> I type literally 10x faster than I can write, and when I write I cramp super quickly.
Because you don't do it enough to keep those muscles in training, and because you use the wrong tools when you do.
A $20 Pilot Metropolitan is more than enough to discover how pleasant longhand can be when done with a tool that's designed specifically for that purpose, in a way ballpoints and pencils are not. It'll teach you to stop ramming the point into the paper, too, which is the other reason why writing makes your hand hurt.