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

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:

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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.

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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

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I write my 5's like the japanese hiragana "chi"
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I was speaking idiomatically.

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*

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Originally Posted by Muzza

I've just recently noticed that I write my 7's with a small horizontal line through them

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.
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Originally Posted by Icyblackflame

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

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.

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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.

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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'.

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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.

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I write my capital A's like this:

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

I was speaking idiomatically.

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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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