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!

Mothra ,
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I doubt you need that. What matters is that you can understand your own writing. Most other things you need to submit will require typing, not handwriting.

But if you want to improve your handwriting, more power to you! Just practice a little every day. Be slow and deliberate with your strokes. See if you can find old calligraphy workbook templates for technical drafting online. Do half an hour of practice a day, practice letters individually, then practice writing stuff. Once you feel more confident try to speed up and see how fast can you writa the same paragraph. Put some 30 hours of practice total and you'll be good to go I believe

rowinxavier ,

First, start big. Get the basic shapes right with large lettering. Ideally you would have something you are comparing to like a stencil or grey printout so you can see the difference between your writing and the target.

After you have the shape fairly good large you can shrink it down. You can take your time getting to that and just make a little progress at a time.

If you find it impossible to shed your current handwriting consider using grid paper to force spacing and maybe try your non-dominant hand.

AgentGrimstone ,

When I was a kid, my parents made me do hand writing exercises. I had to fill entire sheets of paper with slashes and slinky loops.

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