Do you write your numbers/letters different to other people?
 

I've just recently noticed that I write my 7's with a small horizontal line through them, I only noticed when somebody pointed it out, and I was quite shocked. No one I know do their 7's like that - maybe you write your numbers or letters differently? If so, discuss; I'm interested to hear some other peculiar writing "techniques", if you will.

I have chicken scratch handwriting. Sometimes I will write notes where they will change between print and cursive. Also, there are certain letters that I always write in upper case regardless of whether or not it is gramatically correct.

You mean like this?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...u/Kairyu_7.png
If so, that's how I write my 7's. I'm not sure how I picked that up, I just write it that way to prevent confusion of it resembling the number one. Plus if poeple have seen my handwriting before you probably notice how font-like it appears to be. I think Roph tried to make it into a font but it didn't work =/.

I write my b's in two separate strokes between which I lift the pencil, unlike most people. I write the the vertical line first followed by the curve. I picked up this habit from writing a lot of flat signs in music theory. I also write my d's the same way, except the curve comes before the line.

I also write my f's with a downward-sloping line rather than a curve at the top. If my other computer weren't busted I'd scan it to show you what I mean.

Yup, that's the one. I like writing my 7's like that so I'm not gonna stop. It's strange how I started though because my 1's and 7's (even without the line) are noticably different (I don't put a top or bottom on my ones, so sometimes they can be confused with a lower case L [l], much like my capital i's, which do not have a bottom and top either :))

I start my 3's and 5's from the bottom instead of the top. While it seems natural to me, nearly everyone who's seen me write those numbers has found it shocking.

I also write my sevens like that, because I learned the hard way in a math test many moons ago. As well, I write my "f"s like the function f.

f

...like so.

I study mathematics and I write 7's like this as well so as not to confuse it with 1 (or any other number) when things get real messy.

I sometimes write 'a' like as in through print and not the o with a line at the right side. I know most people do the simple one.

I write my 8's alternating between the "two circle" method, and the "continuous line" method after my friend asked me to write down an "8" just to see how I write it.

My "a"s when printing, I now write as: "a" in typewriter style, after I took linguistics, since script "a" is different the other "a".

I also make sure mty "1"s have the slant at the top and the base at the bottom, to distinguish form "l".

I write certain words without lifting my pen even if my writing is typically printed. I didn't notice it until one of my classmates in high school pointed it out. I also write the number 5 in one stroke rather than adding the top horizontal line last like others seem to commonly do.

I write really fast, so it appears like chickenscratch. It also lends some interesting properties in my handwriting, such as the combination of several letters in a single stroke giving it a pseudo-cursive appearance, lower-case p appearing like a shepherd's staff, lower-case g and y looking like eachother, lower-case a and u looking like eachother, exagerrated serifs on upper-case D and P, lower-case h looking like lower-case l in the word "the", and so on . . .

I also cross my 7s.

I noticed last year that I write my neatest in Math (of all classes!) and the worst in science classes. It's strange. My handwriting is totally different from one to the other. In science, it's basically chicken scratch and sometimes I have a hard time making it out, but the math version is very neat and easy to read.

so do I. My friends often tell me my writing is worse than grass code. But I always do my best not to screw and make it legible up on writing examination.

On the contrary, I always write my neatest (save for comprehension questions, they are t3h suck). I don't write cursive, I just print. Too much effort in learning to connect different letters in my opinion, and it looks very messy when you're just learning =/

I write my 8s with two circles. First draw top circle, then bottom circle.

I picked up that habit when I had a tutor in 8th grade who would write like that. She did her lessons writing upside down on the a piece of paper and I just noticed she always drew her 8s like that.

My handwriting is usually a mix between cursive and normal print. I tend to connect letters--namely whatever comes after s, f, t, y, g, p, and b-- as I'm going along. These are also letters that I tend to write in cursive as long as they're in the middle of a word, with the exception of s and f, which I always have in cursive at the beginning of a word. However, s isn't always cursive within a word. Additionaly, I write a capital E like a backward 3.

I also ocassionally write my f like this:
http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/7932/letterzq1.jpg
I fail at mice!

Of course, I don't always do all of this, but I'm just stating a general pattern.

While my normal handwriting is pretty hard to read, my neat writing is surprisingly clear.

I always place a slash through my zeroes, so as to differentiate them from the letter O.

But my handwriting is filled with little serifs and fluorishes. In my line, the ability to have clean printing with a unique look is a huge boon, and I've spent the last ten years practicing it.

I've noticed that the top, ending strokes to my numeral 8's tend to be abnormally long, like little whips flying off the top loop. I think it looks cool but it probably means something.

my handwriting is definitely.. unique.

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/4...writingof4.gif

or.. sort of. writing with a mouse is a little difficult ._.
i always get, "when did you start writing like that?" it started in elementary school, adding little flourishes to my letters when i printed. this was very frowned upon by all of my teachers, so the habit only lasted from second to fourth grade, before they forced me out of it. i kept the textbook style of printing for the rest of elementary school, but as soon as i got to seventh grade, my handwriting kind of exploded into what it is now. i used to cross my s's. but i got really tired of people thinking they were f's. i do still cross my z's, though.

the general rule seems to be that peers love it, instructors hate it.

I put slashes through my 7s and 0s, and I write my 1s as they are typed (with the top and bottom). I also cross my Zs, so they don't get confused with twos.
My twos would be hard to mistake, though, because I do them with a curly-cue at the bottom (it's the same way my mom writes hers).

IN THE BEGINNING I used to write 7's without any slashes or serifs, the "normal" way. I'm not sure why but I eventually started adding a vertical serif. This proved to be rather illegible and ugly, so I eventually started just writing 7's with the slash in the middle. It's become a habit that's hard to shake, though I don't really know why I ever started writing them differently.

In terms of the alphabet, there was a phase when I used to write lowercase A's as they appear in most computer fonts, with the little hook on top. I eventually decided that I didn't like the way that looked, so I've since returned to the 'usual' way.

Also, most people only take notice of the way I write, not the what I write. It seems that I hold my pencil in a "bad" grip, with the thumb kind of pushing against my pointer finger's knuckle/nail. My dad in partiuclar enjoys telling me that my grip is terrible, but I can't really write the 'proper' way. It just looks ugly. :(

My handwriting is nearly illegible. But that's okay, since my main interest is mathematics (although I do fear that my philosophy paper will get a rubbish grade because of this xD).
My numbers are usually fine. My 2s and zs can look similar, but I cross my zs.
My 'f's look really weird. The top never comes out.
My us, ws and vs are easily confused also. This doesn't help when you're doing mechanics. Apparently my xs look quite similar to us sometimes too. Which doesn't help when you're doing integration or something by substitution. du/dx ends up looking like du/du ><;;

I hate my hand writing.

My handwriting is the bane of every lecturer.

They'd come, and look at me in the eye.

'You, need to change your handwriting.'

Bleh~

I write my "a"'s as shown on a keyboard, whereas everyone else I know writes them simplified. I also do a lot of fancy looping even when I'm not joining my handwriting up. Overall my handwriting is very diverse to other people's simply because it is so small and neat (as I have been told on far too many occasions). I was told before my exams I had to try and change it in case the examiners couldn't make out the words. I don't think it's that bad though =/

Example:
http://i5.tinypic.com/20q1hfb.jpg

It seems I alternate how I write numbers and letters every few years. When I was real little, I used to write "a" as an "o" with a "c" attached. I used to get back spelling tests with words marked wrong, then the mark scribbled out with a checkmark, and my "a" circled. Then I started writing it as an "o" with the little slant off the side. But at one point my handwriting was getting so bad, that I sometimes couldn't tell the difference between "a", "u", "n", "s", and "y". So I started writing "a" as seen in type. But for whatever reaslon, I dropped it after a year and now I'm back to the simple slant. For a while I also used to write my lower-case "f" with a stroke only on the right side, but since I also have a habbit of angling the top instead of curving it, it was too easy to confuse with the upper-case version.

Other letters I've changed over time are "y", which I do in one stroke, with an inverse curve underneath. I used to write "r" in a single up-right stroke, but now I write it more like a "v" (and sometimes confuse it with one). And a bunch of others. I'll bet in a few more years I'll be writing characters differently yet again.

:( Failure. I included my (Macromedia Fontogropher) source files as well as an incomplete TTF (Capitals A through R, I think it is).

As far as I know, the only thing I've noticed about how I write compared to others is that I write my exclamation points from the bottom up and I write my O's starting from the bottom going clockwise like this:

I cross my zeroes. It's a holdover from when I worked for a warehouse and we had to do inventory. The codes that identified items had letters as well as numbers, so we had to distinguish between O and 0, hence the crossing of the zeroes.

It looks okay to me and it serves a purpose, so I haven't tried to break the habit.

I also do the crossed/seriffed 7s. I think we call it the "french 7" around here. I think it also serves a useful purpose - if you're writing very fast, you can still tell your 7s apart from your 1s.

Well by the sounds of this thread so far I guess the main reason of writing 7's with a line is to be able to easily tell them apart from 1's. Interesting - whenever anyone asks me why I do my 7's like that, that's what I'll say :)

I write my 5's like the japanese hiragana "chi"
(this has nothing to do with my chobits obesssion...)

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/5975/chitt1.gif

I have people telling me that my writing really sucks, to it's really pretty... I guess it kinda depends on if I'm making an effort to write neat or not, but my writing's usually like chickenscratch. A mix of printing and cursive.

Here's a question though, how do people write capital "W"s? MIne are all fat, kinda like "UU" but they're actually wider at the bottom than on top... I hate my w's most of all. That sucks, 'cause my last name starts with W. *sigh*

I'm not sure, but isn't that how German's write the number one? Sorry if I'm wrong...

Something strange...I write my numbers the right way (well, the boring way), which is kind of strange. Everyone else I know uses this curvy or bubbly-type font. Heh, when I write like that, it's illegible, lol.
-Icy

From my experience, many people in Germany write their ones like most people write a seven here, as in quite similar to "7", and do sevens with a horizontal line through the center.

I happen to unintentionally capitalize some letters as well....the ones I capitalize the most are 'b' and 'd'. I've done it since I was little and I used to get b's mixed up with d's due to my dyslexia. So I decided on my own that I would write them in capitals so I could tell the difference. Needless to say I kind of held on to that.

I also write 2s with the looped tail. I picked that up from my mom...I used to write them normally but some how it turned into that...the same goes for 8 where I write it like an infinity symbol that's standing up.

Most of my letters are done with one stroke, and are flowy if they naturally feel flow, and with a loop if able. Some though are very harsh flat straight lines. Then theres thouse between. However, the smaller I write, the less flowy and more strokes I use. I write rather small generally, and although my hand writing is quite destinguished from one another and legible, the fllowy letters and the small size give people alot of trouble.

I also write the type-writer styled a.

College ruled; I write 1-2 lines per 'line'.
Wide ruled; I write 2-3 lines per 'line'.

I cross my sevens. Always have done and I've no idea why. I also write my capital Es like a crossed C, in other words using a curve for the top and bottom bars and the upright.

And yes, that is my handwriting in my sig and journal banner.

I write my capital A's like this:

http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/341/eafka1.png

Capitals E, A, F. Also I'm a right-hander but my writing slants left. That's it.

There was a time in my early teens where I used to wrote the capital A as a full triangle. Then it changed it to an incomplete triangle by the base. I'd post my handwriting but I'm too tired to scan anything.

I write my 1s and 0s differently depending on the situation. When just "regularly" writing, my '1' is just a line, like '|' and a '0' as it is in this face. But when I'm filling in grids or checks or forms or some important document, I'll distinguish them putting the extra crap on the '1' like here, and a slash through the 0s.

Since I started college and taken many math and stat courses, I was practically forced to cross my 7's and z's. Crossing z's I understand, it can be confused with 2 (I don't loop 2's). Not to mention learning the Greek alphabet from scratch, and then having different profs use different ways of writing them. I've eventually caught on to my own style with Greek letters. Regarding crossing 0's, I can't do that without the ultimate confusion of theta.

i chicken-scratch. i'm the only person other than my teachers who can read my hand writing:biggrin:

Well this seven described at the beginning isn't special here. Everyone writes a 7 like this here where I live.
But my handwriting is different to the handwriting of most people because my letters are sloped to the left. Noone I know writes this way.
And I write my 1s just with a | which is very uncommon in Germany.

The tails on my 'y's are more curvy and the tails on my lower case 'G's are curled alot. At least I am not like those bubbly girls that dot their 'I's with little hearts.