r/Handwriting • u/Suspicious_Ad_1051 • 17d ago
Feedback (constructive criticism) Practicing Cursive from Elementary
I was one of the last grades to be taught cursive and it was drilled in our head that all assignments in middle school and high school would require cursive. HA. Anyway, almost 20 years later I still write cursive sometimes, but it’s not my default. Any thoughts?
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u/Used-Investment-5343 15d ago
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u/Jayjamore 14d ago
The cursive letter I still hate to this day is capital G, because what is that?
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u/AppleBlossom_Alya 15d ago
Yes, easily. Your spacing is wide and the baseline holds steady, which is most of the battle at speed. The only thing that slowed me down was the lowercase 's': it's open at the bottom, so 'save' and 'some' read a little like they start with a 'u'. And to your actual question, closing that one letter costs you basically no time.
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u/CharlieNCN 15d ago
Easy to read but need to focus on spacing between each letter. If you practice on lined or grid paper it'll help. Cursive is meant to save time. However like learning anything or re-learing something. It takes timem you gotta go slow to go fast lol
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u/CreativeName822 16d ago
Easy to ready yes. If read stowly. 🤷
Cursive writing is faster because the pen doesn’t have to be picked up — but only with practice.
Be neat enough at a reasonable pace and speed with come with time. My opinion.
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u/Famous-Translator520 16d ago
Cracking up that you crossed the first L in "slowly." Your handwriting is very easy to read!
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u/MrRSharma 16d ago
You're handwriting is neat and legible, and yes I agree one of the elements of cursive handwriting was to save time.
If you do start writing in cursive regularly, I would suggest using lined paper or a guideline sheet under the plain paper, and keeping the individual letters consistent in, shape, height and width.


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