I just realized today that I can't write cursive anymore. I have completely forgotten save for signing my name. I tried to write out a grocery list in cursive just for the heck of it and it looks like a six year old scribbled it (maybe worse). Some letters I actually had to stop and think how to do. Its a bit sad given all the time elementary school teachers spent trying to force me to do it (and I was never any good at it). Printing started for me in high school when my Freshman English teacher told me to print since she couldn't read my handwriting.

How are the rest of you at it? Do they even teach cursive/handwriting in school now? "Penmanship" was kind of a big deal back in the 70s - as was typing. That's one thing I can still do by touch pretty well (about 60-70 WPM). I hear typing classes are going by the wayside in most high schools now too. I guess the generation of printing and hunt-and-peck "keyboarding" is in full swing!

I was so bad at it in elementary school that my teachers exempted me from having to turn in my homework in cursive. I have not improved since then.

EDIT: Being a lefty was probably part of the problem. Cursive was not designed with us in mind.

I used to but can't anymore. Don't even know half the letters. I tried learning again using a tracing app on my tablet but when I tried actually writing something it didn't flow, took longer than printing, and was barely legible. I have very legible print writing and it's easier so I'm just gonna stick to it, even though well done cursive is sixy as [censored].

What's the point of it anyway? I was the only one able to desipher my cursive-writing, so might as well try to make it a bit clearer for everyone involved.

I don't even write my signature with cursive. I use viking-rune type stuff instead.

Never learned cursive and never liked it. Why write in a manner that specifically makes it harder to recognize each letter after all?

Writing should be about http://i-cdn.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/kitchen/2008_02_14-Steak-valentines-day.jpg, not about http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PONZmGCC0cI/S-F4WrjkbcI/AAAAAAAACbg/TIXs9AW4Xo4/s1600/okinawa+289.JPG.

Only thing I write with cursive is my name. Though i've heard some say my cursive writing is just bad.

Mostly do it as a form of protection when i'm signing papers for CC transactions.

I can cursive write, it just looks terrible. The only thing I can do is my name and that looks like a 2 year old scribble poop :/