Handwriting: Cursive or Unjoined?

It's become apparent to me lately, that many people don't do cursive writing, but what's even more odd, is I found that it's boys who do, cursive writing more, and girls tend to go for unjoined. I'm not sure of correlation, this is just what I noticed, so may well be wrong.

But would be interested in finding, there a simple poll here. And if you reply please say whether male or female.

I'm just curious, as I tend to do cursive writing.

I like to write joined-up. It might not be as neat as my unjoined writing but it's probably twice as fast.

Block letters/unjoined all the way.

Because it's faster and my handwriting is more readable that way. But if I don't want people to know I wrote something then I write in cursive, because it's slightly less recognizable than my unjoined handwriting.

I use unjoined writing.
Mainly because when I write with my writing joined up, it looks like a six year old has written it. Mind you, my unjoined writing isn't much better...

I think the word you mean is "printed" rather than... "unjoined".

I use a mixture of the two.

Hark, no one wants to read block letters when you're old. D: My highschool teachers all bannananted it. Trufax.

I use both. My cursive is really surprisingly very nice, considering I never followed any of the rules when learning, and I hold my pencil the wrong way.

I never actually learned script, I was taught it but it wasn't a graded part of 3rd grade, so I didn't care to try. To this day I still need my mom to translate birthday cards for me.

So I write in plain old, messy, unreadable, print.

I write in what my classmates call "chickenscratch" xD

'Tis a mix of cursive and print. The tails of "g"s get joined with "e"s, and "m"s tent to connect with just about anything next to them, haha. The more I'm trying to keep up with an idea, the more my writing joins together. The more I'm trying to actually make it readable, the less my letters join together.

From when I was eight until I was twelve I was forbidden to use print. We were taught joined (that's what we called it!) writing rather thoroughly.

Now I use print, but obviously things get joined together, es and ings and, you know. Stuff.

(Also, my g's are just deformed s's. They're cool).

I use joined-up writing. It's quicker, and it's all done in a handful of pen-strokes, which works for me 'cause I like the flow of unbrokenness. Nobody else can read it, but I call it "Writer's Hand", because when I'm on a rare but somewhat bountiful roll, my ideas come so fast that I have to get it down as quickly as possible.

Rosey Unicorn wrote: The tails of "g"s get joined with "e"s, and "m"s tent to connect with just about anything next to them, haha.

Same here, mine's a hybrid of cursive and print. XD

I've never been able to write in cursive quickly.

Then again, I've never been able to touch-type quickly, either, so I still peck (I've gotten so good I don't need to look at the keys anymore!)

If I don't want people to know I wrote something, I do it in cursive, but it takes longer (about as long as it takes me to write backwards, but that's another story...)

I do unjoined writing. Tried cursive, didn't really like it. I'm not very good at it and I'm slow.

And even my unjoined writing style is wrong (or so I'm told...)

We were taught cursive writing in... the third grade? We had been under the impression that it was required in middle and high school, so we all learned and wrote that way until sixth grade when we found out that no one cared how we wrote.

Now, I only know how to write my name and several other letters in cursive. I write in print. (or I guess, unjoined.)

PenguinAttack wrote:
Hark, no one wants to read block letters when you're old. D: My highschool teachers all bannananted it. Trufax.

My highschool teachers didn't mind either way. They encouraged script but they always gave way when it came to some people (myself included). I think they were actually amused by the chosen few's print handwriting.

For example, this one dude had a curly yet sharp handwriting that is truly indescribable. It's not bad but it's just so weird. 0o

I wrote cursive when I was 6 and continued writing it until I turned 14. Then I switched to print because I found it easier.