How can I improve my handwriting?

I'm going to university this September. Nearly everybody says "In university they don't try to understand what you've written it is unintelligible." My handwriting is incredibly ugly. I want to improve it by the time I go to uni.

In elementary school they only taught me cursive handwriting. And I never bothered to learn print handwriting. I can write like that but I'm really slow at it.

How can I improve my handwriting? Which exercises I should do?

Thanks in advance!

RandomStickman ,
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In my personal experience the most of the time I've hand written stuff that needs to be graded are mid term and final exams. 90% of the time are digitally typed essays and research papers. I've only written in cursive but my profs are mostly older and I've never got any complaints about it. Also most profs out there are trying to give you as much help as possible. They're not out there to try and fail you. Most of them anyway lol.

I've also never used laptops in class and have only taken notes by hand. Maybe practice like that would help?

shinysquirrel OP ,

I've heard in my country profs can be just plain jerk. They can chose to not pass you just because you critiqued them. I've heard plenty of stories like this.

foggy ,

It's a motor skill. Consistent deliberate practice will yield results.

Write very very slowly. Practice all the specific movements for all letter combos. Only allow your speed of writing to increase if the quality doesn't suffer.

It's literally exactly like playing piano to your brain.

explore_broaden ,

My handwriting isn’t very good, and I recently finished university. I avoided handwriting any time I could by typing things out and printing them off as needed, pretty much the only time I had to submit handwritten work was on exams, and for those I mostly just wrote a little slower than I usually would to make it a little neater (enough to be legible by others if they make some effort).

I never experienced exams I did at the university I went to (in the US) being marked off because they couldn’t read it, and I think the TAs that did most of the grading (students from higher years or graduate students) probably aren’t mean enough to take off points from a fellow student just for “bad handwriting.” Whoever was grading my exams was probably annoyed at having to read my writing, but I didn’t really encounter any big problems.

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