It's a job application.

once you leave elementary school you won't need cursive except to sign your name pretty much. and also putting a space between cursive letters defeats the purpose of it in the first place.

You've never filled out a paper application, have you?

No. I'm too qualified for any job for which you have to fill out a form. :P

Why are people thumbing this down? It's a proven fact. Intelligent people often do have messier writing because their minds work faster and their hands can't keep up

75 thank you

eh sometimes when I'm writing a paper what's going through my head is 3 or 4 sentences ahead of what im writing which means I'm not paying any attention to what I'm actually writing. but I won't claim that makes me more intelegent then the girl across the class who writes perfect. what makes me smarter than her is the fact that she studies 10 hours to get an a on the test while I just show up. also I think the myth about people that aee intelegent having bad hand writing more often than not is truw , but the reasoning people give behind it isn't entirely true. it probably has more to with the fact that most intelegent people are left-brained, inferring that most things they do that are in any way artistic are sub par.

@#111 stop browsing fml on your phone you know you have horrible typos.

You CAN improve handwriting, but most likely you'll end up writing very slowly. I.e. it'll be either readable or fast. Here's how to improve it: grab an example "perfect" handwriting, and copy individual letters as if they were pictures.

Wait, you can write perfectly in cursive but don't because no-one uses cursive? Not only is that incorrect (loads of people use cursive, most people seem to use a combination of cursive and print) but why would you choose to write 'piss-poorly' when you don't have to just because of that? Please tell me I just read this wrong. (obviously it doesn't matter for personal notes but for important stuff I mean)

You CAN practice and change it. It's stupid to think otherwise. I completely changed my handwriting when I was in 7th grade because some of my letters looked like other letters and confused my teachers. I would write sheets after sheets of letters a different way, and whenever I had to write something, I would consciously write it differently. Now I naturally write the way I changed it to.

Many people don't have good handwriting today because they learned to type early. Pretty much the only things I write by hand are the shopping lists and notes on a whiteboard on my fridge. If I have anything more than that, to OpenOffice I go!

i cannot improve my handwriting. i am 26 and still write like a 5 year old. i even taught myself to write with both hands to combat the disibility that affects my dominant hand and it made very little difference. thankfully my job understands and most people can read my writing. i type as much as possible tho

well perfect cursive is near illedigble to most people that don't use it often. and I use a mix of both in the way that most of my letters are standard morphed with cursive so I can write without picking up my pen. which just adds to the messiness of my handwriting