Deteriorating Handwriting

[evilagent]

With keyboards, and phone texting, etc, do you find your handwriting is rapidly going downhill?

I used to enjoy writing, but I have noticed, of late, how appalling my handwriting has become.

[NotAllThere]

I thought it might be the case, but I started doing a degree - involving exams requiring 4x1000 word essays in 3 hours. It seems my handwriting is still sufficiently legible.

[scooterscot]

With keyboards, and phone texting, etc, do you find your handwriting is rapidly going downhill?
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Actually no. If anything I now just take my time when writing by hand.

[BrilloPad]

You are probably pot noodling too much. Give your wrist a break.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Mine was wrecked by A level and University note taking and exams - was getting back to acceptable but is now going again due to never writing (as OP observed) and age. On the upside maybe I can a job writing prescriptions.....oh no, they're all printed now...

[MPwannadecentincome]

Mine was wrecked by A level and University note taking and exams - was getting back to acceptable but is now going again due to never writing (as OP observed) and age. On the upside maybe I can a job writing prescriptions.....oh no, they're all printed now...

WHS!

[mudskipper]

I thought it might be the case, but I started doing a degree - involving exams requiring 4x1000 word essays in 3 hours. It seems my handwriting is still sufficiently legible.

My exams nearly crippled my hand - had no idea how out of practice I was for writing solidly for 3 hours.

[suityou01]

I thought it might be the case, but I started doing a degree - involving exams requiring 4x1000 word essays in 3 hours. It seems my handwriting is still sufficiently legible.

A man's degree requires no essay writing.

HTH

[NotAllThere]

A man's degree requires no essay writing.

HTH

I've already got a man's degree (Maths and Computing). Just fancied doing a girly one. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I'm quite capable of writing essays, since when I was at school I hated doing it.

[VectraMan]

I did a French evening class about 5 years ago, and apart from it being really strange being in a class room again for the first time in 15 years, I quickly discovered that I couldn't write. I was just so out of practice it really was painful just taking out notes and doing exercises or whatever. My handwriting has always been illegible, but that was more about making my hand physically move in that way.

I've never been one for writing notes at work, so I have very little reason to ever pick up a pen in this day and age.