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Writing love letters and other notes to my girlfriend prompted me to look up videos on handwriting. It honestly doesn't take long -- in preschool it was torture, but as an adult you can achieve big gains in an hour.

What videos did you use?

Other people here, what did you use? I see there are a ton of options - Getty-Dubay is mentioned below but there seem to be many other similar systems.

Drop loop cursive and get the book Write Now which teaches Getty-Dubay italic to adults.

https://handwritingsuccess.com/

That loopy-style cursive they taught us in school was so damn ugly, even when done perfectly, and not especially fast. I never understood why they were making us learn it. Its existence only made any sense to me whatsoever when I learned it was designed with a fountain pen in mind.

I improved my handwriting markedly by teaching my children handwriting. Knowing I was setting a poor example for them was motivating.

I have writing samples from second grade.

My writing was much more legible then.