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Tools · Assessment

Measure your handwriting

Print one sheet, fill it in and take a photo. The tool measures your baseline, letter size, tall letters and tails, slant, spacing and letter shapes, shows each measurement drawn on your own writing, and picks the practice sheets that target your weak spots. Save the result to your account to see your progress over time.

// Steps

Print the sheet and write on it

One page: the lowercase and capital alphabet, a sentence to copy on guide lines, one on a single line and one on plain paper. Use a pencil or a dark pen and write as you normally do, without hurrying.

Print at 100% (actual size). Colour or black and white both work.

How to use the guide lines

The letter rows and question 3 have four dotted lines, like a school exercise book:

The first words of question 3 written on the four dotted lines, each line labelled
  • Top line: tall letters (b d f h k l) and capitals reach up to it.
  • Middle line: small letters (a c e m n o r s u v w x z) reach up to it.
  • Baseline (the darker dots): every letter sits on it.
  • Bottom line: the tails of g j p q y reach down to it.
See a filled-in example sheet An assessment sheet filled in correctly: every letter in its box, the sentences copied on the lines and twice in the box

Write in your own hand; the example only shows where everything goes.

Photograph or scan it

Lay the sheet flat in good, even light and take the photo from straight above, with all four black corner squares in the picture. A scan works just as well.

Your results

Your results appear here once you've chosen a photo or scan above.

How the assessment works

Nothing here is guessed by an AI. The tool finds the black corner squares to straighten the photo, separates your writing from the printed guides, and then measures it:

Each result is marked good, fair or needs practice against fixed thresholds, the same for everyone. Your letters are not compared with a model font, and any steady slant is fine, forward or backward. What a static photo cannot show is how you wrote: stroke order, direction, speed and grip are not measured.

Your photo is analysed in your browser and is never uploaded. Only when you choose to save a result are the measurements and the cropped writing areas stored with your account.

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Turn the results into practice.

The complete guide to improving your handwriting explains how to work on each skill the assessment measures, with practice sheets for every step.