Print vs Cursive

I haven't seen handwritten cursive for years! I forgot it even existed :P

I was forced to write in cursive for 9 years in the elementary school. It was utter hell and suffering. They often forced me to re-write stuff because it was illegible. Haven't written a single word in cursive since then, switching to print I was writing faster and other people actually could read it. Fuck you, elementary school teachers.

I got dysgraphia and while that might make some teachers care now, in the 90s nobody gave a damn.

uppercase print, all the time 👌

I'm finding your print a bit hard to read, while I had no issues with your cursive. Take this with a grain of salt since my handwriting is atrocious...

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Thank you all for comments and honesty. I'm well aware my handwriting is atrocious. Now, to answer your questions.
Why all caps-lock in print version? That's the only one I know, I really don't know how to write lower case letters in print.
The letter I'm about to write is for someone very dear to me and it would be nice if the person could actually be able to read it.
It is hard to judge your own handwriting. I can read both, print is a bit easier.

I moved from cursive to print at some point during my early teen years and never regreted it. My cursive was barely understandable even for me, my print isn't great but at least people can read it without issue most of the time.

you forgot to cross your ts

i always write in print, so the print is easier to read for me.

The bottom one looks better, just fix your p, t, r, l letters to make them more distinct. You have good handwriting/don't be discouraged. I used to write cursive until highschool and a teacher made a big fuss because my letters were stylish but she was too retarded to read it (had no problems with other teachers) so now my letters are more distinct yet boring and less stylish :( Also you should avoid writing most of the time in italics/slanted or just in caps.

Cursive - looks nicer & it's much easier to read even without crossed Ts ^^

used to write in cursive all the way to my early time in college, but college lectures changed that, aint nobody got time for cursive.

It's been years since I could write in cursive.
The only thing I use it for is signing checks.
Everything else gets printed, and really, that's more widely accepted these days, it seems.

Your story sounds kind of like mine.

I've never been able to have legible handwriting in print, with most of my letters malformed and looking like smudged chicken scratch (mainly because the unfortunate effect of being left-handed is that you drag your hand over everything you write, smudging it all over the place - and writing in a spiral notebook is absolute hell, which is why I turn everything upside down and use binders/notebooks right-to-left, holes on the right; you should too). The black marks on the karate-chop side of your hand are a pain only we know.

So I write almost entirely in cursive and use a pen for everything. It's far more legible, although because I only started re-using cursive in high-school after too many teachers gave me zeroes for illegible work, plenty of my letters are "wrong" and not standard cursive, like my f's and b's and nearly all my uppercase letters. I also keep writing o like a.

So keep at it, cursive is far easier to write than print for me (and might be for you - besides yours is already looking pretty good), letter spacing is typically more consistent, and you don't have to connect every single letter - it's okay to make breaks here and there, makes writing long words easier if you let the cursive be freeform rather than strict.

This post is getting way too long, I'll just leave you with a writing sample.

http://i.imgur.com/aEC7Mqp.jpg

I would go with cursive. I tried reading your print and could not make out words that I could read just fine in cursive.
Some letters you seem t have problems writing in cursive though which makes the handwriting look, I dunno, a bit childish maybe.
Other than that I think it looks better than the print which is a goto for me too to be honest. Because I think it's easier to read in general and probably faster to write.
But as mentioned, I had trouble with some words there while I had no problem reading your cursive.

You're a lefty? but but, your writing slants to the right... Do you do that turning the paper at an angle thing as you write it that they taught in school? I'm left handed and everything of mine slants leftward, or is without any slant. Weird, I have nothing against it slanting to the right, but knowing that it's from a lefty is making my brain hurt for some weird reason because I can't imagine being able to write like that.

You have very nice cursive, and with just a little bit of training it could look superb. Have a look online for some Spencerian penmanship, there's plenty of free material available and it'll make a big difference. I remember having some public domain pdf books back in the day that helped a lot.

In your exceptional case, I find your cursive easier to read. For some reason when you write in print you leave pretty big spaces inside the letters.
Although your "t"s are missing the horizontal line.

i find your cursive easier to read as well,but i feel your pain every time i have to fill out an auto loan or something i almost forget how to write,last time i wrote a letter i just typed and printed it and signed the bottom lol.

it always depends on the person. i'd say in general print is safe to say but in your case i like the cursive better :)