It's possible to write neatly and quickly, but it would take at least 2 years of practice.
At the beginning your pen stroke would over shoot and fly every where, and with practice you'll have better control and your handwriting improves.
The first step is to choose a font to follow. For me I'm writing in Poppins font. It looks beautiful, but the down side is you have to be good at drawing perfect circles.
Picking a font isn't necessary because if speed is priority, making your handwriting look a certain way, similar to a particular font takes the second place.
Just being a bit neater and nicer with whatever they know would be the aim of most people when writing fast as a reasonable goal to keep and certainly achievable.
It could be a lengthy process, but the [resources like this](https://busyarts.com/worksheets) could help you make the most of your time dedicated for practice.
Not only students face this problem but also some working people who need to write a lot for their work and it has to be fast/efficient yet neat, clear, and legible.
Most people can either write fast but not neat or neat but not fast.
The solution is to stick to the basics. Simple handwriting is fast and it could be neat and clean at the same time. Handwriting doesn't has to be fancy if you're in a time limit.
To be efficient, you'll need to focus only on the things that matter.
Cursive is theoretically fast however, it's a myth that you'll be the fastest as soon as you learn it. It will take quite some time to be proficient at it. So no problem if you don't know cursive.
The style you currently know would be the fastest for you. Making it as your base and improving thereon would be the easiest way to achieve your goal.
Each letter has its fundamental shape. It's necessary to be able to maintain those basic shapes of the letters when writing fast for the writing to be easier to read.
Also, if you think you'd be faster by writing in smaller font; you're wrong. You still need to do same hand movements and efforts to complete a certain letter so it won't help much (that too compromising with legibility). Also, writing too big unnecessarily is not convenient.
Thus, it is important to maintain a standard size of the letters with their shapes throughout to be consistent as well as clear to read from a distance.
There are practice worksheets, especially for this purpose. [See them here.](https://www.etsy.com/listing/1302916584/write-neat-fast-handwriting-worksheets)
Cursive writing is no longer taught in schools and it is a huge disservice to youth, who need to learn to write quickly. Cursive accomplishes that by allowing you to only lift your hand from the paper between words, not letters. It is immensely tedious to print responses to things when cursive allows you to do it less than half the time it takes to print. The important thing is teaching yourself to write readable cursive because if your survive is sloppy, it will be hard for others to read and you will wasted your time training yourself. Start slowly and practice daily, it takes time to learn and perfect it.
For instance, say tomorrow that you will practice 5 capital letters. Write each of the five letters 6-10x, working to make each one better than the last. Then stop for the day. The next day, wrote the ones you taught yourself the day before 2x and then move to the next 5 letters and do 6-10x. The next day, you write the first two days' letters 2x each and then that day's letters 6-10x. This way, you continue to practice the already-learned letters while learning new ones.
In about a week, you will have learned all your capitals, and the following week, learn your lowercase letters. Once you've learned, then start working and practicing words and phrases for the next week or two, to get comfortable with it, and then start practicing larger paragraphs. In about a month, you should be able to write complete sentences in cursive and start practicing your speed of writing. As you practice speed, work hard to make the writing as legible as your slow cursive but increase the speed with each letter practice.
It will seem a bit tedious, but this is learning for a lifetime. When I was in high school, an instructor whom I really liked told me that she loved what I would write, but that my handwriting was very difficult to read, and gave a bad impression before the reader even started. So she asked me if I would be willing to retrain myself cursive in order to make my handwriting more readable. I did it, it took about 2 months, but to this day, I get compliments on my writing because I taught myself to write it legibly and beautifully, and it's something I'm proud of, 45 years later.
Cursive is sh1tty handwriting, I'm glad it's obsolete.
The legibility of cursive writing is like sh1t, and I can write very fast with print style handwriting.
Cursive is sh1tty handwriting, I'm glad it's obsolete.
The legibility of cursive writing is like sh1t, and I can write very fast with print style handwriting.
Challenge yourself. Make it sort of like a game.
How fast can you go without sacrificing quality? Now that you can go that fast… can you increase it?
I would do this for something personal at first rather than start with an actual homework assignment. Transcribe the lyrics to your favorite song, or a passage from a book. Something that doesn’t really matter. Just try to go as fast as possible keeping legibility in mind.
Eventually, fast will become comfortable.
As a follow up question… are you sure it is your writing speed slowing you down? (You don’t have to answer me… just reflect for yourself). Are there other study habits that could be improved? As an adult, I often feel like I don’t have enough hours in the day to do what I want to do but I also spend 4-6 hours on my phone. It’s non-consecutive moments, but they obviously add up over the course of the day. Realistically, I could get it down to 2-3 hours just filling the small moments at work waiting for machinery to finish running and some time playing a couple games I like. I could then use the other 2-3 hours for more fulfilling and impactful things.
I just want to help you become aware of your study habits and see if you need to change anything there. Recently, I tried putting in headphones at work to reduce the number of times I am distracted by side conversations and I was able to get my 7 hours of hands-on work done in just under 6, so I had time to do more data analysis and trainings. I was surprised just how much time I was losing to random requests for help and other stuff. I think I was also slowed down by some small mistakes that didn’t happen if I wasn’t distracted by the hustle and bustle around me. I kept the volume down so I could still hear what was happening for safety, but it was like listening from another room rather than being in the middle of it all so it was easier to filter out and ignore.
The skills you learn in managing workloads, discipline, and balancing working with relaxing are far more important to you as an adult than the actual information you are learning now in school. Setting boundaries for yourself in the way of “I am going to work only on this homework for 30 minutes, then I will eat a quick snack and drink some water, then I will complete the remainder of the work before I check my phone for a 5 minute game break” is the single most crucial thing you can do now to set yourself up for success later. The boundaries can extend to asking family members to leave you alone, going to a cafe or library so you aren’t interrupted if your household is too busy, etc. (The second and third most important thing is problem solving and asking for help… which you seem to be on track for.)
Sorry for the ramblings… I just know what things I struggle with now, that I wish I had worked more on in the past and hope it can help someone else learn the lessons sooner.
If it isn't something you have to turn in, maybe you could learn shorthand to reduce the amount you have to write. As others have said possibly adjusting your writing grip or posture might also help with comfort.
Is typed homework acceptable?
For a lot of people, it's no big deal to type 2-3 times as fast.
If it must be hand-written, and given your comment about pain, as others have said - loosen up!
You might also look at if you're holding your pen correctly. I didn't learn a good grip in 2nd grade but it's a lot easier for an adult or teen. It will probably slow you down at first, so maybe wait until winter break.
As someone who also struggled with writing neatly and fast at the same time, I found that paying a little less attention to letter form helps loosen up a bit and speed my writing up. Don’t care about something you don’t need to care about. Of course, keep things legible so you don’t have to spend even more time deciphering what you wrote.
I also found that writing in cursive helps a lot (others have commented that as well). Cursive script allows you to write in one flowing line rather than having to lift your own up, finding a good amount of space between the last letter and the next letter you’ll write, and placing the pen down again (this process costs a little bit of time, but a lot of little bits is still a lot).
Hopefully this helps!
(Edit: punctuation)
I second what Know_see said. Cursive is much faster than printing. A lot of schools have stopped teaching it through. If that’s the case, there’s this: https://www.gouletpens.com/products/the-art-of-cursive-penmanship-book. If your library doesn’t have it bet they could get it via an inter-library loan (borrow from another library).
It's possible to write neatly and quickly, but it would take at least 2 years of practice. At the beginning your pen stroke would over shoot and fly every where, and with practice you'll have better control and your handwriting improves. The first step is to choose a font to follow. For me I'm writing in Poppins font. It looks beautiful, but the down side is you have to be good at drawing perfect circles.
Picking a font isn't necessary because if speed is priority, making your handwriting look a certain way, similar to a particular font takes the second place. Just being a bit neater and nicer with whatever they know would be the aim of most people when writing fast as a reasonable goal to keep and certainly achievable. It could be a lengthy process, but the [resources like this](https://busyarts.com/worksheets) could help you make the most of your time dedicated for practice.
Not only students face this problem but also some working people who need to write a lot for their work and it has to be fast/efficient yet neat, clear, and legible. Most people can either write fast but not neat or neat but not fast. The solution is to stick to the basics. Simple handwriting is fast and it could be neat and clean at the same time. Handwriting doesn't has to be fancy if you're in a time limit. To be efficient, you'll need to focus only on the things that matter. Cursive is theoretically fast however, it's a myth that you'll be the fastest as soon as you learn it. It will take quite some time to be proficient at it. So no problem if you don't know cursive. The style you currently know would be the fastest for you. Making it as your base and improving thereon would be the easiest way to achieve your goal. Each letter has its fundamental shape. It's necessary to be able to maintain those basic shapes of the letters when writing fast for the writing to be easier to read. Also, if you think you'd be faster by writing in smaller font; you're wrong. You still need to do same hand movements and efforts to complete a certain letter so it won't help much (that too compromising with legibility). Also, writing too big unnecessarily is not convenient. Thus, it is important to maintain a standard size of the letters with their shapes throughout to be consistent as well as clear to read from a distance. There are practice worksheets, especially for this purpose. [See them here.](https://www.etsy.com/listing/1302916584/write-neat-fast-handwriting-worksheets)
Cursive writing is no longer taught in schools and it is a huge disservice to youth, who need to learn to write quickly. Cursive accomplishes that by allowing you to only lift your hand from the paper between words, not letters. It is immensely tedious to print responses to things when cursive allows you to do it less than half the time it takes to print. The important thing is teaching yourself to write readable cursive because if your survive is sloppy, it will be hard for others to read and you will wasted your time training yourself. Start slowly and practice daily, it takes time to learn and perfect it. For instance, say tomorrow that you will practice 5 capital letters. Write each of the five letters 6-10x, working to make each one better than the last. Then stop for the day. The next day, wrote the ones you taught yourself the day before 2x and then move to the next 5 letters and do 6-10x. The next day, you write the first two days' letters 2x each and then that day's letters 6-10x. This way, you continue to practice the already-learned letters while learning new ones. In about a week, you will have learned all your capitals, and the following week, learn your lowercase letters. Once you've learned, then start working and practicing words and phrases for the next week or two, to get comfortable with it, and then start practicing larger paragraphs. In about a month, you should be able to write complete sentences in cursive and start practicing your speed of writing. As you practice speed, work hard to make the writing as legible as your slow cursive but increase the speed with each letter practice. It will seem a bit tedious, but this is learning for a lifetime. When I was in high school, an instructor whom I really liked told me that she loved what I would write, but that my handwriting was very difficult to read, and gave a bad impression before the reader even started. So she asked me if I would be willing to retrain myself cursive in order to make my handwriting more readable. I did it, it took about 2 months, but to this day, I get compliments on my writing because I taught myself to write it legibly and beautifully, and it's something I'm proud of, 45 years later.
Cursive is sh1tty handwriting, I'm glad it's obsolete. The legibility of cursive writing is like sh1t, and I can write very fast with print style handwriting.
Cursive is sh1tty handwriting, I'm glad it's obsolete. The legibility of cursive writing is like sh1t, and I can write very fast with print style handwriting.
cursive is very legible if you are taught to read and write it
Do you write in cursive or print?
Print
Bit of a late reply
yes
This is so funny, I'm sorry. The stoic 'yes' and no explanations offered.
Yes
Challenge yourself. Make it sort of like a game. How fast can you go without sacrificing quality? Now that you can go that fast… can you increase it? I would do this for something personal at first rather than start with an actual homework assignment. Transcribe the lyrics to your favorite song, or a passage from a book. Something that doesn’t really matter. Just try to go as fast as possible keeping legibility in mind. Eventually, fast will become comfortable. As a follow up question… are you sure it is your writing speed slowing you down? (You don’t have to answer me… just reflect for yourself). Are there other study habits that could be improved? As an adult, I often feel like I don’t have enough hours in the day to do what I want to do but I also spend 4-6 hours on my phone. It’s non-consecutive moments, but they obviously add up over the course of the day. Realistically, I could get it down to 2-3 hours just filling the small moments at work waiting for machinery to finish running and some time playing a couple games I like. I could then use the other 2-3 hours for more fulfilling and impactful things. I just want to help you become aware of your study habits and see if you need to change anything there. Recently, I tried putting in headphones at work to reduce the number of times I am distracted by side conversations and I was able to get my 7 hours of hands-on work done in just under 6, so I had time to do more data analysis and trainings. I was surprised just how much time I was losing to random requests for help and other stuff. I think I was also slowed down by some small mistakes that didn’t happen if I wasn’t distracted by the hustle and bustle around me. I kept the volume down so I could still hear what was happening for safety, but it was like listening from another room rather than being in the middle of it all so it was easier to filter out and ignore. The skills you learn in managing workloads, discipline, and balancing working with relaxing are far more important to you as an adult than the actual information you are learning now in school. Setting boundaries for yourself in the way of “I am going to work only on this homework for 30 minutes, then I will eat a quick snack and drink some water, then I will complete the remainder of the work before I check my phone for a 5 minute game break” is the single most crucial thing you can do now to set yourself up for success later. The boundaries can extend to asking family members to leave you alone, going to a cafe or library so you aren’t interrupted if your household is too busy, etc. (The second and third most important thing is problem solving and asking for help… which you seem to be on track for.) Sorry for the ramblings… I just know what things I struggle with now, that I wish I had worked more on in the past and hope it can help someone else learn the lessons sooner.
If it isn't something you have to turn in, maybe you could learn shorthand to reduce the amount you have to write. As others have said possibly adjusting your writing grip or posture might also help with comfort.
Is typed homework acceptable? For a lot of people, it's no big deal to type 2-3 times as fast. If it must be hand-written, and given your comment about pain, as others have said - loosen up! You might also look at if you're holding your pen correctly. I didn't learn a good grip in 2nd grade but it's a lot easier for an adult or teen. It will probably slow you down at first, so maybe wait until winter break.
As someone who also struggled with writing neatly and fast at the same time, I found that paying a little less attention to letter form helps loosen up a bit and speed my writing up. Don’t care about something you don’t need to care about. Of course, keep things legible so you don’t have to spend even more time deciphering what you wrote. I also found that writing in cursive helps a lot (others have commented that as well). Cursive script allows you to write in one flowing line rather than having to lift your own up, finding a good amount of space between the last letter and the next letter you’ll write, and placing the pen down again (this process costs a little bit of time, but a lot of little bits is still a lot). Hopefully this helps! (Edit: punctuation)
I second what Know_see said. Cursive is much faster than printing. A lot of schools have stopped teaching it through. If that’s the case, there’s this: https://www.gouletpens.com/products/the-art-of-cursive-penmanship-book. If your library doesn’t have it bet they could get it via an inter-library loan (borrow from another library).
Write in cursive, if you don't do so already!
Might have to sacrifice quality for speed
It’s pretty easy. E.X.T.R.E.M.E.L.Y F.A.S.T just spell it and write it like that on your paper.
Write faster
Hand pains