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Well as I'm getting closer to 18 my dad keeps getting harder and harder on me to perfect my signature and make it more legible.
I've been working on it for a week now, and I'm writing faster but letters are running together and no one would know it's my name.

I'd actually say I'm getting worse.

So does anyone know any methods to perfecting a signature? Or even handwriting in general.

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I had to sign 50+ letters for a change of address at my work. I got a sheet of paper and covered it in bad signatures so that by the end it was almost illegible; but that's what I wanted. Try that, doesn't take too long.

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Damn I'm good.

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I find your lack of faith disturbing...

You know, I've never signed for anything the same way twice and I've never had any issues come up as a result of that, maybe things are different for me, here than they are over there, but in general, it's all in how you make your loops and the way you slant your letters, go with what feels comfortable for your hand.

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He expects your signature to be legible? Does he know how many people over the age of 16 have legible signatures? As long as you're not just doing a line, or an x, and the first letter of each name can be read (and maybe some of the letters within) you're doing fine. The most important parts of a signature are that you do it the same way every time, and that it's not easy to copy (like an x would be. And I have seen some adults do an x, it's not very smart).

DF, when you get to signing contracts or having a bank account or credit card, signing the same way every time is important. If someone fraudulently signs something in your name, the company will be able to tell by the hard copy of your signature that they have on file.

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I had an old signature. Now I've changed it.

I started perfecting my signature in 5th grade.

Back then, it was rigid and legible.
Now it's loopy and extravagant.

The thing about a signature is, it's something that only you can match. It doesn't even have to be your name. Alfred Hitchcock's signature was is silhouette. Just make it something that will always be the same on whatever you sign.

I work at a hospital, and I've seen doctor signatures that are pretty much a curly "L"

So just write your name fast, but not as letters, as shapes. It's harder to imitate a J that looks like an oval, than just a J.

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I also lock my wrist and write the curls with my elbow as the flex point. Starting and stopping more of your arms weight is a way to make your signature distinguishable, but only you have the weight in your arm right to imitate it.

This post has been edited by leilong on 21st January 2007 00:16

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I know this guy who's signature is just an A followed by a bunch of squiggles, then a W followed by a bunch of sqiggles.
It actually looks fairly good.

My dad's sig is just a little curly line. It's like some illieterate guy who makes an X while saying "I'm jus' 'onna make ma mark." It might actually be a letter; he has terrible handwriting.

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ADAEAFADAEAFAGAEAFAGAAAFAGAAABbAGAAAFAGAEAFADAEA
C#ADAAABbGAAAFAGAEAFADAEAC#AFADAEAC#ADAAABbAGAA
AEAFADAGAEAFADAEAC#AD

My husband's signiture is a tight little squiggle. My signature is simply my name written in cursive. Personally, I think the latter is a little more useful...

I wouldn't waste time on a "signature", anyway. If you can't write cursive that other people can read, though, that's a problem that only practice is going to fix.

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When I was younger, my penmanship was so bad that my parents and teachers decided it would be best for me to spend every day after school, at school for an hour, practicing penmanship....

end result......my penmanship still sucks......

maybe I just didn't try hard enough 'cuz I was so bored with it. It would seem like practice makes perfect

Haha, listen:

If I ever have children, their teachers will call me ALL the time. Everytime I'm supposed to sign my name, I get nervous and do something different. It all looks SORT of the same, but sometimes it's just a bunch of things that look like hills with a line through them, and sometimes there's a couple letters in there, or sometimes everything is legible. It's really bizarre.

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I can't remember the last time I tried to write cursive other than a signature. I've probably forgotten how to even make some of the letters in cursive. My signature is the only cursive writing I've done in the last several years, which would probably have you thinking that it would be perfected by now, and be nice and neat and perfectly legible.

But you'd be wrong.

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I'm the same way when writing in cursive, and the only time I use cursive is for signatures.

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I wouldn't waste time on a "signature", anyway. If you can't write cursive that other people can read, though, that's a problem that only practice is going to fix.

Practice is the route i'm still on, my C's H's and Y's look good but the rest for my first name isn't visible. Both the E's need to be more prominent, especially the E on the end. But the more I practice the less visible they are.

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So just write your name fast, but not as letters, as shapes. It's harder to imitate a J that looks like an oval, than just a J.

I'll have to try that.

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DF, when you get to signing contracts or having a bank account or credit card, signing the same way every time is important. If someone fraudulently signs something in your name, the company will be able to tell by the hard copy of your signature that they have on file.

I suppose it would make it a lot easier on these other companies, but generally in terms of bank account, they call me every time I take money over 100$ from the account as a precaution, so I'm sure for any other similar instance, they can just notify me and I can confirm/deny if it was me or not.

I'd never trust myself with a credit card, there is one registered to my name but I never, ever touch it unless I'm in some sort of extremely desperate need of money and it's my only remaining option.

I admit, it's probably a bad idea to go with and half the time, I don't even realize what I've done until after I've signed my name. I guess eventually, when one style stands out to me, I'll go with that. Until then, I'll probably just keep switching it up as I go.

I almost never write in cursive unless it's for a signature, otherwise I'm just not very good at it. I've always prefered standard printing as my writing is much easier to read this way. My cursive is the equivalent to random loopy lines and scratches that aren't even legible to me sometimes.

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Okay, but there was a goat!

I'm the wrong guy to answer. I skipped the grade where you learn cursive and had to learn how to write the whole alphabet over a summer, from my grandma. Needless to say, my writing never got very good.

I think your dad has some odd priorities. All it ever needs to be, really, is somewhat consistent. I don't think ANYONE has a legible signature.

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The story with me is that I started off writing very slowly and making sure each letter was legible. Now it's very fast and semi-legible but I find that sometimes miss letters in my name (such as the e before the y in my real first and last name) and have to add them in afterward.

With the increase in stores using those electronic signature pens, people's signatures will undoubtedly get worse and look less like it. However, even if the sig is different there are experts that can compare handwriting and tell if the same person wrote them even if to the untrained eye they look completely different. Thank you Court TV for educating me in forensics.

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I think your dad has some odd priorities. All it ever needs to be, really, is somewhat consistent. I don't think ANYONE has a legible signature.

It is one of the strangest things he has ever gotten on me about.
it has some merit, but not enough for me to practices signature4s beyond tonight.
He's not even checking up on me. So I'm just going to make the last letter of my name more prominent out of spite. and close this thread.

Writing signatures wastes too much time and my hand is sore.

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