Ask HN: Has your handwriting suffered from years on the keyboard?

Yes, definitely. I find that using a fountain pen improves my handwriting, as well as being more pleasurable than using a biro.

Just as the quality of the language determines that of your code, the quality of your pen determines that of your handwriting. When I use a nice pen, my handwriting's pretty good. When I use a cheap pen, it looks like that of a six-year-old.

Use it or lose it. It's like asking if your weight has suffered from years of sitting on a couch eating pizza every night.

If you type a lot but you also continue to write a lot, your handwriting will be a lot better than if you write a lot less due to keyboard use.

You'll never know if it's better or worse than it would have been without a computer. It might be worse, but it might also be better. Some professions who write a lot are notorious for their bad handwriting, e.g. doctors. And I dare you to read anything my grandfather has written, and he writes most everything by hand!

My handwriting has always looked like a spider fell in an inkwell and the ran across a page. After 10 years using a keyboard, all I can say is that my hand writing has gotten even worse. I do find that if I use a really good pen, it doesn't have to be expensive, that I can write reasonably well, bit it's still crap ... :)