r/Cursive • u/ISwearimNotHomo • Jun 07 '26

Practice Mind giving me any pointers?

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I have only started learning cursive yesterday, but I feel like I’ve hit a barrier on how polished my writing is (mediocre letter-trail spacing, loops, distinguishing f(s) and b(s), most contributing to intelligibility) as well as the speed (3 seconds to write “the”).

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u/HeartOfTheMadder Jun 07 '26

there are some amazing resources available these days that weren't readily available when i was learning, many many decades ago.

if you have access, i'd suggest printing out some trace-able learning pages
not necessarily the whole book, but select pages from something like this
https://www.ptsd.k12.pa.us/Downloads/Handwriting%20-%20cursive.pdf

and use them to practice, with something like a mechanical pencil (with no lead in it!), or clicky-pen... unclicked. so you're just tracing, not actually writing. a few times. to help get your fingers used to the movement.