I write in a combination of printed and cursive letters: basically using the print versions where I think the joined up version as taught looks rubbish - I'm sure to look at it's very similar to your printed-but-not-lifting-pen option. I'll tend to use all printing when wanting to be especially clear (email addresses, cards to young relatives).
As for specific features: it can vary. E is sometimes straight, sometimes curved (like a reverse 3) and sometimes a weird version which has a loop through the top curve, as if it were joined to a previous letter. I tend to use a crossbar on z when deliberately printing but not when joined up, similarly a printed k is straight but joined up often looped. I do almost always cross my 7s though. Oh and I draw my xs with a curve in mathematical contexts, but not in normal handwriting. And my z very occasionally has a descender, but that was a bit of a phase :-)
Edit: Actually, looking a sample of handwriting from when I was scribbling Christmas card lists (on the same piece of paper I just wrote the alphabet to test my writing - you'd think I'd have *noticed* I had a sample there already and just looked at that), it seems my os sometimes meet and sometimes have a gap, my vs are curvier than I thought, but the rest seems much as described. There's also sometimes a bit of a gap in the top curve of my d, which you don't mention.
Oh and I draw my xs with a curve in mathematical contexts, but not in normal handwriting
Yes, me too. Nearly mentioned that in the poll, except that I decided mathematical context was too specialist to be of general interest. I also write 'l' with a loop in mathematical context (on the grounds that in that particular situation there tends to be too little context around to permit reliably distinguishing it from a 1).
a bit of a gap in the top curve of my d
I didn't mention that because I don't recall ever having been taught to do it or seen anyone else do it as if deliberately. I'm less interested in gaps that arise accidentally from high speed than I am in ones that are an intentional part of the writing style as designed.
Oh and I draw my xs with a curve in mathematical contexts, but not in normal handwriting.
I do this, too; and the form I use is one I only learned in a mathematical context -- neither the D'Nealian handwriting we were taught early on, nor common German handwriting, has the )( form I learned in maths.
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As for specific features: it can vary. E is sometimes straight, sometimes curved (like a reverse 3) and sometimes a weird version which has a loop through the top curve, as if it were joined to a previous letter. I tend to use a crossbar on z when deliberately printing but not when joined up, similarly a printed k is straight but joined up often looped. I do almost always cross my 7s though. Oh and I draw my xs with a curve in mathematical contexts, but not in normal handwriting. And my z very occasionally has a descender, but that was a bit of a phase :-)
Edit: Actually, looking a sample of handwriting from when I was scribbling Christmas card lists (on the same piece of paper I just wrote the alphabet to test my writing - you'd think I'd have *noticed* I had a sample there already and just looked at that), it seems my os sometimes meet and sometimes have a gap, my vs are curvier than I thought, but the rest seems much as described. There's also sometimes a bit of a gap in the top curve of my d, which you don't mention.
Yes, me too. Nearly mentioned that in the poll, except that I decided mathematical context was too specialist to be of general interest. I also write 'l' with a loop in mathematical context (on the grounds that in that particular situation there tends to be too little context around to permit reliably distinguishing it from a 1).
a bit of a gap in the top curve of my d
I didn't mention that because I don't recall ever having been taught to do it or seen anyone else do it as if deliberately. I'm less interested in gaps that arise accidentally from high speed than I am in ones that are an intentional part of the writing style as designed.
I do this, too; and the form I use is one I only learned in a mathematical context -- neither the D'Nealian handwriting we were taught early on, nor common German handwriting, has the )( form I learned in maths.