You’d be surprised. My daughter (13) has better penmanship than I do (46). Although I’m sure my left-handedness doesn’t help there.
mwguy@infosec.pub 10 months ago
They’re about to find out that gen Z has horrible penmanship.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Holyginz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Millennial here, haven’t had to seriously write out anything consistently in decades at this point. There’s no way their handwriting can be worse than mine and still be legible lol.
crwcomposer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As a millennial with gen Z teens, theirs is worse, though somehow not illegible, lol. They just write like 6 year olds. You can make out the letters, but it looks like they are the product of a child who’s never held a pencil before.
mwguy@infosec.pub 10 months ago
You’d be so surprised. From my interactions with my younger cousins and in laws, they can’t even write in cursive.
dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As much as I like using cursive, it’s not a necessary writing style and wasn’t taught to me in elementary. I’m 32, so it’s been out of the curriculum here for quite some time.
mwguy@infosec.pub 10 months ago
If you’re going to write, by hand multiple essays in a blue book/exam format throughout a 4-10 year post high school period. You need cursive. It’s faster, easier on the wrist and fingers and easier to read.
CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m in the weird in between gen z and millennial. I only use cursive to sign my name and read grandma’s Christmas card. Frankly, it’s not useful for me. I’m glad we spent the time in school taking typing classes instead of cursive.
What is crazy to me is that my youngest cousins (in their early teens) use the hunt and peck method to type. Despite that, they’re not super slow. I was absolutely shocked when I found that out. I think it was all the years of using a phone or tablet instead of an actual keyboard that created a habit.
mwguy@infosec.pub 10 months ago
They don’t have typing classes anymore. Crazy I know. But my gen Z relatives do the same thing.
Negrodamus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Same and times I’ve had to write my hand cramped up so quickly from those muscles not being active for years
joel_feila@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Actually that is a sign of dysgraphia.
jarfil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Or a sign of “I can’t write half as fast as I can type on a keyboard and it’s driving me nuts”.
Ulv@feddit.nu 10 months ago
Last week of school i found out my history teacher took all my handwritten things too the language teacher and had her copy it into legibility i felt so bad for that lady.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I block print and vary caps and lowercase fairly randomly. It’s also fucking torture, and I would walk right out of school if this were done to me. Oh yeah, I’m Gen X.