Talk:Mirror writing

message: Mirror Writing is a completely innate ability-- at least in my experience as a mirror writer it is--I was able to mirror write fluently and naturally the very first time I attempted the artform. Over the years I have developed my mirror writing in an artful manner similar to calligraphy. I have worked at perfecting the astetic balence of the script and incorporating it into original art and apparrel designs-- (see more at www.mirror-graphics.com) I am not dyslexic however dyslexia runs in my family. I suppose I was fortunate to have gotten the intriquing ability out of the gene. I am left handed like most mirror writers. Initially I had difficulty reading my own mirror writing without the aid of a mirror--with practice I have developed the skill. The writing came naturally involving hardly a thought yet I found it took a different kind of focus to read the script. I beleive that reading mirror writing is a skill that can be developed but I am unsure if one can develope the skill to mirror write. Some people I find are able to easily read the text yet cannot mirror write themselves.  Another interesting point is that my mirror writting penmanship is exactly the same as my normal script when reflected in the mirror--my signatures are identical. This 'mirrorcool' gift has amazed many an onlooker at many a party and many recipients of my 'mirrorcle' notes have delighted at the 'secret' message inside.  I celebrate the artform because it invites people to look at the world a little differently--perhaps a bit backwards even-- or else they face themselves in the mirror in order to 'get the message'. User:Mirror Writer
:You're corrrect that a very small fraction of people are already able to mirror write. Almost everybody, however, if they wanted to would be able to train themself to mirror write. For each character, after enough time goes by, they will be able to figure out one at a time what that character's mirror image looks like and write it, then do the same for the next character and then they will slowly pick up speed occasionally writing an uninverted character without realizing it, but the writing of uninverted characters will become rarer with practice. Mirror reading is also something almost anyone would be able to train themself to do if there existed mirror printed text for them to practice on. Text can be mirror printed as described in Printing a Document's Mirror Image. Blackbombchu (talk) 23:35, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Mirror Writing is not only a gift its a Mirrorcle

message: Source says 1 in 6500 has the ability of mirror writing, but I wonder if it is really that rare.....can anyone who has this ability ( without the need of tracing the text as described in the article, of course) kindly drop a line here?
137.59.227.226 (talk) 12:14, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Little Survery about Mirror Writiing

message: 17:47, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mirror writing 

message: Hi I am a left-handed mirror writer.  While my younger brother and I are both left handed, our parents are both right-handed, I am the only mirror writer.  When I was being taught how ot write I would write things correctly but in the mirror writing form.  I had to be taught how to write normal, or so others could read it.  I am now twenty-three and still to this day if I do not sit and think about how I am writing I will write in mirror form.
hi I'm shamvi and i mirror write all the time..sometimes i send notes to my friend mirror writing with dark ink and they'll flip the page to read it. I tried it out after this guy did it on tv, and i was like what's so hard in that? I have not found anyone who can mirror write fast so far but i don't believe it's rare.
Hello, I'm Nino from Georgia. I can use both hands, with the right one I write normally but with the left one I'm a mirror wrighter. That's a bit strange. I didn't learn it, it's somehowe natural.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.137.138.245 (talk) 21:41, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  I am a mirror writer 

message: 1.Mirror writing is not a gift. It is a skill.
I found out that my grandma was ambidextrous. So maybe it is inherited but still one hast to start at some point doing.
2.Writing with left hand from right to left is much
easier and faster.
3."This is explainable by the fact that it is easier to pull a quill pen than to push it; by using mirror-writing, the left-handed writer is able to pull the pen from right to left and also avoid smudging what has just been written."  it's qoute frome page about da vinci in wikipedia and i think it should be included in this page.
I'm 22 and i recently started to mirror write. I wanted 
to be like da vinci. The more i write the more i think it is usefull skill
If i write with letter in all caps, kind of machine writing, 
then i can read myself. When i write handwriting style then i don't
but i think i can overcome that. Sometimes(20% or more) i can't read what i wrote
with right hand. i have unreadable style :) ).
So i think scientists theories: that mirror writing is inherited and
that davinci mirror write to keep notes secret, are false.
Any coments?
PS.I think that this kind of writing should be learned in schools. Why?
becouse it can help develope both hemispheres, and that can lead to more
creativity.
PS.2.  Writing for me is so slow, i recently preffer to make a voice notes about ideas(on my pc), it is much faster.
PS.3.I'm probably dyslexic (doctor said so)
ChrisBatory 16:33, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some answers 

message: I think the Vitruvian Man is a rather poor example and does not serve a practical, informative, encyclopedic purpose. In my opinion it should be replaced with an example of mirror compared to the same example in standard writing, computer-made or not. -Kame2000 15:43, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example? 

message: Research suggests that the ability of mirror writing is probably inherited and caused by a typical language organisation in the brain [1]. Approximately 1 in 6500 people in the population inherited the ability of mirror writing and half of their children also inherited the ability. There are more left-handed mirror writers than right-handed ones, probably because left-handed people tend to have atypical language centres in their brain.
there a contradaction between the first and the last sentence, or am I wrong ?
I think the first sentence need to be corrected I'll do it soon unless someone thinks otherwise.ErnestC 00:29, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  an error ?  

message: if that digit was calculated as stated on this page (there a link to that page on the article page):
then I think it should be added in the article that the digit must be seen a at least rough approximation for the readership is already a vague digit and the method seems to consider any person able to read the fable in less than a minutes will respond (what is not sure at all).
maybe we could add a sentence like "this digit is an maybe not so precise evaluation" and a note with a link to the page where the evaluation method is explained ?ErnestC 00:53, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  1 in 6500 

message: I think some redirects should be added. I searched for the page under "mirror-writing" (without the quotation marks, and it didn't go straight to the page, but did find it in the search results. I would add it myself, but don't know how to.
Any other suggestions for article name redirects?
WikiReaderer 23:37, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just added that one. See Wikipedia:Redirect for information about redirects. Graham87 13:20, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add redirect? 

message: There is one notable example. What was other historical 'not notable'?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.16.176.166 (talk) 03:18, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  history is it only one? 

message: Mirror writing shows up unintentionally when people are editing images that include orthographies they don't know, and they flip or rotate the image for design purposes. See, for example,
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*and the first two images here
I don't know if anyone else has examples of this, but if there are enough (or if this sort of stuff is mentioned in general in any reliable sources) would it be worthwhile to add a sentence or two to the article? rʨanaɢ talk/contribs 12:08, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Unintentional mirror writing

message: Unintentional mirroring is sourced in inattention and/or unfamiliarity with the subject. This can be noticed fairly regularly when one studies images and film. I don't think that people can unintentionally mirror write with ease, unless they possess an unusually strong natural inclination.Ineuw (talk) 14:25, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Unintentional mirroring

message: The article talks about "the ability to do mirror writing". Having read parts of the discussion I think I understand that "to do mirror writing" means something like "to write in mirror style as naturally as one writes in regular style without having ever practised this particular skill". I am not confident enough in my understanding to actually go and edit the article myself, but, for the benefit of other readers, I suggest someone change the wording in order to make it clearer, as it is really unclear at the moment. 188.169.229.30 (talk) 00:09, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: By some strange coincidence, I came here to make exactly the same point. The whole paragraph starting "Research suggests that the ability to do mirror writing..." is very confusing because it is quite obvious that anyone with normal abilities can teach themselves to do this if they practice enough. In fact, I did many years ago, despite having no particular natural aptitude, although I have largely forgotten the skill now. Presumably the article is talking about some special facility to do it without effort, having learned only the standard way of writing, but this is never even mentioned, let alone defined. 86.146.108.51 (talk) 02:59, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Ditto -- some years ago I taught myself to do this, for the purpose of improving labeling on tin-cure RTV silicone molds. One cannot really write directly onto cured silicone, so one is left to primitive labeling methods, such as carving roman numerals into the side of the cured mold with an X-Acto knife. However, if you use a marker to write backwards on the mold box (I found that a blue Sharpie works best), the ink is absorbed into the rubber as it cures, producing a label which generally lasts (it can fade somewhat with time) until the mold is no longer viable. I did not find the skill to be particularly difficult to learn, and interestingly, found that various aspects of my normal penmanship were also present in my backward writing, when it was then observed in forward direction on cured molds. John Cocktosten (talk) 23:53, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does "to do mirror writing" mean? 

message: I am a mirror writer and I also have the ability (or weird adaption) to move in mirror motions.  By this I mean that when I move one side the other side typically does the alternate thing.  Weird, yes. Strange, yes. Does anyone experience the same thing?  In every day activities I experience this mirror motion and it's funny when people make fun of; when they see my left hand quivering while I'm writing with my right hand.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.249.84.113 (talk) 05:50, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mirror Writer plus more? 

message: I can write with both hands at the same time, one forward while the other one is a mirror image of the other.  I am for the most part ambidextrous.  However, I would consider myself right handed.  Most of the posts I have read the mirror writers are left handed.  I didn't realize most people could not mirror write.  I came across my ability when I was bored and was amazed when I wrote  forward with my left hand, backwards with my right hand at the same time creating an instant mirror image of whatever I was writing with my left hand. I would love to find more people like this, or find out about the cognitive function of our brain versus those who do not have the ability.  
Janelle♠♠♠♠  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.59.48.4 (talk) 21:09, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Right Handed Mirror Writer 

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message: I could read and write before I went to school in England in the late 1960's but I wrote from right to left so letters mirror. I remember using both hands to write but being encouraged towards my right hand. The main problem is my name contains three s's and I just cannot 'visualise' how to write the right way round so I have always written my s's starting at the bottom of the curve then up as a way of stopping me writing s's backwards. p's and q's d's and b's mean I have to stop and think as the starting at the bottom trick doesn't work, would be interested in how this relates to other experience and research.
92.236.116.55 (talk) 22:50, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pausing when writing especially with numbers.