Uh... What does that say?

As I was writing a page title in big curvaceous letters the other day, my boyfriend commented on the fact that girls always seem to have much better handwriting than guys. He reckoned he couldn’t write the same words as neatly and put it down to the fact that he’s a guy finishing off with “you should write a blog about that.” So Cliff, here’s the blog... :)
I have no idea why this is; whether there’s a gene that all guys possess that prevents them writing neatly or that they just spend more time running about or playing video games to bother writing stuff down neatly. I mean, you don’t need good handwriting to be a sports star or an epic gamer! Either way it’s a mystery.

However, there are a few exceptions to this rule. Matt, who also blogs (on the occasional blue moon nights when he bothers... *chough chough*) has weirdly neat handwriting. His posh, joined up letters could easily compete with some girls I know. (Ok, no offence girls with bad handwriting and no offence Matt for comparing you to a girl. It was meant to be a compliment...)

There are also other handwriting divides. It is widely known that right handed people mainly have better handwriting than most lefthanders. Again, there is no logic except maybe the impracticality of your hand covering what you’ve just written. Maybe.... maybe that means if you’re regularly writing from right to left then lefthanders have the advantage...? Any left-handed Arabic writers out there who could tell me?

I think the biggest “Mr. Meaner” in handwriting crime is the fact that many teachers cannot write neatly. Furthermore, the most frustrating teachers are probably the ones that refuse to believe that their handwriting is totally illegible. Particularly a certain English teacher but that’s another story...

I think maths teachers are the worst. I’m yet to find a single one who has totally legible writing. One of my maths teachers has particularly bad handwriting and it’s almost as if he’s writing in Morse code. He has this uncanny ability to make his ‘u’s, ‘n’s ‘y’s and occasionally some other letters, all look the same.

Maybe handwriting is getting worse because of computers or maybe it’s because we only ever worry about only ourselves being able to read it. Either way, handwriting is generally terrible!