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

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Taking higher level math classes is a good way to force yourself to maintain good handwriting. You quickly learn that if you want to have any chance of finishing a question, your going to have to write your solution neatly and in easily readable steps.

...unless you discover the joy of doing your math homework in LaTeX. Beautiful results.

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

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I think more than a few of us start typing so early that it's hard to separate the two. OTOH, I find that the kinds of pen & paper I use have a significant effect on the quality of my handwriting.

Gotta love that Pilot G2

A few months ago I splurged on a fountain pen that met all my needs (the sleek black lamy studio), and I've never looked back since.

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

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post #31
post #26

Taking higher level math classes is a good way to force yourself to maintain good handwriting. You quickly learn that if you want to have any chance of finishing a question, your going to have to write your solution neatly and in easily readable steps.

...unless you discover the joy of doing your math homework in LaTeX. Beautiful results.

Doesn't quite work for in-class exams where you can't type stuff up.

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

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If you want to do something about the problem I highly recommend:

"Write Now" by Barbara Getty and Inga Dubay [1]

It is a workbook-style introduction to "italic" handwriting. I worked through it a few years ago and to this day my handwriting is still legible. (It was not prior; the learning process was triggered by the realization that consistently I could not read my own handwriting.)

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Write-Now-Complete-Program-Handwriting...

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

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I think more than a few of us start typing so early that it's hard to separate the two. OTOH, I find that the kinds of pen & paper I use have a significant effect on the quality of my handwriting.

Gotta love that Pilot G2

Gotta love those pencils and their undo support :)
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