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I love shitting on Americans as much as anyone else but I went to school in Sweden and I also never managed to get proficient at cursive writing - it was always

I love shitting on Americans as much as anyone else but I went to school in Sweden and I also never managed to get proficient at cursive writing - it was always slower, more painful to the hand and far less legible than block letters to me. And my teachers really tried, one even gave me some special triangular pencil that was supposed to help your grip. Once I was out of grade school I never used it ever again. And now in 2022 I struggle to remember the last time I wrote anything by hand at all.

astura 4y ago
My schooling (in the US) went "all-in" on cursive - It was taught very early and all turned in assignments for all grades after learning cursive were required to be in cursive or you got a zero on the assignment. Yet, I have the exact same experience as you - "slower, more painful to the hand and far less legible than block letters" I suspect this is the most common outcome - which is why so few people write in cursive by choice. If it was strictly better we'd all keep using it when we didn't have to.