Cursive Handwriting Decline

i only ever write to think slowly on paper or when i need the 2d aspect to layout or draw. im probably 4x-5x faster typing thoughts that are just text out and its easier to rearrange. cursive is dying because its not a useful technology anymore. i often write poorly because its slow to handwrite. and slowing down for legibility is insane when i could just type perfectly in the first place.if the best use case is reading old documents or signing checks its no wonder education is failing childr

I haven't written cursive for years and inspired by this article just tried it out and it still works! I never had a pretty hand writting and it's still just as ugly but very much functional.Generally, I still do hand writing in terms of visualizing software with pen and paper but not in cursive but print letters as glace value is much more important here than information density and speed of cursive.I find these fears really unfounded tbh. If we really need to hand write I think

Writing by hand is a basic and essential skill. Cursive is may times better than printing letters. This is an American thing as far as I can tell. My 7th grade teachers in the 90s already where averse to my cursive (moved from latin america) and honestly had a hard time reading it.Ignore cursive at your peril. Its like not learning to do math on paper because we have smartphones.

"I never write cursive these days. Nobody writes it anymore. Nobody can read it, anyway. And I honestly couldn’t write it neatly anymore even if I tried. Cursive is obsolete."This is a rediculous inference - I don't do it, therefore nobody does it and it's obsolete.I for one, write in cursive every day, taking notes in a notebook/journal, and carry a fountain pen to do so. It's just such a nicer experience than writing in biro, which I refuse to do except when

A lot depends on penmanship. My grandmother was taught old school, and her cursive was so precise it looked like a font. Like she didn't use a ruler but everything she wrote till the day she died looked like she did.Myself I've lost the ability to write cursive. Obviously I could get it back with a little practice but I see zero point in doing so. I barely even write anything vs type these days.

I learned cursive in school and haven’t used it at least 20 years, except to read historical curiosities like old letters.While I think it will still be many generations before people can get away with not being able to hand write at all, I’m not so sure it’s a negative. I can type an order of magnitude faster than I can write, to the point where hand writing is frustrating. It just feels like it imposes such limits on expression to go so slowly.

for me, the end of handwriting wasn't where/when I learned it, I learned cursive in kindergarten, and continued it for many years. it wasn't until I ran into teachers who valued time over accuracy that I faulted (it's not defaulted) and started writing scratch (which I can't even read!), and then typing.now, while I have decent typing skills, I can't write a sentence in cursive, let alone in non-cursive - my goto is "please excuse my handwriting, I can'

We were certainly taught cursive, but I don't know a single person who still uses it other than me. Their writing is (for the most part) slow and legible, mine is fast and almost unreadable. More so when I use a fountain pen.Still, it's moot - as the article author said - because I haven't had to handwrite more than my own name in the last 6 months.

Yes, when I said "we learn to write in cursive" I should have said, this is the first and only way we learn to write :) . We actually have the opposite issue. My script handwriting is awful because I never had to learn/use it. For paperwork we sometime have to write letter separately, but it is different than real script writing.

Last week, during a meeting, I found myself scribbling some notes in cursive some 20 years later since having last used it, the only way we have been thought to write in school in an Eastern European country. I didn't know it was possible for anyone to not understand cursive or to forget it, even if one wanted it. This is definitely a thing just in the US.I have been writing in block letters because my writing is tidier this way and have self-taught myself to do it.Maybe this way less