Writing 154 Shakespeare Sonnets With My Left Hand

The ability to write with either hand seems useful, so I’m writing Shakespeare’s sonnets for practice. Along the way, I’m building the tool to animate my writing, available at https://rescrawl.kylezhe.ng.

Here is my handwriting from March, 17, 2026, the start of this project.

It’s slow, messy, and sometimes my hand spasms from exertion. I’m using muscles I’ve never moved, writing words I have never read. Bear witness to my improvement below.

Gallery

Methodology

For the WPM calculations, a word is 5 non-space characters, and pauses longer than 2 seconds are excluded from the total time.

Works Cited

I used a different source for the first three days, which only seems to differ in punctuation.