Do left-handers have worse handwriting?

[Anonymous]

My father was lefthanded and in Asia they made him write with his righthand. DD is left-handed and she has bad handwriting. She is still young yet.

[Anonymous]

No. I have amazingly good handwriting while the other four right handlers in my house have arely legible handwriting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My father was lefthanded and in Asia they made him write with his righthand. DD is left-handed and she has bad handwriting. She is still young yet.

My husband and daughter are wrong handed. Their handwriting is fine, not perfect, but nice enough. My sister has the handwriting of a five year old. She is right handed, with no visable disabilities, other than being very bitchy. Seriously it is the worst handwriting I have seen for a woman.

[Anonymous]

I have very lovely handwriting and I'm left-handed. My sister was forcibly converted when she was young, and she actually has nice handwriting as well. I don't think handedness has anything to do with it.

[Anonymous]

I'm a lefty. The stereotype is that lefties have bad handwriting, but I'm sure there are lefties with good handwriting (and there are plenty of righties with atrocious handwriting). My handwriting is not very good - but part of that is due to an injury/surgery.

Writing as a lefty can be a pain - especially in binders, notebooks, on whiteboards/chalkboards, with some types of pens, etc. I find myself lifting my hand awkwardly at times, which definitely does not help my handwriting.

[Anonymous]

In my experience, they do. Of course, there is no universal, but there's a lot of lefthandedness in my family, and those people tend to have worse handwriting.

[Anonymous]

I'm a lefty as well. I don't think lefties have bad handwriting, but with binders or writing with ink, it might take longer to figure out how to work around being "wrong" handed. I spend more of my first school years with my left hand covered in ink because I dragged my hand through my already written work. It took me a while to figure out how to do it and my parents were no help as they were right handed. I now have my paper laying sideways.

Give her some pointers if you can, otherwise she'll figure out her technic to good handwriting...just a little later than right handers.

[Anonymous]

I am a lefty with really nice handwriting!

[Anonymous]

Nobody is going to have nice handwriting anymore because they don't spend any time on it at school.

[Anonymous]

I am always surprised when i hear this question. I'm lefty and have several lefties in my family and have also known several throughout life. Without exception we all have excellent writing...far better than the majority of right handers I've known. Some of it has to do with fine motor coordination...something needed regardless of your dominant hand, part of it is the type of ink used...some dries quickly and some smears, also notebooks can be a real pain but you learn to deal with it. Left handed people really are living in a right handed world...nearly everything is set up for right handers. Imagine if you had to do half the things you do left handed whether you wanted to or not...you'd learn to adapt but it takes time.

[Anonymous]

Not exactly a huge sample size, but based on my house (older righty and younger lefty), lefties have better handwriting than righties. Adults were excluded from this "study" on the basis that the only thing you could conclude from the two righty adults is that DH should have been a doctor and if my handwriting turns into any more of a scrawl even I will not be able to read it!

[Anonymous]

The stereotype is based on L handed forced to write with the R hand.

[Anonymous]

Mine is awful. Sometimes I can't read my own work related notes or grocery lists. Don't know if it's because I am a lefty though.

[Anonymous]

Some leftys have better handwriting than some rightys but on average leftys have worse hand writing. Reasons include:
1) being made to write with their right hand
2) being taught by parents and teachers who are rightys
3) smudging from their hand over the ink.

[Anonymous]

I'm a lefty and my handwriting is lovely. DH is also a lefTy and his is ok.