Do you have poor penmanship/handwriting?

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I got in trouble a lot in school for this. My handwriting was only nice if I took (too) long to write anything. If I want good penmanship, I have to cramp my own hand to do it!

My handwriting is beyond appalling, I can't even read it, it looks like the output of an ECG. At a push I can fill in a form neatly or hand write a short note, but I then tend to make daft mistakes. I remember at school, each new book was a new chance, my writing always returned to form after the first page. I was referred to the special needs unit in school for my handwriting, I think they just gave up with me in the end though.

I type everything now, on the plus side 75-80 WPM typing speed

Jason.

Although it has gotten legible in recent years, my penmanship was very poor during my childhood. Today, my writing is very male-like with very few bubbly or rounded letters. I`ve never had the best fine-motor skills.

Yep, mine is horrendous. I'm embarrassed to write thank-you notes or invitations. I'm a girl, and, according to stereotypes, I should be able to write neat pretty (or cute or beautiful) cursive. Mine isn't quite chicken scratch, 'cause it is softer than that. . .but I'm pretty sure by the time my 4-year old learns to read her handwriting will best mine. . .

Interesting, someone ( co-worker) recently pointed out I actually write some numbers backwards from usual. Also, I was long ago told to cross my sevens so people would know that is what they actually were.
I do seem to have some perceptual difficulties, I usually cannot follow elaborate diagrams, etc. either.

Sincerely,
Matthew

Mine was horrible, and is still not great. I learned to read and write on my own, from following the text when my mother read for me, years before entering school. When my teachers tried to make me write less ugly, I asked them why they were picking on my handwriting, when my classmates couldn't even spell correctly... They gave up on me after a while. These days I usually write capitalized unless it is a longer text, which is very rare, as I'd normally be typing on a keyboard instead.

Mine is bad and has never improved since elementary school. It ranges from below average to pure unreadable chicken scratch depending on circumstances. Despite receiving extra tutoring outside of class (often during recess) I never successfully learned cursive. I type everything now.

I wanted nice handwriting so I ditched my cursive back in my late 'teens and developed a couple other ways of writing. Now I mostly use manuscript handwriting (I think it's called; what you learned before cursive) and for anything I want to look nice, I use all caps and just make the first letter a little bigger when capitalizing. It's slow as hell, but people remark that my handwriting is nice now. I voted "No," but my original handwriting was atrocious and I could never hold the pen correctly, according to the teacher. But screw all of them, since that's how I held my paintbrush and pencils for ART, which I used to be awesome at.

I can also draw very well but do not have good ( it's attrocious ) handwriting.

A bit frustrating.

I have decent handwriting.

I do okay now, but when I was a kid, I couldn't do it. And to make it worse, my maiden name was Palmer and we were learning the "Palmer Method". And my signature--I don't even try. I just think my name and move my hand. It could say anything.

My handwriting sucks sometimes even I cannot read it.

Couldn't agree more. I write well now but it's too much about the look unless I'm focusing on an intense idea I want to get down exactly the way i think it - then I have bad handwriting because I'm focusing on the idea instead of the handwriting.

My god, I thought I was insane... I cannot write the same signiture, ever! It's always different, my handwriting is atrocious, unless I write extremely slow, which I cannot do since my attention span is so limited.

I look back on something I've just written, and it starts out semi-neat, and then you can see where the "inspiration" kicks in and hot damn, I've turned into a child. In fact, I've seen children write far better than me, haha. My teacher would always go apeshit over my handwriting, so one day I spent ages on whatever we were doing, making my handwriting perfect, she took me and a random girl sitting next to me out of the room and accused her of writing it for me.

I was always great at spelling, though, I thought that is what really matters so have never bothered to practice.

I have awful handwriting. I have to use a laptop in my exams because my handwriting is illegible.

It's terrible and cannot be improved. I tried and tried, bought all sorts of penmanship books when I was younger. If I go very slowly it can be read. When I was in elementary school I had a few teachers who made me repeat penmanship as well, they were convinced I was not trying very hard. The funny thing is that I can draw fairly well.