I’m gonna say from ages 8 to 18 for the sake of fairness here. I understand girls improving faster at first, but even in high school I remember so many guys who could not write legibly all the way through high school. Why is that and is there a way thing could be countered properly? I feel like if the answer was “practice” then 10 years of writing essays in school should do the trick.
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Our balls really throw off the balance in our wrists. Lol no, people in general have bad handwriting due to physical difficulties, and/or lack of practice. If the guys you know have bad handwriting, it’s probably because they didn’t care to practice and improve
Edit: to add, repetition isn’t the same as practice. Just doing written essays only helps one improve if they are trying to improve otherwise it just locks in bad habits
Cause practicing wrong 1000 times doesn’t make you better.
We don’t do perfect practice. We drop that at age 6-10
Practice sounds like just writing a lot, but if you arent practicing legible writing your writing won’t magically become more legible, you’ll just write illegibly faster.
Personally, I find with a ballpoint pen my handwriting is terrible. With a smoother pen, my handwriting is a lot better. Maybe it depends on the amount of time they have to write something and the thing theyre writing with
I can’t speak for all guys, but the extra time it takes to make my handwriting look good isn’t worth it all. I don’t care how pretty it looks, I just need to be able to read it.
And pretty writing doesn’t only take time to practice. It takes way longer to execute even if you’re able.
It’s how we’re built. When we’re young boys have not so good fine motor control but better gross motor control than girls. This is why girls are typically better at writing, dancing, arts and crafts whereas boys will be able to run faster or throw and catch balls better than girls at a young age.
We tend to focus on getting better at the things we’re already good at as well.
While men typically have greater physical strength, women have better fine motor skills.
I’ve seen this in welding shops, machine shops, and even at the race track where there are tasks that require precision hand movements, and women seem to be more natural with it.
It’s a social thing. Girls are encouraged to be neater and prettier even in writing, people police boys handwriting less.
Look back 100 years or more with the beautiful penmanship back then. Both men and women are capable of writing beautifully, there’s nothing genetic that says men can’t write neatly.
Simple answer is most guys don’t care if they have neat handwriting or not. Most girls do care and they work on making their writing as fancy as possible with little hearts on top of the i’s or big swirly letters etc.
How many times have you seen a guy write full pages of his name on a scrape piece of paper trying to improve their signature vs girls?
In the 90’s when I was in school with severe dyslexia they decided not to teach me cursive and just get me started on typing skills. So I never developed my hand writing skills. My brothers alway had way better writing than me.
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