How neat is your handwriting?
 

Adept at cursive or are you barely legible on paper?

Shockingly and disgracefully, but that's mostly because anything I write is only for me to read.

I write a dairy daliy and over the years my handwriting has severely deteriorated
It's now barely legible

I’m quite artistic...so it comes naturally. It certainly doesn’t run in my family though :laugh:

It's hard to keep in practice when the keyboard is so dominant. My writing is average.

My writing has always fallen into the "not pretty, but legible" category. I agree about the dominance of keyboards but for me that's not lead to a deterioration in writing, so much as s simple inability to do much of it? Like I can scribble a note down or sign my name no problem, but if I try to write out more than a couple of hundred words I start to get cramps in my hands :umm2:. The muscles just aren't used to being used for handwriting... they're finely-tuned machines designed for a keyboard, mouse or Playstation controller.

my handwriting these days is bloody awful. It was never hyper neat, but i can't think of the last time i wrote a proper letter to anyone

id wager half the forum have never actually written a letter to another person

I have always had good handwriting I think ,I won a handwriting competition at school ,I get complimented on it a lot , I do dabble in a lot of arts and crafts, and like to create.

Shove some paint on a spiders legs and then give it some acid..

The mess is me.

similar to times new roman

Badly, but j csnt vote cnose my ey****e ain't good for conptutnors, sw i cant win either weigh.

I've voted reasonably.
Because I start really good and taking time to write as near perfectly as possible.
However after a while it starts to gradually get worse.
Never too bad thankfully however.

Teachers always told me I wrote very well for a lenf-handed person and I think it's fine because I put a lot of effort into it, especially when keyboards are predominant.
So when I sign a check or write a letter I make sure it is very neat. I also force myself at work to take notes on paper and not on the computer so I can still practice.

I used to have lovely handwriting.

We were all taught in primary school to write with that Berol handwriting scheme with those specific pens (late 90s - might be before some of you lot's times) and I got it really quickly. We HAD to write like that though there so it wasn't an option to be untidy.

Then high school came and you could write how you wanted to I started changing the way I wrote by printing to be "cool" and stuff.

Then art school happened and lectures and what not, you have to write quickly/note-take/short hand etc, just "getting it down" in scribbles enough to read and maybe type up later on. Plus art school really drills it into you to "loosen up your hands" and you sort of get rid of any sort of tension or precision or "skill" using your hands to draw/paint and it really also affects writing too.

That's kind of where I'm still at - just scribbles. I blame art. :joker:

I can easily switch back into the old Berol handwriting stuff though weirdly, just never chose to do so.