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!

Zorsith ,
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Have you considered a career in medicine? (/s)

I work in IT so YMMV; Functionally, outside of k-12 education I have not really needed handwriting skills. If I don't have a working keyboard available, something has gone very wrong

As long as you can read it, speed would probably be the priority over legibility.

shinysquirrel OP ,

I've heard even in IT exams are still in pen and paper where I'm from.

Zorsith ,
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shinysquirrel OP ,

that was my reaction too lol I think it is for preventing cheating

UncleBadTouch ,
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id suggest finding a style you like online, print off a few pages of text thats fairly large. then trace the original to train your hand where and how to move. then practice without tracing.

No clue if it would actually work, but thats what i did when i got into calligraphy

shinysquirrel OP ,

I could trace in the beginning thanks!

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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