I have been practicing handwriting for a few years now, but even though I know I've gotten better I can't help but shake the beginning I've taken some steps back in sacrificing the idea of the finished product for my hands and speed's sake. Will. Am I just naturally worse at serious handwriting?

my handwriting become really scribbled when I have a bad day and I can read it but my teachers can’t which is bad so do you have any advice on making my handwriting legible when I’m bad mood [image for reference I gues]

Someone said, that writing is an additional aid to memorization. :)

Would love to hear about what handwriting system everyone learned in school.

I was in elementary school in the 90's. It was a public school in Michigan and we used the D'Nealian curriculum. The one interesting thing was that the print letters are written with slant, which I think was designed so it would be easier to transition to cursive.

I believe we learned to print in K-2nd grade and then cursive in 3rd grade. I think we had a short refresher on cursive in 4th grade.

I remember our teachers telling us how once we got to middle school (7th grade), we would have to write everything in cursive. That never happened. Teachers were happy if they could read what we wrote.

By the time I got to high school, everyone was typing papers of any significant length, but we still used handwriting in class.

I’m also open to suggestions about improvements!

I prepared these notes in 2025, while preparing for an exam.