Reddit Deduction 1: Analyzing Handwriting

20, November, 2023

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This is a post from redditor asking to analyze his/her ? handwriting.

[Mine] What can you deduce about me from my handwriting?
byu/TheRainbowWillow inscienceofdeduction

Observation

The most important thing mistake that beginner makes is not having a thorough observation before getting frustrated at having no deduction. I will start with observation with “level” of thoroughness.

Level 1: Overall observation

This is a neat handwriting, clean, in English, written in pencil.

Level 2: Content

Question, number, letter capital and not, different writing.

With the quick Google, the quote was from Shakespear.

Recognition of another reditor.

Level 3: The Letters (vehicle of content)

I quickly scan everything and realize some anomaly.

1. Most letters are neatly written, the base of the letters was on the line. But, notice in the first question, words slightly jump above the line.
2. You can see most letters have consistent width, boldness. Besides from a few words that appears about every 3 lines.
3. The words in italic parts are very crooked.

Level 4: The Paper (where the content was performed)

Not much of a deep observation, but these are “hidden” because people wouldn’t pay attention to it, since the question was about analyzing handwriting.

1. There is a soft fold in the middle to the right of the paper.
2. There is another fold on the bottom right corner of the paper.
3. There is a shadow only on the right side of the paper.

Deduction

American, high school age, so around 16-18, right handed.

You were bored and got excited when you first thinking of this idea to have people analyze your hand writing.

You have a habit of spinning your pencil around while writing.

Deduction that I’m not sure yet: you’re a girl / queer guy. You have more to show but decided to only showing 1 page.

Feedback

Good work, detective!

I am American and high school age (18), although I’m in college.

I was indeed bored and then excited by this idea of getting some free handwriting analysis!

I do change which side of the tip of my pencil is touching the paper! You can probably tell by the changes in line width.

I am AFAB and queer and I do have more writings, but most are notes from class or tiny annotations in my textbooks, and reminders to myself. I thought this would be a clearer overview of how I write.

Explanation

Level 1

I vaguely have an idea of a careful person (near handwriting) and this person might be American. (English and use pencil).

Know that this is not a conclusion but theories. Everything needs to be validated to be a good deduction.

Level 2

This person is thorough and have a system (different section of handwriting).

This person worries about the look and credit (credit another redditor).

This person is reading/ recently read Shakespear. Really rarely someone in modern day read Shakespear for fun so I placed my trust in this is for academic purposes. I know that Shakespear is taught in American high school (confirm again with Google) so this person can be a student or an English teacher. This validates my previous deduction of this person is American. I also lean on this person is a student rather a teacher because of this subreddit’s demographic. A highschooler in USA is usually from 16-18 years old. I can’t place this person at 18 years old yet because I don’t know if they teach Shakespear at lower classes, but I had my doubt. Turned out I was right.

Level 3

This is a combination of deductions above.

Having nice handwriting in USA is pretty rare as USA doesn’t prioritize nice handwriting like in Asia. So having nice handwriting is by the careful systematic nature of this person. Girls usually have nice handwriting because of this nature. So the hypothesis is this person is a female.

Now, I know that in the US, LGBTQ is really popular, and they tend to have a lot of “attention seeking” behavior that is different from straight people. Combine with recognition of another redittor above, I think this person could also be a queer. And a queer with feminine nature would be male queer.

I was wrong. This person is a queer, but AFAB, which I googled was Assigned Female At Birth.

Level 4

The first question, the letter raised above the line, but every letter after is on the line. When I noticed this, I had to double check to make sure this is just a 1 time thing.

A sudden change in behavior is a result from a emotion change inside. If you practice body language, you should know this. It really amazed me how I recognized and applied to this situation.

I don’t think scare, sad, surprise would make this person continue writing this piece, so the better deduction would be excitement.

Based on how consistent the letters are, this person is really stable. Only a big jump of emotion will trigger this imperfection, so it must be from boredom to excitement (short-lived).

Level 5

The italic part being crooked means this person doesn’t really write italic. Most people don’t so this deduction doesn’t really do anything so I didn’t include.

I did some experiments to see how to achieve such a fold like in the middle of the page. The only way worked for me was with right hand, the thumb on one side while the other 4 on the other side, the 4 fingers push and bend the paper before turning the page. High chance that this person does this.

The fold at the right corner is a lazy turn. I also did some experiments and haven’t got the same result with the left hand. Combine with no smear on the letters and the above deduction, this person is right-handed.

Level 6

Now that I know this person is right-handed because the page was turned, but why was it turned?

It is really unlikely that this page is in the middle of a note in class and OP just continue taking notes after writing the whole piece. This makes me think that OP also wrote something on the other side, or the next page.

There is only 1 page shown here, so the theory is “this person wrote more than just 1 page, but decided to not show it”. But I can’t validate this theory, so it stays as deduction that I’m not sure yet.

Extra

This person thinks that this is stereotypes and it maybe is for a lot of people. They can just know everything I just deduced without a thought.

What I just explain is me being completely new to this and gave out an explanation of how this stereotype could have been formed through deduction.