write a stroke from right to left correctly.

I don't think you could do that, since it's designed that doing it righty-style is actually easier. I mean, how are you going to do the bottom ones like 返 or 建?

A lot of people just squiggle a line for them. It's not a big deal really. In fact, a lot of people even just turn氵into a squiggly line. Anyway, I'd never advise learning the stroke order backwards^^ I doubt it would solve any problems. It's a very logical system as it is.

At first glance this looks difficult, but it's surprisingly easy to read.

I didn't know you spoke/read/wrote Japanese. EDIT: And I wouldn't necessarily do the stroke order backwards, that was just the immediate solution that I thought of. I'd figure it out./EDIT

@Video_Game_King There are many things in this world that are designed, often unintentionally, to make things easier for right-handed people. If I spoke Japanese, drawing the correct kanji would not be a difficult thing to get used to when compared to, say, spiral fucking notebooks or those tiny desks that are made for a right arm to lay comfortably on.

Actually learning which kanji goes where, the rules, etc., that would be the hard part.

I write notes/instructions for people to read, so I try to be clear in those cases. In addition, I write a lot of thank-you cards, birthday cards, and Christmas cards, etc; because of that, I have developed a legible block letter writing style. The genesis of this writing style was filling out dozens of job applications in high school and college. You tend to think about how you write when you see it on the page repeatedly. I quickly learned that neatness and proper grammar is the difference between getting the job and not; and therefore the difference between getting the job you want and having to settle for a job that will hire any fool.

I’m not a grammar or spelling Nazi, but the one place where I always check spelling is on resumes, applications, and cover letters.

@Video_Game_King said:

@CaLe said:

At first glance this looks difficult, but it's surprisingly easy to read.

Provided you can understand the language it's written in. ಥ_ಥ

I thought you were studying Japanese? If I type it out I'm sure you can easily recognize each character: ジジィになってもあだ名で呼び合える友達を作れ (ジジィ old geezer basically になっても even if/when you become あだ名 nickname で with/in/by 呼び合える can call each other 友達 friend を verb works on this 作れ make!). Make friends you can call by their nickname, even when you become an old geezer. Something like that.

@CaLe said:

I thought you were studying Japanese?

I am. It's just that I'm not very good at it.

@CaLe said:

@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.

Do you find that you turn you books sideways to read or put your head leaning in your palm to read? I only ask because my nephew does that and he has an eye condition that took forever for someone to figure out.

@Pie said:

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

This is what I was immediately reminded of.

Anyway, my handwriting is still the same as it was 2 or 3 years ago when I posted to the thread above.

@MonkeyKing1969 said:

@CaLe said:

@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.

Do you find that you turn you books sideways to read or put your head leaning in your palm to read? I only ask because my nephew does that and he has an eye condition that took forever for someone to figure out.

No, I don't read like that or anything. But if I'm writing on a page, the paper is usually tilted at a 45 degree angle to the left and I curve my hand to match it, rather than actually straightening the page. I'm sure I'm not the only one who does that though.

@pyromagnestir said:

@ThePickle said:

I win the worst handwriting award.

check again.

...wow. I stand corrected.

I cannot be the judge of that. I think my writing is legible, so 3 stars.

I said 4 stars, but after seeing the other examples in this thread I'd like to change my vote to 5 stars. When I was 11-17 I filled up about twenty composition notebooks cover to cover with stories I wrote, and I think all the practice made my handwriting pretty decent.

@Pie said:

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

How the fuck did you know that?

My handwritten Japanese is pretty shitty

I said 5 stars, but the truth is I don't even remember what a cursive "z" looks like.

My handwriting is pretty bad but I guess not as bad as people who came after me and had no use for penmanship whatsoever. The few occasions I had to write manually during college the professor never had an issue reading it, though I'm not great at reading my own writing.

@Bocam said:

My handwritten Japanese is pretty shitty

Never mind the penmanship, it reads like the ramblings of a mad man! 「それほど損は・・」 ないのかな?

I type much much faster than I can write with a pen and my handwriting is horrific.

@Winternet said:

@Pie said:

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

How the fuck did you know that?

I....err..........

aww

Piss poor. I can read it but no one else can.

Gave myself one whole star. I write in cursive, and generally it's not legible to anyone other than myself. Don't know how many times I had teachers make fun of my writing in both elementary and highschool, but I at least think of three different teachers that did it infront of the entire class. It seems to match up a fair bit with how someone with dysgraphia would write, where it just gets worse and worse as I write; I even struggle to stay inside the lines colouring in the dots on Scantrons. Tests are the worst though, crunched for time so I want to rush my already bad handwriting, but I have to write extremely slowly (generally print instead of write, too) or else I end up losing marks for the professor just not being able to decipher my answers. So yes, one star seems pretty accurate.

Pretty shitty.

My handwritten response:

1. It's a bastard child of print and cursive, and barely legible half of the time.

It's decent, I know it's not super nice and all but I've yet to stumble upon someone who can't read it.

@mandude: Looks like you wrote that in Gaelic

1 star, I have the penmanship of a grade 3'er, its really sad.

@Sumbog said:

@mandude: Looks like you wrote that in Gaelic

1 star, I have the penmanship of a grade 3'er, its really sad.

Aye, Insular Celtic. I learned to write that way in primary school for whatever reason. The language is English though.

Awful. My handwriting is nigh-unreadable. Even signing my name leaves some people confused, and I don't blame them.

Based on the examples of the other people's handwriting here, I think 4 is appropriate for my handwriting.