@Barney@tinamarie1974 You know that a lot of states don’t require schools to teach cursive anymore? And of course, just like everything, it’s become a political issue.
@Barney@tinamarie1974 I do too; I think it helps kids with brain development and connects them with what they’re writing. I believe kids need more literal hands-on learning in every aspect of their education.
Not just tablets and screens.
There been instances of younger people working on graduate level research who came across primary sources in cursive and had to pay to have somebody read it to them or transcribe it. Or something
Anyone 20 years older could’ve read the material with no difficulty
@Barney@f00l@Kyeh I believe it and it makes me SMH. No reason kids should not learn cursive. I dont understand why states/schools are eliminating it from curriculum
@Barney@f00l@Kidsandliz@Kyeh@tinamarie1974 Some schools around me stopped teaching cursive. The kids learn signature only. Maybe it will become a college course for history and other degrees that work with documents.
One part of my job requires me to witness signatures. When there are school age children, I don’t need them to sign but it is fun to ask if they want to write. Shock, excitement, panic - wide range of reactions.
#8, right handed. All you # 7 people are boring conformists who do it the way you were taught in kindergarten. The rest of us are individualists who show some flair, creativity and a willingness to buck the trend.
Variable. Usually 6, sometimes 7 or 8. Depends on where the prior stroke ended. If I’m making an X in a box, I generally don’t lift the pen, so it comes out as a 7-based backwards lowercase alpha.
Righty. 7 if writing in cursive, since it is probably connected to the letter before it. 8 if printing, and when I don’t lift the pen, like others, it looks like a sideways fish. I think monsters, or aliens, use 1-6.
@loolhandjoe - take a baby doll and do like above on your creation, gore it up a bit (although going from innocent to demented might add to the creepy factor) except make the face hinged and put the thing in a frame with maybe the eyeballs as mirrors that show through both sets of differently shaped eyes…
I guess I’m starting to see it’s always a one strike reset but. Still we read left to right top to bottom. I maintain 5. Or maybe 7 if you don’t reset your line.
Here is why 5 is right and 7 is a monster. Assume there are 5 check boxes in a row. Both start at top left. Both end at bottom right. Both need one stroke to cross.
5 goes across the bottom then bottom left to top right. It is ready to restart the next check box.
7 goes one stoke up then top right to bottom left. Then must reset up once and over twice. To get to where 5 ended. What are you people doing?
@unksol That’s definitely more efficient. I don’t know why we were taught to do it the 7 way, but we were.
There is a kind of satisfying feeling to the emphatic “slash/slash” of two downward strokes, somehow.
@chienfou@Kyeh@tinamarie1974
A horizontal row of check boxes would start top left. Because of the way we read English. Unless you just check weird. Now we are limited to 5/7.
They both start with one move top left to bottom right.
Now you can go straight horizontal or vertical to reset to finish the cross.
If you go horizontal, right to left, to finish your cross from bottom left to right top you are set up to to restart the next checkbox starting again at top left.
That being said… If it was a vertical row of check boxes. Going verical would reset you to the left.
I think I default horizontal but would not be surprised if I did it horizontal on a form that required it.
@chienfou@Kyeh@tinamarie1974would not be surprised if I did it vertical on a form that required it
Which makes Tina and kyeh correct.
No idea what I did on my last NICS… You have to skim Incase they change the form. Can’t just X it all.
@chienfou I’m pretty sure I also use both 7and 8. But all the ones going up seem awkward af. Honestly I was afraid I’d see one that was a v with an upside down v under it.
The fastest and most efficient way to do any of this exes number check boxes whatever letters anything is to use whatever happens you have formed so that you can do it without thinking about it
7 agree with you, do these monsters walk among us?
@Ignorant
I’m an 8.
@Barney I knew there was something off about you.
@Ignorant Aw, gee, that’s the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me.
@Barney
/giphy monster
#8
I’m left handed. Maybe that is why. I’ve also been told I make checks backwards
@ironcheftoni
/giphy monster
@ironcheftoni I’m also left-handed, but I’m a 7.
@ironcheftoni I am right handed and make it the same way you do.
@Kidsandliz
/giphy monster
@ironcheftoni I use method #8 and I’m normal-dexterous (i.e., right-handed)
And also a monster.
@macromeh
/giphy monster
@shahnm That giphy had me laughing so hard my eye was watering!
7, but it follows proper cursive execution.
@tinamarie1974 I was absent the day they taught us how to make an X.
@Barney your teacher didn’t teach you when you came back?
/giphy shocked
@tinamarie1974 I was out with the measles and missed both X and Y. When I came back the class was on Z. (Cursive Z’s are really hard.)
Yep, my cursive writing is a little strange.
And now that I think about it, so is my printing.
@Barney z’s were really tough now that I think about it!!!
@Barney @tinamarie1974 You know that a lot of states don’t require schools to teach cursive anymore? And of course, just like everything, it’s become a political issue.
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 Yep, cursive is becoming a lost art and I find that sad.
@Barney @tinamarie1974 I do too; I think it helps kids with brain development and connects them with what they’re writing. I believe kids need more literal hands-on learning in every aspect of their education.
Not just tablets and screens.
@Barney @Kyeh @tinamarie1974
There been instances of younger people working on graduate level research who came across primary sources in cursive and had to pay to have somebody read it to them or transcribe it. Or something
Anyone 20 years older could’ve read the material with no difficulty
@Barney @f00l @Kyeh I believe it and it makes me SMH. No reason kids should not learn cursive. I dont understand why states/schools are eliminating it from curriculum
@Barney @f00l @Kyeh @tinamarie1974 Not to mention when they are supposed to sign something the assumption is they aren’t printing it.
@Barney @f00l @Kidsandliz @Kyeh oh I didn’t even think of THAT!!!
So when my great grandpa entered the US (Ellis Island) his paperwork is signed with his “mark” or an “X”. Maybe the kiddos will be doing that???
@Barney @f00l @Kidsandliz @Kyeh @tinamarie1974 Some schools around me stopped teaching cursive. The kids learn signature only. Maybe it will become a college course for history and other degrees that work with documents.
One part of my job requires me to witness signatures. When there are school age children, I don’t need them to sign but it is fun to ask if they want to write. Shock, excitement, panic - wide range of reactions.
7, fuckers.
xxxxxxx
/giphy 7x
I enjoy being unique, but, damnit, I’m a 7.
7 for me too.
7 obviously but I want to be a monster
/8ball Can I be a monster?
It is certain
7 for the win over here
8, and sometimes I don’t even lift the pen.
It sometimes looks like an “alpha”, or the old secret fish symbol. I don’t even care.
@G1
/giphy monster
@G1 #8 and when I am in a hurry sometimes mine looks like an alpha or a fish too.
@Kidsandliz
/giphy monster
I’m an 8, which is a more evolved state compared to those whose’s X’s are ill-formed.
@Jackinga
/giphy monster
Who the hell is #1-4???
@haydesigner
/giphy monsters
Also an 8. 8 is great.
@btwonder
/giphy monster
8 also lol
@nwdpuppy
/giphy monster
@nwdpuppy @shahnm Now there’s a project for halloween!
@nwdpuppy @phendrick @shahnm I had to go find the source for this, it’s impressive without the monster too:
@djslack @nwdpuppy @phendrick @shahnm That is a seriously strong wind!!
I usually just show my super clingy side…
Divorce court?
@chienfou
/giphy rim shot
Thought about it in my head. Wrote it mentally several times and settled on 5. Actually wrote it on paper and definitely 7.
I turned into an 8 in college. It helped me more quickly move on to the next letter while taking notes.
@zhicks1987 right? If you’re not ending your stroke in the best position to begin another, what are you doing with your life?
@btwonder @zhicks1987
Wasting it.
That’s what I always say. Ask anybody.
@zhicks1987
/giphy monster
#8 and right handed
@callow That’s me too. I didn’t know there were any other ways.
@callow
/giphy monster
@Nate311
/giphy sesame Street the count
monster
#8, right handed. All you # 7 people are boring conformists who do it the way you were taught in kindergarten. The rest of us are individualists who show some flair, creativity and a willingness to buck the trend.
https://www.classace.io/learn/handwriting/2ndgrade/capital-and-lowercase-x-review
@Kidsandliz
/giphy monster
Old-style draftsmen might do it any of those ways. I knew one who could accurately letter a drawing upside down. His work was impressive.
Now, it’s mostly a lost art.
@werehatrack In junior high and high school I was bored a lot so practiced writing in mirror writing to entertain myself. Got rather good at it.
@Kidsandliz @werehatrack
I can do it too!
Variable. Usually 6, sometimes 7 or 8. Depends on where the prior stroke ended. If I’m making an X in a box, I generally don’t lift the pen, so it comes out as a 7-based backwards lowercase alpha.
@werehatrack
/giphy sometimes monster
Another right-handed 7 here.
5 looks like it has some efficiency
@romellex
/giphy monster
I am a Right handed one that Does #8. everyone else is Weird!
@mycya4me
/giphy monster
@mycya4me Hmm, sounds like something a monster would say…
@macromeh Nope… No Monster, but Very Nerdy, Geeky guy would say!
Right-handed and 8.
/giphy monsterless
@kc5rbq
/giphy monster
@shahnm Farout, man!
Righty. 7 if writing in cursive, since it is probably connected to the letter before it. 8 if printing, and when I don’t lift the pen, like others, it looks like a sideways fish. I think monsters, or aliens, use 1-6.
@caramelarrow
/giphy alien
@loolhandjoe - take a baby doll and do like above on your creation, gore it up a bit (although going from innocent to demented might add to the creepy factor) except make the face hinged and put the thing in a frame with maybe the eyeballs as mirrors that show through both sets of differently shaped eyes…
7 but I like 3 and 4 so I’m gonna start doing it that way from now on.
@Star2236
/giphy aspirational monster
It’s a 5. You seven people reset to the top instead of one smooth motion? Why?
@unksol Good question, actually.
I guess I’m starting to see it’s always a one strike reset but. Still we read left to right top to bottom. I maintain 5. Or maybe 7 if you don’t reset your line.
@unksol
/giphy monster
Here is why 5 is right and 7 is a monster. Assume there are 5 check boxes in a row. Both start at top left. Both end at bottom right. Both need one stroke to cross.
5 goes across the bottom then bottom left to top right. It is ready to restart the next check box.
7 goes one stoke up then top right to bottom left. Then must reset up once and over twice. To get to where 5 ended. What are you people doing?
@unksol too much logic, you must be a robot
@unksol That’s definitely more efficient. I don’t know why we were taught to do it the 7 way, but we were.
There is a kind of satisfying feeling to the emphatic “slash/slash” of two downward strokes, somehow.
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 maybe they wanted you to think before you checked?
Or wanted you to end at the bottom and go vertical not horizontal. It’s rare you go down not right though
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 well depending on the form… Legal ones are yes/no vertical… Hmmm is there a byisis in legal forms and check boxes…
@unksol
/giphy monster
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 @unksol
WTAF? 5 check boxes, Both start at top left? Both end at bottom right
@chienfou @Kyeh @tinamarie1974
A horizontal row of check boxes would start top left. Because of the way we read English. Unless you just check weird. Now we are limited to 5/7.
They both start with one move top left to bottom right.
Now you can go straight horizontal or vertical to reset to finish the cross.
If you go horizontal, right to left, to finish your cross from bottom left to right top you are set up to to restart the next checkbox starting again at top left.
That being said… If it was a vertical row of check boxes. Going verical would reset you to the left.
I think I default horizontal but would not be surprised if I did it horizontal on a form that required it.
@chienfou @Kyeh @tinamarie1974 would not be surprised if I did it vertical on a form that required it
Which makes Tina and kyeh correct.
No idea what I did on my last NICS… You have to skim Incase they change the form. Can’t just X it all.
I vary between 7 and 8. But then again, my handwriting sux.
@chienfou I’m pretty sure I also use both 7and 8. But all the ones going up seem awkward af. Honestly I was afraid I’d see one that was a v with an upside down v under it.
@chienfou @remo28
/giphy fickle monsters
I’m a 7, but when I’m feeling particularly jaunty, I’m a 6.
@lisagd
/giphy jaunty monster
The fastest and most efficient way to do any of this exes number check boxes whatever letters anything is to use whatever happens you have formed so that you can do it without thinking about it
Bonus points if it’s illegible
/giphy illegible
@f00l
/giphy efficient monster