What can people tell about you from your handwriting?

By: Jody Mabry
Estimated Completion Time
2 min
What can people tell about you from your handwriting?
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About This Quiz

Graphology, the study of handwriting, can reveal your deepest secrets! Even when you don't realize it, your handwriting is giving you way. Let's find out what others can learn from the way you write!
What font do you use when using a computer?
Times New Roman
Helvetica
Garamond
Courier
What hand do you write with?
Right
Left
Ambidextrous
Neither very well.
What do you write with?
Pencil
Ballpoint pen
Gel pen
Marker

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How would you describe your hand's steadiness?
I could be a gunfighter.
I waver a little.
My hand shakes uncontrollably
Steady, but I occasionally twitch my fingers.
Do you still write with paper?
Only when I am signing something.
In my journal.
All the time.
Only when filling something out.
How do you write?
Cursive
Standard
A mix of cursive and standard.
I only use a keyboard of touchscreen.

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What are you most likely to write on?
Sheet of paper.
An Envelope.
Journal paper.
A post card.
How many penny-widths wide do you space between words?
1
2
3
4+
Where do you cross your T's?
Ahead of the T.
Behind the T.
Over the T.
Under the T.

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Which direction do your letter slant?
Forward
Backward
Straight up and down.
All directions.
How do you space out your sentences?
Close together.
Far apart.
Average
It varies.
How do you dot your I's?
With a dot.
Circle
Heart
Don't dot them.

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What is your tallest letter?
F
L
T
J
Do you have a happy personality?
Yes
No
Usually
Sometimes, but usually not.
What is your shortest letter?
a
e
o
u

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What decade were you born?
1970's or earlier
1980's
1990's
2000's
What is your highest level of education?
High school.
Some college.
2-year or 4-year degree.
Advanced degree.
Are your letters...
Large
Small
Medium
Change the more I write.

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When not using pen and paper, how do you write?
Tablet
Computer
Phone
Laptop
Does your handwriting slant?
Not at all.
A little.
A lot.
I'm practically writing horizontal.
Which paper do you prefer?
Plain
Ruled
College ruled.
Don't care.

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Where do you usually write?
In bed.
School.
At coffee shop.
Store signing receipts.
Are your sentence straight on a blank sheet of paper?
The sentence leans downward.
The sentence leans upward.
The sentence is straight.
The sentence is up and down.
How many words can you write per minute?
10
15
20
25+

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If you need to label anything, do you:
Write the same way as on paper.
Write sloppier than on paper.
Try to write more neatly than on paper.
Use a label maker.
How many pages can you write before your hand aches?
Half
1 page.
2 pages.
3 pages.
How hard do you hold your writing utensil?
My knuckles are white.
Not hard, but you couldn't pull it out of my hand.
Lightly, but hard enough to break a pencil tip.
Light enough to drop a couple times while writing.

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Do you write the same when you begin as when you end?
Yes
No
Sometimes
Never
How does your handwriting change as you write?
Becomes worse.
Becomes better.
More slanted.
Becomes smaller or bigger.
How much bigger are your capital letters then lowercase?
Same size.
Twice as big.
Three times as big.
Four times as big.

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