I have very bad handwriting, especially when not taking care to write carefully, which when making notes, I don't.

Here is an example on how it parses my terrible handwriting: https://websites.instantwebsite.app/wPhkwSStQvStUrzPC9jW5Kw/...

(no, I'm not a doctor)

According to the licenses on the device, the handwriting is "partially powered by MyScript" which seems to be this service: https://www.myscript.com/

Wow, that's reMarkably (sorry) good!

I had band handwriting and spent some time with Write Now! which is a book teaching the Getty-Dubay italics method to adults. It helped quite a bit, but I’ve been meaning to revisit it and I think it would be great to pull PDFs into something like ReMarkable for practice.

https://handwritingsuccess.com/

Edit: looks like they have released an iPad app since I last tried it! I’ll also add that when I first did it I found doing the worksheets pretty relaxing as a wind down exercise, in the same way that mindlessly playing puzzle games on a phone would be, but with much more benefit.

What a great way of telling someone their handwriting is terrible without saying it outright, and also give advice on how to improve it! :)

Jokes aside, practice PDFs for improving my handwriting does sound interesting, thank you for taking the time to share it.

I write small and highly connected (e.g. I often drag from one letter to the next, only lifting a bit), and I'm also impressed with the recognition. It's not perfect of course, and doesn't seem to have many smarts about context (... good and bad. I can write weird stuff easily, but it also turns "recognition" to "hecognition" like in that screenshot), but it's much better than I've been able to get out of other devices.

For me, at least some of it is that the pen is more pen-like ("hard" rather than with a tip that depresses), and the sampling rate is much higher than e.g. a Surface. I have a Surface device and I absolutely can't stand writing on it - I have to write huge and slowly and lift a couple mm, or it screws up all over the place. ipads are dramatically better, but they still sample slower AFAICT, and close many of my "e"s into "c"s and similar loss-of-detail.

Oh wow! I'm in a similar boat - type a million MPH but have to take care to avoid scribbling chickenscratch when I write. I preordered the rM2 (not yet shipped) but was pretty worried about how it would fare against the formidable foe of my illegible hieroglyphs. This side-by-side has given me hope. Thank you for sharing!

I've had to read worse when marking exam papers...

The handwriting is pretty good, but tied to a language you pick, which can be annoying if like me you write/think in some messy mix of French/English.

It results in the words from the language picked to be pretty well recognized, but the words from the 'other' language being mapped to similar words from the picked language quite a lot.

For exemple, me writing 'Quelle horreur !' is recognised well if I pick French, but as 'Quelle horror!' in english.

Interesting. How about if you're writing with some technical words (or using the names of projects or companies that are made-up words) that don't appear in dictionaries? Does it have a dictionary that you can add words to?

The dictionary is used as a heuristic I think, but if you write gibberish in it does not try to force it to a 'dictionary' word the way autocorrect can do.

Not sure if you can add stuff to the dictionary, I did not find anything similar yet

The handwriting recognition seems OK for print, but not great when I write in cursive. The pen-tablet interface is very responsive --- I'd really like to know how they managed to get the refresh so quick with an e-ink display, actually. Apart from the texture, it's just as quick as writing on paper: I can't detect any latency.

Do you have the RM1 or the new RM2? apparently the input lag on the RM2 is very low.

It's quite low on both, the RM2 is better though.

Even on the RM1 I can't notice any myself.

I have the reMarkable 1. I've found the device sufficient to replace paper entirely. Due to the eink technology, the responsiveness depends on how much visual update there is on the screen. When you're writing it's very responsive, but if moving a complex drawing it may be slower. The reMarkable 2 should be more responsive though, especially since it has two cores.

I've found it surprisingly accurate. But the main workflow is a little awkward. The handwriting conversion only seems available (unless I've missed something) when you want to share a document via email - the conversion to text happens before you send it. This seems to be the only way to convert handwriting - which is a little annoying.