It’s great! Only thing I’d recommend is to make the dot above the “i” more of a dot, less of a line.
gympol•
You've got two different styles of "a". Although machine typefaces usually use the style you've got in "a delight", people writing by hand usually do the style you've got in "unusual", I think. They're both readable, but maybe the second one looks more native. To me.
I agree with others who say it should be a dot over the "i"s. I've seen a few people do small circles, and a very few a tiny vertical line like an apostrophe, but never a horizontal line.
All of it is easily readable. A fussy teacher might remind you not to put the bottoms of the letters below the guideline. (Like the "sim" of "simplicity". The tail of the "p" is meant to go below the line obviously.")
Phaeomolis•
Perfectly fine, but the ī instead of i is kind of throwing me off. Sometimes it connects to other letters, like "delight" looks kind of like "detight".
untempered_fate•
Perfectly legible 👍
eternal-harvest•
The dash above the i is the only thing I'd change. Everything else looks very nice.
PTCruiserApologist•
I'd guess you're korean
pooksuim••OP
Thank you guys! I've never thought about the way I write 'i'. I write i like that because I can't make a clear dot with a pen just at once. Can you let me know how you write i?
Certain_Plan_5819•
Its already better than mine.
North_Ad_5372•
Other people have mentioned the ī should be i.
It would also help if you do the little upturn on the t like you have done at the end of delight. It's not necessary but it's something a lot of people do and does help legibility.
Beautiful-Muscle2661•
It is legible. I will say Your S sometimes looks like the number 5 because of how you aren’t connecting it always in a smooth curve st the top.
coolbuilder1987•
A lot of handwriting is adding your flair, and making it unique to yourself. Your handwriting is very unique, and definitely readable. In my opinion it looks cool and I wouldn’t change it
AromaticInxkid•
If you can read it it doesn't matter. Bonus points if other people can read it.
LeakyFountainPen•
I think it's cool! Very boxy, but that's not a bad thing, just distinctive.
Atmosphere_259•
It's okay. It's pretty easy to read.
Shinyhero30•
It’s actually very legible.
You’ll find some natives have horrid handwriting (I am one of them) so don’t sweat it.
What I will say is that the i dot being a line is bit strange but I’ve seen my linguistics professor literally write it like that and she’s like born in CA native like I am so to each their own I guess.
RandomHuman369•
It's definitely good and very neat, but I'd guess that in your native script all characters are the same height. In latin scripts (particularly hand written), some letters are tall (like h, t or l); other letters drop down below the line (like y, g or q); the rest of the letters are compact (like a, m or c) - don't be afraid to make the distinction. It might be helpful to find examples of handwritten English to help you (although some older writing is a lot more fancy and considered less legible today). Children's handwriting books might also be useful - they often have letters that you can trace over to practice the different shapes.
You might also like to try joining up your letters, rather than printing them (with small spaces between the letters) like you've done here, to make the words flow more and to develop your own style. In English, our letters don't have the same precision that other languages and scripts do; before typing was invented, handwriting style was often used to convey personality.
This is entirely optional though and you may find that your writing is more legible printed, it's just a common writing progression that is often encouraged in schools. Plus, it's often easier to write quickly when the letters are joined up (after some practice).
obsidian_butterfly•
The a you use in unusual is the a... honestly I've only ever seen that one used. You really only see an 'a' that looks like you see here in text in print. People don't use it otherwise because it's more cumbersome to write. We all know what it is but it is weird to see.
Also your i... the dash makes it connect things and doesn't immediately read as the letter 'i'. You really want a dot. If you need help there, try writing it's a whole bunch and keep trying to make thag dash smaller snd smaller. I'd also suggest favoring an up and down motion when dotting an i. If you look at enough English handwriting you'll notice they usually look like tiny little \ marks above the stem of the i... I think we usually do the little dot slash thing from the bottom up, too. But that dash can connect things and make them look like something else. Like, I don't know how to exactly say this politely but where you circled the word "it's" there? Yeah, it looked like a swastika as I was scrolling and thats what made me stop and say "wait what?". It doesn't when I actually look at it, but that's how off the i there is.
I'd also probably say add just a hair's width more space between your letters. English letters shouldn't touch unless its cursive, and even then they flow together rather than bumping together. Mind you a lot of people do that, but it does make reading a little tricky and honestly good handwriting is like half form and half having clearly distinct letters lined up neatly in little groups.
These are nitpick level things. Your hand writing is fine and any English speaker who can read will understand you.
Out of curiosity, are you Asian by chance? The only people I've ever seen use that text a have been my coworkers from China and Korea... possibly because when you are used to those writing systems the text a doesn't feel so unnatural...
BritinOccitanie•
I think it's a really good effort, many English writers have awful handwriting, this is far better already! Very neat, and easy to read. Many commenters have mentioned the dash above the i, so perhaps work on that, it just needs a light dab with the pen. Don't worry about using different styles for letters like your a for example, I do that too with some letters. As you get more used to writing you will loosen up and it will become much easier for you. It's a lovely style! Keep going 💪
EELovesMidkemia•
better than mine
AiRaikuHamburger•
I like it. Looks stylish.
ChirpyMisha•
ss for sss myinged r/sbeve
Dankaati•
The line instead of dot on i is not my favorite but it's fine otherwise.
sqeeezy•
Clean, confident and legible but I don't like the dashes above the i's, I'd be ok with small circles though, just the way I roll.
OttoSilver•
I almost thought it was French handwriting ;)
For what it's worth, you are writing English, but you are not writing IN English. Unlike a language like Korean, English shares a writing system with many other languages, collectively referred to as the Latin script.
As for your question, your writing is fine. It's not great, but many people don't have great handwriting in any script. The most important thing is that it's fairly consistent and easy to understand.
ebrum2010•
It's great, and probably better than most people's, but the line over the i makes it look like a diacritic and not a dot. It looks like the mark some linguists use when writing Old English to denote the vowel is pronounced long, rather than short (I myself prefer the accent mark like Tolkien did).
dunknidu•
Instead of dots, replace the lines over the "i"s with little hearts haha
Air_to_the_Thrown•
Lowercase "a" is not consistent across the document; it should be. Pick one or the other, not both forms...
meowmeow6770•
I can read it no problem
Its perfect
TRFKTA•
Better than mine tbh
skyler_107•
it looks good! Other thing, though - are the notes on "its simplicity", "delights", "seems appropriate", etc telling you to put an apostrophe in front of the "s"? Bc that would be incorrect; the way you wrote it is correct.
GIowZ•
don’t write the a font that’s on a keyboard. Write a they way you did in the word “arrived”
OrangeQira•
It’s delightful but strange at the same time? It just feels that it is one step away from being considered the handwriting of Slenderman’s victims, but I might be getting influenced by all those satanic stars you got in the paper ✝️💀
justHoma•
It’s readable. I won’t consider it’s good, but it can be in top 50% cos less and less people nowadays hand write something.
My handwringing is much worse
AlannaAbhorsen•
What was the criticism of your “s”?
—mind, my s and g can…oh
You have a good instructor they’re trying to keep your s and g becoming too similar (this is why I loop my ‘g’)
Barbatus_42•
It's better than mine!
PaleMeet9040•
Your “I”s should have dots not lines above them it’s mostly fine but simplicity looks like simplictty. Also very compact the letters shouldn’t touch eachother unless your writing in cursive. I can see how some people might think your ss implicitly also looks like a simpliaty. Otherwise honestly it’s neater than mine and perfectly readable.
Edit: I just looked at “provokes” those letters desperately need some breathing room there all merged together.
Possible_Yak_7258•
Seriously, it's really good. But, as an honest critique, you should space your letters a little bit more. But, other than that, it's really good. Keep going!
throwthisfar_faraway•
Only thing that jumps out at me is the “i”. “ī” is simply wrong. Right away the style of writing struck me as potentially Korean hand, can that be? The rest looks great in general!!
BitchSpiteful•
It looks much better than mine
SpiritedCareer2707•
It's superior to most native speakers. I have a teenager that I have to make rewrite things a few times so that I can read them.
Zaphied•
Easily sight readable. This is a compliment. You do not seem to vary in style, random capitalization, size, or write in spiderwebs, scribbly cross outs, nor chicken scratches. Actually fairly envious, one would think I've had a stroke reading mine.
conuly•
It's legible, which is a lot better than you can say about my handwriting.
Looks like you come down a little heavy with the pen, though, and you do seem to crowd your letters a little bit. And another commenter is correct that your tall letters are not consistently, well, tall. If you look at the [children's worksheets here,](https://www.worksheetworks.com/english/writing/handwriting.html) you'll see that they have three lines - the small letters go up to the midline, and the tall letters go up to the tippy-top. You can make your own handwriting worksheets that way - if you want something to copy, be sure to use their print template.
Edit: And yes, the i's - but everybody else has covered that ad nauseum.
GiveMeTheCI•
Better than mine
bullettrain•
It's very readable. I'm a native English speaker and my handwriting is much worse than this.
PeerlessManatee•
Better than mine lol
iamcleek•
it's better than mine
Estebesol•
Neater than mine.
Blutrumpeter•
It's pretty legible only odd thing is the line over the i
Fruitsdog•
better than most native speakers I know lol
JamboCollins•
Looks fine
bherH-on•
Definitely legible. The ī for i is a bit unusual, as is the r that looks like b and the a with two stories (it’s usually one in handwriting but lots of people use the two story one). Maybe try to make them sit on the line more.
smackmyass321•
Very good, the only thing you have should change is the line above the i, which makes it look like ī (usually used in pronunciation guides for words, sometimes borrowed from other languages) but other than that, your handwriting is very legible