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> For whiteboards start out with using block letters only. It will slow you down in the beginning but not for long. I strongly dislike this advice. The slowing
by chrismorgan 2y ago
> For whiteboards start out with using block letters only. It will slow you down in the beginning but not for long.
I strongly dislike this advice. The slowing down is probably actually the feature here that works; as for the uppercase, it definitely hurts comprehension. Go lowercase, slow, and deliberately never joining any letters, for your beginning, and I think it will probably be better for all parties involved: reading and comprehension will be improved, you'll get at least as much improvement in your handwriting, probably more, and certainly in a more useful area.
- Propelloni 2y agoYou are right, it is mostly about the slowing down. Switching to the unfamiliar block lettering forces you to go slow. It's a trick, so that you do not have to be deliberate about writing speed but about lettering. In my experience the latter is easier than the former, but obviously YMMV. I don't know if uppercase hurts comprehension. I think, I have no problems whatsoever. But block letters are not all upper case anyway. You make them of different size to signal upper and lower case, i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_letters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_letters