My handwriting has alway been terrible. It was the only thing I really got a bad grade in during the years it was graded. Even today when I write something by hand I print instead of writing in cursive. One of the most valuable classes I took in high school was a one semester long keyboarding class (typing but on a computer). Today I can type faster than most people I know and far faster than I can write by hand and it is all thanks to that class I took 25+ years ago.