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business handwriting: timing

TODO: get the note to be completed

here’re some average times a student has to spend while training handwriting. these drills are taken from the palmer method of business writing.

double straight lines and ovals (drill 2)

  • 200 downward strokes to a minute

  • ovals are clockwise, then anticlockwise

single ovals (drill 4)

  • tbd

loops (drill 24)

  • tbd

10-stroked capital m (drill 25)

  • 16 to a minute

alphabet letters

capital a

  • from 75 to 85 to a minute

capital b (drill 86, 87)

  • approx. 40 to the minute for disconnected

  • slightly higher rate for connected ones


book: palmer, business handwriting