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> This technique is much faster than writing out capital letters, or typing letters as they would be written by a printer or printing press. If you forced your
by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4y ago
> This technique is much faster than writing out capital letters, or typing letters as they would be written by a printer or printing press.
If you forced yourself to write using the "printer font" 100% of the time (we literally call this "printing"), you'd get a lot faster at it. It won't ever be quite as fast as your loop writing / cursive, but the margin would narrow substantially.
- marvin 4y agoIt's very weird that I've heard Americans complain about cursive for 20 years, but I have never heard a Norwegian complain about loop writing. There must be additional context we're not discussing. I can't imagine being less than 25% slower and getting significantly faster tired even if I was practiced at writing in printer font -- the number of abrupt fine-motor muscle movements is a lot higher. That probably won't make a difference for someone who very rarely writes by hand, so it doesn't invalidate the point of the article per se, but the cultural difference is striking. And I take a lot of hand-written notes; all through university and regularly at work, for my own reference. Wouldn't make sense to switch. Someone elsewhere in the comments said that cursive has some very non-pragmatic design choices in it, that make it harder both to learn and read. Maybe that's the reason. I think our loop writing is pretty pragmatic. I can't recall anyone in class ever getting corrected on minutiae.