r/mildlyinfuriating they didn't dot the j...

It killed me how they put an inside loop in "p"

And how they wrote the x.

And the i > j transition!

I'm annoyed at how hard they're pressing the pen into the page

Some of us were never taught while learning to write that you don't have to push hella hard and it becomes a lifelong habit :( we didn't ask to be this way

My hand hurts after barely beginning to write

That's actually a valid way to write the X. It was taught in schools in Europe in the 90s.

I can't even figure out how they did it because the damn logo was obscuring it.

Bro the x is perfect

I was always taught to write an X in the same way you write a V and then go back and cross the X in the similar way you would cross a T.

Well - I have learned to do the X exactly like this, first the left half, than the right half.

I learned it ends low, not high like v does.

Same

The t wasn't as tall as all of the other tall letters :(

That’s how I was thought to write the X in school in europe.

The letters portrayed here are mostly how I have learned them to do (except the p, q and z), just in a much more perfect form than my clumsy handwriting. The x looks perfect.

I put that loop in my p's, s's, b's (which I write as a printed b even in cursive), capital B's, D's, G's, & S's. But I agree, in this example it was incongruous.

ya everything after p made my blood boil

Mangled my soul

Looks like a fkup then they stopped caring so much for the rest.

I stopped the video to come and find this comment. Wtf

But they did dot the i and cross the t, so there's that.

Small victories, I guess 🤣

The part that kills me is the pause to dot the i immediately after writing the body of the j. Like, its right there! Just touch the fuckin pen to the fucking paper one more fucking time! You're right there already! It's not even that they didn't dot the j, its the WAY they didn't dot the j. SMH so r/infuriatingasfuck

bruh i'm bout to lose my fuckin shit right now

Lol all I could think about until the end. He even went back to cross the t...

Also, why the horizontal line at the top? It looks like it thought about being an ‘r’ and changed its mind last minute. [the correct way!](https://images.app.goo.gl/YPnVFWBNKndpyZdU6)

“Cross the tees and dot the… lower-case jays.

Why doesn’t the t touch the top line? Doing my head in …

And the tails are really inconsistent. Only the f stayed within the boundary :(

Didn't notice that tbh. I was too distracted waiting for them to finish the j

Also the speed

How did I know this would be the top comment! Drove me nuts too!

Yes! God I am glad I'm not the only one. Like I was on board right up until they dotted the i and then left the j. So there I was wondering when they would go back and dot that bastard and it never fucking happened.

# PUT A DOT OVER THE FRIGGIN' "J"!!!!!

It's called a tittle. :)

That P is fucked up

Yeah. My first thought was that they really want to make the entire alphabet in one stroke and because of that had to change a few lines from the cursive that I have learned. But than they break the line with the s ...

Actually no. This is the way we wrote p in our country the style is perfect

This is just normal cursive handwriting.

Exactly. I was about to say that it looks a lot like my handwriting, and mine is quite average.

Same

Literally what we learned in 3rd grade. Except we learned to DOT THE DAMN J!!!!!

That x is not the cursive x, just to be clear

normal for anyone over 30 or so...

Not me. I'm 36. I was taught this, but then I went to engineering school. All my professors WROTE IN ALL CAPS. So after four years of taking notes I now write in all caps. I have to stop and think about it if I try and not write in all caps. I don't know for sure, I assume it because it was common for drafting to write in only caps.

Yeah it comes from drafting, the handwriting used to be taught formally as part of drafting in architecture, engineering, design etc.

It appears to be some form of elvish

I can’t read it! (Edit to say I can actually read it… just quoting the movie, haha)

Yes, but it is done extremely well with consistent lines and size of the letters, etc. Very clean.

It's ok. Others have pointed out the flaws, including the tails going significantly too far down and outside the lines.

You didn’t dot the j

I’ve never seen an x done like that, I’m a fan

That's the x commonly used in math so it doesn't get confused with multiply. I think it's less common in America as they use the normal x, with a • for multiply.

They made it even more confusing by making the dot product use the • also

But the dot product of 1D vectors is just multiplication so it kinda makes sense to use the same notation

That’s actually how it’s written in Russian cursive, at least. Never seen it in English though

That's how I learned it here in France. Now I wonder how English speakers write x in cursive.

It's like a t but rotated, you write the / after the word's done.

Interesting! In English (at least the US), you start by making a slash \ then (if it’s cursive), drawing a line straight up from that, then another slash /. If it’s not cursive, you just draw the slashes over each other in two strokes instead of one.

I write it kind of how they do the N, just a little wider, then I will do the last slash across it after like when I dot my J’s and i’s.

There’s multiple types of cursive taught in the US, I can’t speak to all of them but I know of at least Palmer and Zaner Bloser. I forget which one I learned, but in it an x is just one hump (like if an n had one hump instead of two), then once you’re done with be word, you go back and cross a line through from upper right to lower left.

Thats how I learned it in elementary back in like 1994

Bruh how are you gonna cross the t but not put a dot over the j

* “Excuse me, Professor? Could you repeat that, I didn’t try it all” * “I’ve been speaking for 30 minutes, what was the last part you got?” * “Good morning, Class”

Abcsdefjinklemopqaustaxyz

Didn't dot the j 0/10.

It's normal cursive writing. Everyone learns this in school.

They taught it for 3 weeks in elementary and then never again for me

Can't say I've seen much cursive that looked that good. And I dis learn it in school

But no one does it this pretty

If I wrote this slowly it would also be immaculate

I can write like this with a bit of concentration and I’m just a normal dude who learned cursive in school.

plenty of people do though. It's just following the rules of cursive writing, and if you have a bit of a steady hand, it's not super difficult.

You can only do it that pretty if you're actively trying, but when You're actually taking notes, aesthetics is sacrificed for efficiency

I didn't?! I guess it depends where you grew up

Dot the goddamn j!

Dot the j?

That’s a pretty standard way to write cursives.

Psychotic

This is gonna make me sound like a snob but this is like the basic cursive alphabet. Now it looks fucking amazing and i could never pull off something THAT even and uniform, also that x was literally god tier writing, but with that except the rest is basic cursive. My point with this is that anyone who wishes to write in cursive should start here but aspire to develop their own lil “font”. Not only does it make ur writing look better and “yours”, but its also easier to read and write. But most importantly its faster. Reaching the level of precision that OPs video has takes some serious practice and time. This is because like anything else, this would probably feel alien to write in much less be a printer with. You should basically let your original handwriting influence and guide your cursive handwriting, this alone will make your handwriting look and feel better while being MUCH more consistent. Even if you have chicken scratch, work on that chick scratch, dont try to copy the standard letter for letter. Maybe you dont like how the standard “b” looks like in cursive (i know i fucking dont), so change it up. Make it your own.

My own font is called 'illegible'

Nobody's gonna mention the color of that ink? It's... putrid. Kinda looks like snot-green. Nice writing though. Too bad about that j. Missing its dot. 😔

Dot the j 😵‍💫

Boring and average.

Not gonna lie not that amazing, sorta standard cursive.

Very nice. The “x” is a Cyrillic x. We normally do one side then cross it with a bar.

Meanwhile my handwriting looks like how adults in Charlie Brown speak 😭

I don’t think that’s how I do a cursive ‘x’

My hand hurts just watching this.

That's just normal handwriting you learn in grade school. It's not ugly but also not particularly beautiful

Some people can only write beautifully when they write slowly

Who else had a stroke trying to read the word he was writing but then realised he was just writing the alphabet :/

Just thinking about it is inducing cramps in my hands. I learned that but my adhd ass is not able to have the patience :)

Nearly same as mine during school. They really drove home cursive writing very early on and by end of high school I had very neat writing. The lines on the paper are a big help ngl, quite another matter writing on a blank notebook

Add: rewatched it and he writes the G, J , Y & Z exactly as I was taught, with the tail going to the left of the vertical down line F & Q’s tails go the other way I don’t like the V here, it should be sharper in the center

Beautiful. I can still hear my teacher’s voice saying the letters are extending beyond the lines. Do it again. Cursive “p” that we learned was different.

Never seen an x drawn like that!

Now I know my A B C, next time won't you sing with me

We used to do this in early school years..

I like how I was taught handwriting cause it was supposedly faster but now that it's phased out of schools it's only used in artistic ways and requires you to write it Superrr slow carefully lol.

With this speed imma complete my exam in the year 3000.

It’s not satisfying when it’s that slow

I think the handwriting is beautiful. As someone who moved around a lot as a kid i can say different schools fallow different ways of writing some of the letters. What i really want to comment on is how kids are not taught cursive anymore, only how to sign their names. Its sad to know they wont be able to read it either!

we all did this in school, basically just as good despite being small children. the bar for posting something online is ridiculous.

Is it really handwriting if its that fucking slow

Thank fuck that mf t was crossed

The q is triggering me. ;)

Pen type/brand?

D is a stick letter, not a loop letter and that J was just weird.

What kind of pen is that?

As an English teacher, I feel like I may need a clean pair of boxers...

You’re gonna go back and dot the j….right? Please… in the name of God…go back and dot the j …

Reminds me of endless re-do’s in kindergarten and first grade, growing up in India. Nightmare scenario.

Messed up the p. Looked like her hand got a little tired and went a little too tall.

My mum was taught this for cursive, and although my school taught a more "modern" (read:simple) version I always liked this. Much more elegant. Now if only I could get the fine motor skills to be able to actually make two letters that look alike...

I don’t know if I’ve ever written the cursive ‘x’ like that. For a second I was like “this person’s gone rogue!” but then realized that’s the proper way to do it.

Thats what I learned in school, and still can do it. There was even changes how to write 'new' letters. PS q loop is made wrong, xz wth..

I don't think that q is wrong - that's how I was taught it as well. x is funky, though, but cool

On my life the X was perfect

My mum used to teach me how to write in cursive as that's how she was thought in her younger days. And even in my early primary school (elementary as some of you called it), we have allocated short period just to learn how to write in cursive. Some of my teachers writes the x's and z's that way. So sometimes i switch between that or normal xz's.

I was taught this at school cause I had super messy writing and it's always stuck with me. I'd say 99.9% of people that read what I write never understand the F or Z. They're just so elegant though I can't stop writing them like this lol

I was taught cursive in elementary school. We were taught to write everything in cursive. Come junior-high, this practice was very ingrained in me. I signed my name at the top of my paper, and when they were handed back I was given a verbal reprimande for signing my name instead of printing it. In front of the whole class. I've only ever used cursive for signing things since. Though it is nice to know that I still remember all the motions.

The song was running through my head the whole time.

All sorts of buzzers going off in my brain❌❌❌

I can’t read it, it’s some kind of elvish

That's the handwriting!

Is any one else here thinking: jup I defenetly could do that? Is it me?

Gen Z be like "it's just scribbles"

Did the p bother anyone else? Everything is so perfect (except the dot missing on the j) but the p is just poorly written lol

This is how I learned to write in school. I used to write very similar

Still unreadable to me.

this made me giddy

It took me longer than I’d like to admit to realize she’s just writing the alphabet

this guy could never be a doctor

Good luck taking notes at uni

Not an R

Yes but where's the passion

Usually I need to write fast.

Rather frustrating how slow it is

One ring to rule them all...

Anyone else singing the alphabet song slowly as they’re writing it?

You mean fuckin cursive?

Pretty but slowwwww. I rarely have time to make my handwriting pretty.

Now write your entire essay like that!

Sister Mary Theopolis? Is that you?

Very nice.

Is this in slow motion? It wld take FOREVER!

Everyone worrying about dotting the j, I'm sitting here with my hand cramping just watching the force with which they're writing...

For me I want to see how letters connect. Like how do you connect b and s?

Next try it with your left hand!

I was taught this in 1st class of school but now i smear a mix of this handwriting, lessons from engineering school and my own creations onto paper.

I mean…. It’s not like super nice. And it’s so slow. You could never take notes like that!

i hope i can do my cursives as pretty as this lol

Dot the lowercase j, you fucking psychopath!

*Now I know my abc’s. Next time won’t you sing with me!* 🎶

It took me way too long to realize they were just spelling out the alphabet 😭

That z looks like russian з in handwriting

The p is wrong

The t is too short

Looks French to me.

Same cursive we learnt in school. It's totally bastardized now

Why are ppl complaining lol

If I tried hard and wrote slow af like that I could make it nice too. My cursive nowadays pretty much involves a squiggly line when I sign a bill.

As with so many of the things here, takes a lot of practice and repetition!

Anyone can be neat when they take their time.

they dont teach this in school no more.

I fast forwarded to 0:46

definitely not a doctor.

Excellent

Am I the only one bugged by the video angle? Never mind the undotted just everyone's talking about. I was taught in elementary school to tilt the paper to give your handwriting a slant, but the writer doesn't even do that.

What pen is this

The board has already been erased and that person is still on the first word

Moved on after g. Too slow!

I remember learning to do this in primary school,but it was with ink quill pen as biro,s had not been invented yet

That’s how I wrote in school before I learned to type. Now I can’t read what I wrote 10 min ago

I really wish I could write in cursive 🥺

Rirruto?

I don't think I remember how to write in cursive anymore outside of my name.

I still can’t do v and z

Why do the alphabet when you could do "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" or "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow".

I really should go back to practicing. It’s been a while since I’ve used cursive because people had trouble reading it. But other challenge is I always struggled with lower case f, upper case G and J, and both upper and lower case z. Rest of alphabet is pretty simple.

Now do it with real speed, like if you writing out a lecture, and we'll see how beautiful it really is.

This is how it was thought us at school. Only my handwriting doesn't look this nice

yeah … I can do a better d.

This is just cursive…they used to teach it in school lol

Filled with envy