So THAT’s why I can’t use the number pad on my keyboard! I’d always wondered, LOL! And now you’ve made me think about trying writing backwards; it sounds really neat.
My penmanship is very good, thanks to a teacher who recommended to my parents to get a chalkboard at home for practice. I neither curl my hand down and backwards, as some do, (which must be tiring), nor drag my hand across the page.
I drag my fist behind me so occasionally I would smear liquid ink. Just lazy I guess. I had an elementary school principal who, believe it or not, had a minor in penmanship. He had me come to his office each day after school and I would practice my letters. By the time I made it to middle school, I won the school-wide penmanship contest. Got a neato transister radio, too. This was in the mid-sixties.
If I had the number keypad on the left side of my computer, I would actually use the calculator function on it and be in “high cotton”. As it is, I keep a ten-key nearby or scrunch over like I did with right-hand lecture chairs. I have actually tried using the keypad with my right hand, and the ten-key at the right side of my desk at work with my right hand but it gives me a headache. I also rarely use the full function of my mouse. Just adjusting, I guess.
Have fun writing backwards. Maybe our minds do rotate better than righties.