A few days ago
Anonymous

How can I improve my handwriting without spending an hour a day on it?

I’m 15 and really, really hate my handwriting.

In school, they stuck all of us in front of a handwriting book and told us to work on it. No tips, no instructions, just the book. My printing is terrible.

I taught myself cursive so that’s a bit better, but I still can’t write quickly. I’ve taught myself to angle my handwriting more to the right because then I can write faster, but my normal tendency is to go slowly with no slant.

My handwriting is very small and angular.

I don’t have the time or attention span to sit around for an hour every day working on my lower-case ‘d’, but I’m a little worried because I’m taking the AP US history exam in May and my handwriting has some quirks that could be a problem.

My ‘e’s often look like ‘i’s, if I have an ‘l’ after an ‘o’ it looks like a ‘d’, and I have a tendency to omit the stem of an ‘i’ and just have the dot somewhat ambiguously placed.

How can I improve my handwriting enough to be basically legible?

Top 5 Answers
A few days ago
cyn99di

Favorite Answer

The only way to improve is to practice. Now shortcuts with this as you are training your mind and body to perform something that is not natural.
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A few days ago
Nate F
I cannot confirm this, but I recently heard that from an early age, we have a defined way of writing each letter. As if “muscle memory” was developed.

With the assumption that that is true, I would say that your best bet is to not improve your handwriting, but instead to start from scratch. It would be analogous to trying to cut a hard piece of plastic with scissors. If you try cutting close to the edge, then your scissors will probably slip, but if start cutting a fresh surface, the chances of fault are far less.

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A few days ago
*smile*
Practice writing the letters like you were in kindergarten. It helps you realize what mistakes you made in can improve the writing a lot.
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4 years ago
Anonymous
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A few days ago
XT rider
don’t use a ballpoint

try a few different fountain pens to see which is best for you. eg you may find that a medium-to-broad nib at a slight angle gives you more control.

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