What do you think of my handwriting? don't patronize me.

Legible but not particularly neat

-Your r's are hard to tell apart from your t's -Your y's and u's could use some improvement 

Could be nicer looking, but I was able to read it all so it's fine.

It’s not the neatest, but it’s legible. I’ve seen worse from native speakers. One important thing note is that a comma is never alone. You have a comma starting line two. When you use a comma, it’s always at the end of a word, even at the end of the brackets.

Your handwriting looks like you're used to writing in the opposite direction. Is definitely legible, but it almost seems like you have to concentrate to get that out. That's also just part of learning a language. To be fair though, my handwriting in Chinese is some hot bullshit

Readable. If you want specific critiques, try to give more definition to both your lowercase and uppercase R. Specifically in "computer", it's hardly recognisable. Same with "reading", I would have thought that was a lowercase T if shown it in isolation.

Really not a fan of the Es having the round part on the line and the curved bit under. It is something I have never seen done and makes it look, to me, childlike.

Looks messy. A lot of your characters are also done incorrectly. You should do one of [these work sheets](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.freebiefindingmom.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2023%2F08%2Fprintable-tracing-ABC-worksheets-PDF-downloads-791x1024.jpg&f=1&ipt=0cf5f2e7a0a1e83cd3d211995dac0597b2e8493492cf3f75a1f0c18b2dc80168) The most important thing for clear handwriting is consistency. The [x-height](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-height?wprov=sfla1) of each letter should be the same height and well spaced. The ascenders (bdhkl) and descenders (qypgj) will poke out of it, but should be about the same too. It's also important to be very distinct with things that can be misread. You have Cs that look like Es and As that look like Us.

Commas go right after words, they’re never spaced out and alone like that that. It’s word, comma, and then the space (as I’m writing it now). You should really work on your lowercase r. The downward curve is an important aspect of the letter that you can’t read it without. Your r’s kinda look like a lazy t.

It's okay. Very readable, a bit messy, and you need to work on your lower case "r". Your lower case "e" also dips below the line, which it isn't supposed to do. Some letters do have tails that drop down (g, j, p, q, y), but e is just a little round guy like c and G.

Not bad. The important thing is it's easy to understand and yours is

You can write right to left, top to bottom that's a thumbs up for skill.

Would be hard for me to take someone seriously with that penmanship. You were right to ask. Printout guides and do them as a child would. Just so you know, I did that for learning Cyrillic handwriting and people say I write well.

All I'm going to say is that you probably shouldn't come up with any world-changing theorems that you have to write down in your margin.

Your handwriting is definitely more legible than some native speakers, myself included, though I agree that the lowercase r looks a little odd. In general it kind of looks like you learned to write these letters by approximating the shapes (if that makes sense) rather than learning how they are formed. The starting point and the path your pen takes can make a big impact on helping the letters seem “right.” Hopefully this suggestion won’t be seen as too patronizing, but [this website](https://toddler-net.com/letter-tracing-worksheets.html) actually has very helpful worksheets for all of the letters with arrows showing how they are written.

Pretty good. \* Lowercase "e" should not drop below the line. It's not a mirror image of "g". \* Lowercase "p" does drop below the line. Yours looks like "comPuter" instead of "computer" \* Your owercase "r"s don't look quite right.

One of the reasons people are saying the writing is not neat is because your e should not extend below the line. You are writing e like a backwards g, and it makes your writing look jagged and childish, since there are so many e's in the language. For example, look at your written word college, then compare it to what I just typed. The only letter that should extend below the line is g. Similarly, the only letters that should be taller than the others is L (written as a capital here so you can tell it apart from i easier). Fix the e, and your handwriting will improve a ton.

A lot of your letters are misformed. (Your e's are particularly annoying.) Your lower case r's look like t's and your upper case R looks like an A. Several of your letters look like you're writing them with upward strokes, so they're messy because you're pushing the pen when you should be pulling it. There are LOADS of handwriting guides on Youtube. Check them out.

Others have already pointed out that t looks like r here. Also the c in science looks like an e to me. A native speaker would never start a line with a comma; put it at the end of the previous line instead, even though it’s already crowded. Otherwise it looks at least as neat and legible as a grade schooler’s, and better than most. If I saw this in the wild I would know that the author was not native to using the Roman alphabet, but I would have no trouble reading it. Practice makes perfect, keep up the good work!

Mostly ok but your “r”s need work - they look like “t”s to me.

you write your e's going under the line which is odd, never seen that you probably shouldn't do that. Your r's also look wrong, kind of like a t. It's legible enough.

Honestly looks like an elementary school student’s level of handwriting. Looks like you’re not making some of these letters in the correct way and some of the letters are too high or low on the line. There are practice sheets that students use in school to learn how to form their letters. It shows you where to start and stop to form them properly and then it’s just practice. To be fair, some native speakers/writers have handwriting like this or worse as adults. But often these issues will be fixed in grade school.

The only major thing i see thats unlike english writing is the way the R is written

your "p" needs to have the tail drop below the line, but the tails of e and a have to be sitting on the line (the base of a and the tail should be level) Look at how the font here on reddit shows that. Lowercase "p" drops below the line while "e" stays on it. If youre struggling I suggest using children's handwriting practice

Child like.. 💫

Idiosyncratic but readable.

Your T, R and Cs could use some work. Also, Es don't have tails that go below the line.

It is very legible, but seems identifiably written by someone whose first language isn’t English, and that probably doesn’t use the Roman script. This is fine as it is perfectly understandable and I know a lot of native speakers with substantially less legible writing than this. However, given that you are printing letters rather than using cursive script, the stroke order errors in each letter, coupled with the slight lean to the left as well, all stand out. Lots have commented on above / below the line (‘e’ in particular), but also your use of punctuation (particularly the comma at the beginning of the second line) really stood out to me as it makes this look a lot like you are copying visible letters from a screen rather than ‘writing’. The comma should be directly after a word. In the example (as would happen writing on a phone) the comma has been accidentally shunted to the line below because of the Square bracket usage on [redacted] followed by a space, but this is very unnatural in hand written text.

It looks like you might need to review which letters have tails that go below the line and which ones stay above the line. For example, the tail of  "p" in "computer" should go below the line. And "e" should all stay above the line. Your "r" looks similar to "t". The "c" in "science" looks too much like an "e". And the capital "I" sometimes looks like a boxy capital "C", especially in "I like reading". But these aren't that big of a deal if you're just going for it being readable. 

It’s very neat and easy to read for the most part. You could make some improvements like making sure your lowercase e’s are above the lines, deciding on a look for the lowercase t’s-the t in ‘third’ and the t’s in your other words are different and your lowercase r’s don’t look like r’s. To write an r, draw a line straight down then trace that line back up and create a curved line that comes away from the straight line almost at the top. It looks like you’re creating a loop to make the r and that’s what is making it look odd.

Not the neatest. I would honestly suggest putting your letters closer together to make it easier to read.

I can read it but it’s too big and looks like someone copying a foreign language off google translate, make the spaces a little tighter and less curves, simple as that

Your e consistently drops below the line, which is unusual. Your a is also often below the surrounding letters. Your r is strange and, as somebody else said, easily confused with a t. The c in science looks like an e. But none of that is unusually bad, and it's mostly aesthetic. 9/10 for function.

just needs be mor reliable, in general it's very good, above average in respects... except for the odd letter, that's complete illegible garbage, i can only Recognnize the R in Computer thanks to the rest of the word, and it looks like you wrote Seience (sorry if that happened to be a actual spelling error), also you could do a much better job of keeping you're letters on the line. hope that helps

If you work a little more to make sure the bottoms of your letters stay on top of the line you're writing on, it will look a lot nicer. In the word "college", 'ege' is written through the line instead on top, which makes it look a little childish. Also, try to ensure that your lowercase letters are all generally the same height -- the 'p' in "computer" looks like a capital P because it's too tall.

I am not going to lie growing up the handwriting practice papers and write offs definitely improved my handwriting. Now I wouldn’t suggest write offs because, that was a punishment lmaoo but the handwriting sheets I mean, why not try it every once in a while but overall I could read it though !

It looks decent but you can improve your handwriting.

Hi! I look at your handwriting and I can read and understand it. You convey facts and also something of your personality. It serves you well! I can also draw the inference that you are a learner, probably one whose native alphabet is different. I wouldn’t say your handwriting looks childish. I’d say it looks like the hand of someone practicing putting together less-than-familiar shapes and meanings. I’m curious whether your native language reads from right to left. I’m correct or not; but you’ve still pulled a ton of learning together to write us this note. Maybe keep a handwritten daily journal—today’s lessons—to keep practicing. Don’t worry too much about the beauty of your handwriting. You can study calligraphy next! 😉

I can read it. Remember p and j extend below the line. I remember trying to learn to write Arabic. I would look at the book and then look at my page and I would think nobody will even recognise this as Arabic writing LoL. It looked like I recently had a traumatic brain injury and was making up some imaginary language. I eventually found worksheets that had dotted lines for me to trace over. The lines get smaller and further apart as you go until eventually you reach the unit where there are only some dots to join. I did this practice for five weeks and finally my writing was vaguely acceptable and legible. It was a start. I was 36 and I was using kindergarten practice worksheets. They really helped. You can find some here if you want to try the same. https://www.k5learning.com/free-preschool-kindergarten-worksheets/sentences/tracing

When you write a "g," it looks like you're making it one continuous motion, starting at the bottom of the circle "o" loop and going clockwise all the way to the tail (descender). Instead, do it very similarly to the way you write an "a," except for the tail. Start on the right side, make the circle "o" part counterclockwise (anti-clockwise), then reverse direction and go down for the tail. Your "y" looks a lot like your "g," also. Write a "y" using 2 separate straight diagonal lines; one short line angled from the top left to the bottom right, then a longer one from the top right to the far bottom left. The longer line should just touch the end of the shorter one. How are you writing the "r?" It looks like you start at the bottom, go to the top, then come down a little to make the horizontal nose or shoulder that goes left then right. Instead, start at the top, come straight down all the way to the bottom, then go back up (overwriting the same line) until you're almost back at the top, then make a curved hook that goes only to the right. Your "c" and "e" are too similar, too. Don't start the "c" with a loop at the top; that makes it too much like an "e." Just make it a semi-circle with the opening to the right. Overall, your handwriting is neater than mine, I'm being pretty nit-picky here. Nice job overall!

I like your f's they're fancy looking. Your e's are a bit low, the tail sits on the line not below the line. Your lower-case c's look a lot like "e" so try to get rid of the little curl at the top. The g's are okay but they would be more legible if they looked more like your y's with the top rounded off, or like an "a" with a tail. The r's are a bit unusual, like little "t"s almost. I would say biggest issues for me are the 'e' position and the 'r' shape. Overall pretty good. The best thing to do is probably practice some kindergarden/primary school writing exercises where you trace the letters over and over until it becomes muscle memory. Good luck!

Letters only have two heights. Either all the way up like “A,” or half way like “a.” That’s something to work on. Also, “e” doesn’t go below the line.

your r looks like the letter t

You're doing great so far! I've read native folks with worse handwriting for sure. What will help you a lot is being consistent with where letters should go in relation to the line. Lowercase "e" should be entirely on the line. Your r also looks a bit strange. "r" can be drawn a number of ways , but try just drawing a straight line down and then a small curve to the right at the top.

I like it! At first glance it looks likes you're sloppy with that baseline, but you're amazingly consistent about it. I've never seen Es dropped like that.

It has a few quirks, but I find it legible. I would work on raising your “e” a little. It looks like you start it on the line. It should end with the lower curve on the line. We drill handwriting a lot in early grades. The practice sheets have marks indicating where to start and arrows for direction. Then we just repeat the same letter over and over and over.

Remember that new lines start on the left. You placed your final word “juices” in the middle of your last line, and in a paragraph like this, even just one remaining word on its own final line gets left-aligned. (It can be different with poetry, however.) I agree with the others’ notes for you. But I could read every word, and that is commendable!

Not in a weird way; but I’m curious to see how you hold your pen/pencil. For context I study early childhood education; the shape of your letters and the spacing suggests you’re not holding the writing tool optimally for what is considered normal. Google “how to hold a pencil” and see if you’re doing it the standard way. Besides that, your letters are legible and spaced well enough. Seems to be at a late Elementary school level imo, but someone might know better.

Not bad, and far more legible than my handwriting sometimes is. You're doing great, so keep practicing! Since you wanted specific feedback on your handwriting, here are a few things which stood out to me. However, and I cannot stress this enough, I had zero trouble reading what you wrote, so your handwriting is looking good! * lower-case r's and t's are a bit similar * you could use some practice minding the line, but worth noting that letters with bottom curves seem to cause you the most issue (lower-case e, s, a, etc.) * I notice the u's close up a little bit too much and can look like a's (see the word "juice" at the end), and some a's are a little too open at the top and look like u's (see the word "and" right before "fresh juice") I saw you asked about how to practice. There have been a few times in my life where I wanted (or needed) to change how I write a character, or I want to train myself to be able to naturally write the same character multiple ways. What I do in that case is I will write the same letter (or number) over and over again until I fill a notebook page with it, picking the pen up between every character. Fill a page with one letter, then fill a page with words that use the letter. At some point, I've written that letter so many times in such a short period with nothing else to focus on that I can literally feel how clean or messy my writing is. Keep doing it every day or every few days until I'm satisfied with how my handwriting looks. But weirdly specific hyperfocus isn't everybody's style! If you just want some practice worksheets, you could try looking up handwriting worksheets for homeschooling. If the designs being childlike feel discouraging because they're for kids, you could look up, there are also worksheets for adult literacy courses. Tons free online to download.

Slightly wonky but otherwise pretty good.

I was able to read everything well. The only criticisms I have are that your lower case Rs could use a little work, and while your e and a look fine, the bottoms should not go below the line like with y or g. I saw that often enough that I think it’s intentional. It’s still legible, but I think most readers will notice it on lined paper. But not like we’d judge harshly, it’s just idiosyncratic. Good job though!!

It looks pretty good and legible! However, if you wanted some feedback, your lowercase Es should end at the bottom of the line and your lower case Js should end below the line

Childish

I have students who give me a much harder time reading. However, a few things to help you improve: The line of the r is too high,it gets confused with a t. The p and j should go below the line. The g should be closed. The y should be more opened (it almost looks like a g) The u should be more opened, it sometimes looks too much like an a. The e shouldn't go below the line. Don't feel bad or discouraged, it's really not as bad as I make it look.

Perfectly readable but it looks messy

I’m guessing you’re left handed and kind of trying for an aesthetic, not writing naturally. 

What are "fresh jails?"

Only because we're in the English subreddit, "don't patronize me" in the title is a pretty weird thing to say.

Looks like from 5-6 yo child

It feels like you’re doing it on purpose

I can read it. it looks a bit messy and juvenile, but That’s not necessarily a huge problem. there are native speakers with much worse handwriting, so don’t be too hard on yourself. 1) Where did you learn to write your “r” like that? They look like “t”, if it was written on its own I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. 2) “a” and “e” does not go below the line. Only y, g, q, j, and p.

I have this same problem that I'm trying to fix, make sure your c's don't look like e's. R's look like t's. Put all the letters on the same line-- like, put the tail of the p below the line, and the tail of the e is on the line, not below. Tail of the j is below the line. Handwriting could be smaller in general

Very legible - which is more than I can say of some native writers! One thing not yet mentioned that stands out to me: the lowercase p should have the loop above the line and the rest below the line, similar to how the y is positioned.  That said there's only one of those in your sample so hard to say if that's something you do all the time or not

Put your letters closer together

what’s your native language? i’m curious if you don’t mind

pretty standard tbh, but why does all american write in block letters? in my country we teach little kids to write cursive

where are you from? and do you guys not use latin?

This is perfectly legible. Poor word choice on "don't patronize me", however. Also, don't write \[Redacted\]. You can just make up a fake name.

Aw, looks nice! Great job, OP!