I perfer typing over writing anyday , but when I do have to put pen to paper I print during wirting and use cursive when I sign my name.

That's why I'm not really trying to learn how to write in cursive, it looks so confusing to me. I wish I'd learnt cursive at the university, as I feel very awkward writing with printed letters. I only know how to write some of the capital letters in cursive :/

I can use either or, but in the modern era I find myself with very little opportunities to use cursive. The last time I remember really using it frequently was notes for college.

I learned in... first or second grade how to do cursive writing.

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Both of my styles of writing look poor (and always have) as they are very loopy but hastily written. Sloppy is a good word.

Back in high school we had to commit a Tutorial lesson to handwriting every week. (There were three a week of an hour a lesson, so essentially you could do up to three hours a week if you wanted to.) I started to enjoy it, already pretty art-oriented, I could knock up an admirable sketch back then, better now - I started to see handwriting as art.

Cursive, always, for me. If I'm taking rapid notes I tend to turn cursive into lines that pretty much nobody can read without some effort. If I'm taking notes for somebody else I take it easier and its easy to read. But yeah, cursive just flows easier and faster for me. When it comes to print my fingers start to ache after a while, my print resembles the stuff in the psycho's journals in the opening credits of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEZK7mJoPLY. :confused:

edit: added seven link. lol

I can't even read my signature. i sign my name everywhere: Credit card applications, the bank, paying bills etc, yet one day a few years ago my boss demanded that I change my signature so that he could read it. I told him to stuff it, and if the banks not complaining about it, then I'm sure as hell not going to change it for him. Never heard no more about it after that.

I don't even know why cursive was taught in the first place. It's hard to write in and even harder to read. School was hard enough without having to deal with writing in a totally pointless manner.

Always cursive. Well, unless it's something other people need to be able to read. Even I can barely read my usual handwriting. :laugh:

Print - all caps. I switched to using all caps because otherwise my handwriting is awful. If I'm taking notes, I might switch to non-all caps to go faster and that method is almost like cursive in that it's all connected and I seem to be the only one who can read it.

Pain in the ass to write, pain in the ass to read.

On the rare occasion that I actually write something, it's generally in cursive. It's much quicker than writing in print.

Even when I tried cursive it was horribly sloppy. Granted my printing is too unless I go rather slowly, so eh.

My handwriting as is now is a hybrid, like 70% printing, 30% cursive, though. It's "flowy", with lots of connected printed letters and the occasional cursive letter tossed in ( J and y are always cursive, s and r are about 50/50 ( these all being the more prominent ones ), just depends on how the flow of the writing is going when I reach the letter. )

Also, my F and f are unique, as I've never seen anyone else who does them as I do. I write my f as one unbroken line, it ends up looking like a tilted 8 with a broken top. Similarly the F is about the same but with a separate line for the top.

My signature has no distinct cursive letters in it, though it inherits the flowiness of my writing.

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u145/lightsaber911/Phone%20photos%20etc/Handwriting.jpg (Also that's not alein, it's akin)

I remember in grade school when the teachers said I'd be using cursive all the time in high school. I never write in cursive, only in print.

I've typed almost everything for so long now that both my cursive and printed handwriting is atrociously inconsistent and unsightly. When I do write, I print almost exclusively, for legibility's sake.

I learned both quite early, and was told I had "very mature [cursive] handwriting" by teachers.

Printing, I'm too much of a perfectionist about the appearance of my handwriting to write in cursive, because my cursive isn't as neat and pretty as my printing.

I was tought to write cursive in elementary school, I never used outside of the class when we had to use it and never used it after that. I've forgotten most of the letters.

For the longest time I hand wrote all my notes because I tended to move a lot faster. Hand writing is usually done with one stroke a word...however the trade off is legibility.

Anyways, in my later schooling years I noticed everyone printed, and when you're working in groups, its so much easier just to print rather than hearing a person ask you "what does this word say?"

It wasn't because my words were illegible, its just that hand writing is touch and such a young age, and a lot of people forget it and go back to printing..they forget how to read it.

I haven't written anything on paper for years though. I always carry my netbook on me, so i'll either type it up or record the audio

I still use cursive, it's too slow to just print it when I have to write pages of exam answers and lecture notes quickly. It has degraded somewhat but it is still legible.

The downside of that is my printing looks like the work of a five year old, because that would have been when I last had to write it. I envy people who write neat, narrow print. But it's just too slow for me to use.


We had to use it in all classes, but most people just stopped after the age of 11, even though we were told we must use it for our exams.

I was never taught cursive beyond signing my name so printing.

this. Cursive will eat your soul.

A cursive-manuscript hybrid scrawl that only I can read.

For handwritten correspondence that people actually read, I actually put forth effort to make my manu-sive legible.
I was taught both palmer perfect cursive and standard manuscript. I also learned calligraphy, thank goodness we don't have to write in that.
When at all possible, I prefer email/facebook/pms/texting as my main form of communication.

I write in gibberish, or so most people tell me. It's my vain attempt at trying to write print.

Haven't done cursive since grade-school.

I write in print, admittedly, however, very very bad print.

I write very quickly in print. I have my own ways of doing the letters so its faster, but that's not by design, it just happens that way. And at least five of my letters look like lowercase 'u's, which is a problem sometimes. I've never really had a reason to use cursive, I can print fast enough that writing in cursive wouldn't make much of a difference. And my friends who use cursive all the time are in denial of how terrible their cursive is.

Chicken scratch.

I print, I never learned to write in cursive (I can read it, though).