Fess Up. Do You Write With Cursive Or Printing?

[Witsius]

I've been working on improving my cursive for at least a year now. It's not much better than it was back then. There are just a few humps I can't see to get over with my cursive. It was like that back when I was a kid in school, and it's still like that as adult. My biggest cursive hurdles are lower case r and double r and double s. My printing, although I don't really practice it at all, is much clearer and more legible. I'm contemplating on relying more on printing than on cursive. I'm not sure yet, but it's an idea that I'm toying with.

 

What's your preferred method of writing? Cursive or printing, and why?

[linearM]

I use cursive. My printing is horrible, don't have the patience. Cursive just flows one letter into the next.

 

Hmmmm....r, double r, and double s. How about a sample?

[Chrissy]

I don't ever use printing. Even for a shopping list.

[estie1948]

I always write in cursive. I get chewed out every time I fill out a form that says Please Print. I even write out in cursive what I am later going to type with the one exception of the Fountain Pen Network. Ironic isn't it?

 

-David (Estie).

[Rednaxela]

Cursive for me.

 

I have been working on it too lately. My biggest change occurred after switching to the methods taught in the ancient instruction books. Still a long way to go, but with hindsight my cursive has always been limited by mediocre technique.

[Andreas Weber]

Mongrel italic, joining letters if I feel like it: www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/295371-handwritten-your-favourite-quotes/page-4#entry3479396. It's legible, fast and get's me compliments for my handwriting - what more could I want?

Edited August 6, 2016 by Andreas Weber

[Ileach]

It turned out as a mix of both for me.

[Tas]

Sadly only my printing in CAPITALS is legible, even to me. My cursive is a scrawl and disappears from my recollection 1/2 hour after I've written it.

Edited August 6, 2016 by Tas

[PaganArcher]

Cursive all the way. Had to go back and teach myself printing for government forms.

[Witsius]

I use cursive. My printing is horrible, don't have the patience. Cursive just flows one letter into the next.

 

Hmmmm....r, double r, and double s. How about a sample?

 

 

 

Here's you go. This is sample is actually a little better than it often comes out. Sometimes the double r or the double s is really bad.

Edited August 6, 2016 by Witsius

[Chrissy]

I prefer your cursive.

[Ejc13]

It's a mix for me, I wrote in print forever but decided to train my messy scrawls with cursive once I started university. Partly out of necessity to read my lecture notes to be honest. So my personal notes and writings are in cursive, while my correspondence and writing for others is in print. Both are still messy but practice makes perfect and they're a lot better than they were months ago.

[MKeith]

Since 2011, I write in cursive with the exception of some doctor/hospital/government forms etc. I stopped writing in cursive when I went to college in 1971 and continued to print for the next 40 years, and my career spanning 36 years required printing. I had to re-learn how to write cursive all over again and enjoy it immensely.

[drv1913]

I use cursive for just about everything because I associate it with being an adult. I use print occasionally for things like addressing envelopes or when filling out certain forms. Even with envelopes, however, I am more likely to use a calligraphic hand. I associate plain manuscript with childhood, perhaps because my own manuscript hand consists of rounded letters and requires more effort for me to write. Cursive, on the other hand, flows easily and looks more sophisticated to my eye.

[TSherbs]

a blend of both that I immediately naturally fell into after 6th grade when I was allowed to drop the full-and-always-cursive requirement

[dk76]

I was all printing in block capital letters. It took a dry fountain pen that would hard start to get me back into cursive.

 

Nowadays, almost all my writing is in cursive.

[eliweisz]

I use cursive for just about everything because I associate it with being an adult. I use print occasionally for things like addressing envelopes or when filling out certain forms.

 

Same here

[cleosmama]

I hardly ever print; I use cursive. Sometimes I modify my cursive so that it stands more "uprightly" (my letter-writing hand is more slanted).

[Barkingpig]

All cursive, all the time, for me. I don't remember when we learned cursive writing in school but I enjoyed it & felt I suppose it was a "grown up" way of writing; I wanted to be a part of the adult world because it seemed special to a child.

 

I envy "mehandiratta's" crisp, artful printing which reminds me of an architect friend who also only prints when addressing any post card or letter to me. But I never felt mine was as nice as my cursive so I wrote notes during four years @ University in cursive when it appears many other people preferred to print. My pens & inks are all perfect instruments for cursive so I suspect I will probably continue writing as I have for the last 50+ years. Any habit or practice maintained for this long just seems a "part of you" & I am comfortable with it. I have never practiced nor thought of improving it because it is "just the way I write" & often elicits a comment when making a bank deposit, "you have such nice handwriting;" I just reply, "I have a nice pen & enjoy using good ink."

[akustyk]

Whenever I write for others to read, which is most of the time, I print. But I don't mean all caps, I mean print in the sense used in US schools (at least the schools my son went to), i.e., without joining letters.