Bad handwriting and intelligence

Consider the following sequence of handwritten digits: Most people effortlessly recognize those digits as

December 30, at Maybe you should let them read this post!

Reply Jen September 9, at 3: However, I am currently a successful professional artist. To me, drawing and writing are like using two different parts of the brain. If I treat words like a picture I can write beautifully but it takes a very long time to write. My handwriting became a source of agony in college, when I would have to immediately type all of my notes after class so that I could read them later.

However, that proved to be a valuable habit as it allowed me to retain the information by having to transcribe it and interpret the meaning of my own scribbles. Reply Talal September 10, at 9: My Arabic is actually worse, but I got no complaints in school. Reply Jenny September 12, at 5: Reply September 12, at Your story is rather different from the usual complaints about unreadable handwriting.

How interesting that you find it difficult to read individualized handwriting. Maybe you should ask the judges to type- or at least to print!

Speed is a very important factor while analysing handwriting because it relates to intelligence and spontaneity of thought. In the forward moving handwriting (from left to right), we figure out how the writer approaches the world: passionately, spontaneously, or hastily, . Overview Beginner Handwriting program for ages 5½+ – Teaches proper letter formation and spacing. – Increases writing speed and legibility by practicing the “writing patterns” that make up all 26 letters in the English alphabet. Aug 06,  · high intelligence is not equal to good handwriting, i know at least two people who are very intelligent but have a very bad handwriting. And i also know people having good handwriting, but are not so intelligent,Status: Resolved.

There are so many other reasons that could range from carelessness to innovative ability or creativity. The trick is to find out which one applies to your own handwriting! Sandra December 31, at It is almost as if I draw my words instead of writing them, which causes my handwriting to go everywhere and end up looking crazy.

Reply Ugly Handwriting and what it says about you …: It peaked at about ten years of age, and gradually deteriorated as I went through high school, sixth form and university, as classes became more intense. Lecture notes had to be scribbled faster and faster, so aesthetics were sacrificed for speed and now ten years after graduating my handwriting is still a dreadful, inconsistent mess.

Good thing he let me to rewrite it. Whenever my boyfriend reads my love letters his eyebrows always cross just trying to understand what is written.

Everyone is telling me I should have taken a medical course and be a doctor because it fits with my handwriting. But even though they are having a hard time reading my handwriting they still take effort to read my comics.Bad handwriting does not necessarily reflect intelligence.

Intelligence to be reflected through writing would require speed of writing, readable writing which may not be beautiful but very much legible. The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children is referred to as the WISC.

(No, not that type of whisk!) The WISC consists of a series of short sub tests that are used to assess cognitive ability.

What is intelligence?

In human biology, handedness is a better, faster, or more precise performance or individual preference for use of a hand, known as the dominant hand; the less capable or less preferred hand is called the non-dominant hand.

Men are somewhat more likely to express a strongly dominant left hand than women. It is estimated that between 70 and 95 percent of the world's population is right-handed.

I'd be inclined to think that Doctors' bad handwriting is more of a product of years of fast note taking at lectures. Add message | Report. So IME there isn't a link between handwriting and intelligence.

Add message | Report. Pawslikepaddington Tue Apr No way. My handwriting is illegible, and I am intelligent. People who write rounded letters are more creative and artistic while pointed letters are a sign of aggression or intelligence.

Connected letters mean the writer is logical. Handwriting with. Messy handwriting does not necessarily suggest high intelligence. Yet neither does messiness mean the writer has “low intelligence”.

“Messy” handwriting for the non-graphologist may intuitively signal a personality that is confused, has shallow thinking, is the result of the writer being rushed beyond her/his skills, is allergic to.