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

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

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Gotta love that Pilot G2

The Sharpie Pen (which has the feel of their marker, but an extremely fine point) is the best writing implement that I have ever used.

Along those lines these ones are pretty wonderful and they write permanently on absolutely anything.

http://www.amazon.com/Sarstedt-Permanent-Plastic-Glass-Tubes...

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

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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.

What type of pen did you get? I've been writing with the G2s for a long time now, but a fountain pen has been very tempting...

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.

I found math classes particularly good for developing my Greek handwriting. (I'm not making this up.)

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

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My handwriting was always pretty bad and erratic; no doubt because I spent most of my time at a keyboard. But a couple years ago I decided to basically engineer myself a style of handwriting, first designing an alphabet, then training myself to use it (and only it). That project has grown to something of a full-fledged writing system. I would recommend to any geeks that they take a couple weeks to work out something…

Did you found any place where they have nice models of letters to get some inspiration and pick the ones I like? I just did a quick search but did not found any satisfying results yet.

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

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I was home-schooled my entire life. I wrote everything on the computer; notes, todo's, letters, essays, everything . My dad is a writer and he would give me essays and books to grammar-check for him when I was young, so my English grammar is pretty good. My handwriting, however, is so embarrassing. I write in all capital letters and it looks like chicken-scratch. Hell, I can't honestly say I even know how to write al…

http://www.paperpenalia.com/handwriting.html

The main point:

>People for whom writing comes more easily may rest their hands fairly heavily on the paper, but their forearms and shoulders move as they write. Their writing has a cadence that shows they’re using at least some of the right muscle groups. They don’t draw the letters with their fingers; the fingers serve more as guides.

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