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bestcee

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Do you love it or hate it? Or somewhere in between? (but I usually find handwriting is a love/hate thing!)

Do you print or cursive? Or hybrid?

I wish my handwriting was cuter, but I've moved beyond hating it. I remember having to work on it an entire summer between third and fourth grade because my handwriting was atrocious! My dad made me write out a page or two a day.

Mine is definitely a hybrid! Some cursive connections, but quite a few printed letters. And if I'm in a hurry? More cursive than not!

How about you?
 
Hybrid here. And when I am not rushed I like it, but if I'm in a hurry or writing in a book or uncomfortable notebook then there are times I can hardly read it.
 
I have to say I love my handwriting! But I want to develop it and gonna start doing some letter practice. I bought a couple of books about it too!
 
I write in cursive naturally, but dislike my handwriting and so will use a cute handwriting font for my journaling often.
 
I don't mind mine. It is totally hybrid, lol. Part cursive, part printed.
My mum says she can't stand watching me write. She says it looks like I should just be scribbling with how loose and flowy my hand is moving, but it turns out nice!

Fun fact, I'm a lefty! BUT I can write fairly neatly with my right hand and, with my left, I can write upside down and back to front - as in paper facing child instead of myself.
How about you? Left or right or both?
 
Righty...Love it but dont write as often as I should.. computer took over!
 
Mine's ok. It's messy because I'm always in a hurry. Now, my sister, the schoolteacher, had impeccable writing! It looks like the handwriting samples they used to put around our classrooms.

I can't tell you how many times as a kid I worked at changing my handwriting! I'd spend weeks getting it just "right", only to change it a few months later.

Now I look at my handwriting (cursive) and I see the way my dad and grandma used to write, like how they make a T at the end of a word, and I never, ever copied them. Pretty funny.
 
My handwriting is just plain atrocious. Like I work with mostly men and when I leave my notebook laying around and they try to figure out who's it is, they check with every guy in the building before me because they assume women always have nice handwriting, but I don't. I could totally be a doctor. :giggle Now, having said that even though my handwriting is awful, it's mine, so I've made peace with it. :)
 
I have a love/hate relationship with mine. It actually isn't too bad when I try... problem is, I rarely try :-) Mine is hybrid... a random mix of cursive and print.
 
I used to love my handwriting, until some arthritis got in the way. I remember winning penmanship awards when I was in 4th grade. I still like my handwriting, but nowadays it's mainly hybrid, and I don't use it much because so much is done on the computer.
 
I'm content with my handwriting but most of my writing is typing nowadays. The worst thing about this change is that I can't write for long periods of time like I used to. I used to handwrite pages of journaling in a diary, but when I try to write a page of something now, my hand gets tired and my writing grows sloppier.

My handwriting, as it became established in my teens, is a hybrid of cursive and print, especially the capital letters. Most of my capital letters are at most frilly print letters. I didn't consciously intend to do that; it's something I noticed later. Looking at my desk calendar in front of me right now, I see a mixture of print and cursive. I think when I'm trying to be neater, at least in my desk calendar, I print; when I'm just jotting down a note quickly, it's cursive. The rare times I write in my paper journal (that has lasted for many years now!) it's in cursive.

Funny thing about cursive and my kids. They don't read it very easily (none were interested in learning it and I don't think it important) so I joke that I can write secrets in cursive. I think I've seen a meme about this. Some people bemoan that kids nowadays aren't learning cursive but I think it has always gotten harder to read handwriting over the centuries. My parents' handwriting is harder to read than mine, my grandparents' even more confusing, anything written 100 years ago is really hard to read, and so on.
 
Southpaw here!!!!!

I love my handwriting when I'm not in a hurry. I also do a mix of both cursive and print. And I also found that some of my letters looks exactly like my some of my parents lettering too. Genes?
 
Chippi said:
Fun fact, I'm a lefty! BUT I can write fairly neatly with my right hand and, with my left, I can write upside down and back to front - as in paper facing child instead of myself.
How about you? Left or right or both?
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Righty. Both my son and husband are lefties though. I can also write upside down, and backwards! We went to a restaurant where they did that as a kid and I thought it was the coolest trick ever.
 
I can sign my Beverly name upside down, backwards, and upside down/backwards in cursive. Yeah, it was a boring afternoon back in Jr High (cause we didn't call it Middle School back then). I use a mix of cursive and print. My handwriting has always been hard to read, but I will tell you my secret. I am bad speller, so if your handwriting is bad, they can't tell if it is the handwriting or the spelling that is wrong. And small, yes, writing small helps with spelling errors too. And yes, sometimes I can't read my own handwriting.
 
My handwriting is so bad, I can't even decipher it. I will make a grocery list, my husband will ask questions about items before he goes to the store, and I will have to guess what it says.:banned
 
I am in the category of "I hate my handwriting". I have recently gotten into Bible journaling and see all of these adorable pages with beautiful script and lettering hand writing and I am a tinge jealous (in a good way, not an envy way)! I have been working on it and I wish I could just embrace it, but I would really LOVE to be able to write beautifully!
 
I was always picked as secretary when we had to do groupwork in middle school & high school so you can guess what my handwriting is like. :giggle

My handwriting is nice & I don't mind it but my sister's, a kindergarten teacher, and my mom's, a retired kindergarten teacher, handwriting is spectacular.

The only things I really write nowadays are grocery lists, board meeting notes, & thank you cards. I enjoy writing cursive more than print but I usually write in print.
 
I've never really liked my handwriting. But it is what it is. I tried writing different ways but always come back to the way it is. In reading what you have all written, I think my writing at times must be hybrid...if that means part cursive and part printing. I had never heard of hybrid handwriting. :) I do know that now that I'm older it is harder to write. It's like my hands and fingers are a little shaky and jerky, a breakdown in the muscle control, and I get results that I don't like. My grandmother used to say she didn't write letters anymore because it was too hard to write. I didn't understand that at the time. But I sure do now. My computer is my best friend when it comes to writing. I'll sign my name to something, but the rest is typed in whatever fun font I choose. :) It's much neater. :) I have one sister who has always printed everything. She has a really nice printing hand, too. I have also done a lot of typing for other people over the years and I got to where I could read just about any kind of handwriting that came my way. That was interesting to me that I could decipher it as easy as I did sometimes.
 
Mine's pretty nice. I've actually been doing a little more handwriting these days (a Bible Verse challenge), and it's improved over the last couple of months. Practice really does help.
 
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