The amount of times someone has told me “Oh, I have awful handwriting,” but it looks like they spent 12 hours and used a ruler to measure every stroke of the pen drives me nuts. When I pulled junior Vincent Nguyen out from his class, he told me his handwriting was “bad.” I proceeded to ask for his notebook, and I saw one of the most beautiful calligraphies yet.
“If it’s a class I care about, I’ll try to write neatly and as legible as possible, so I [can]
understand the material I wrote and go back to study,” Nguyen said. “Whenever I write neatly, it allows me to retrieve the information a lot better. Whenever I wrote notes too sloppily, I never retrieved the information or understood the concept [as well].”
Similar to Golshan and Matta, Nguyen believes handwriting can correlate to how productive a person is.
“People who tend to write more sloppily are more efficient in their time,” Nguyen said. “They want to be more productive. Writing [sloppily] allows them to work faster.”
Females generally have better handwriting, as Nguyen doesn’t know many males who can classify under “good handwriting.”
“Sometimes, people say I [have] a girl’s handwriting,” Nguyen said. “And my mom says that I’m wasting time writing neatly, and I should just get my work done. [But] my handwriting represents the time and effort I put into my work.”
