Writing 154 Shakespeare Sonnets With My Left Hand

With a few minutes of practice a day, you can pick up any number of strange and useless skills. Like writing with your spare hand.

While this was a trial more commonly endured by left-handed children in history books, I, overgrown and right-handed, am here to train my lazy left.

By chance, I happened to be in the mood for Shakespeare, who happened to write a training arc’s worth of sonnets. They are not all good. Few of them hit like “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” But one by one, I read them all, and I’d like to show how my writing improved while copying these love poems.

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

For your viewing pleasure, I’m using a drawing tablet and my vibe-coded writing reanimation tool (https://rescrawl.kylezhe.ng).

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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