Is it normal to make weird handwriting mistakes?

I usually write in cursive and I tend to make a lot of mistakes, even when I'm copying something directly. My hand just juts upward like I'm going into a T when I'm about to write an S (for example. It can be anything.)

I also end up making too many humps on my Ms and Ns and mashing my letters together. It's like no matter how slowly I write, my mind is going faster than my hand.

I've already gotten points taken off for my mistakes and I always have white out (1-2 mistakes a paragraph, which is very noticeable) on every page of my homework. Is this normal?

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  • diddlyo

    "It's like no matter how slowly I write, my mind is going faster than my hand. "

    same here! i love writing in pen though. i think it's beautiful when i scribble out a mistake :']

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  • mattsaballer5

    Kindergarten kids have better handwriting than me lol

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  • XxDemonicaxX

    Same here for like all of it lol

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  • Avant-Garde

    My writing style is a mixture of cursive, print, lowercase and uppercase. I make mistakes. Sometimes, I'll read something I wrote and start wondering what hell I just wrote, then I'll try to correct it. I made allot of mistakes when I was learning how to write "cursive" a bit traumatic.... I write fairly fast so, things get easily jumbled up:) There are some letters, that I can't remember how to write in cursive.

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  • squirrelgirl

    I don't write in cursive, but my handwriting's atrocious. My a's look like u's, my m's look like n's, and my t's and f's are practically identical, which is to say that they both look like floating L's.

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  • 1marcelfilms

    My a looks like an c or u and my b looks like |-/

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  • malkiot

    Hmm... I suggest slowing down your mind ^^.

    It happens to everyone, writing one sentence but already formulating the next sentence... stopping halfway and writing a new one. Very normal.

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  • Angel_in_a_Glass_Dress

    just keep practicing. write slowly.

    or do what i did and give up on cursive. i write military style block letters these days... all in caps, and when I really want to capitalize a word i make the first letter bigger.

    =)

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  • j1337

    Don't use pen. My English teacher makes us write essays in class that he'll only grade if they're in pen... He doesn't like all my cross outs but that's what he gets :p

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