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Let the good times scroll. A page called penmanshipporn, on the popular content-sharing site, Reddit, features a constant flow of handwriting samples so gorgeous you’ll never want to put a cap on it. 1. This actually stopped me mid-stride. Chalk art in Dublin imgur.com 2. I have been accused of typing handwritten exams more than once. imgur.com 3. My friend told me to show you my meeting notes imgur.com 4. Finished imgur.com 5. Penmanship from 1894 imgur.com “I've gotten a ton of requests from people who want to pay me to address their wedding invitations!” Rochelle Truong, who goes by the Reddit handle ellehcor and has contributed to the page, told The Huffington Post. 6. imgur.com Jesper Lund, who goes by Your_Local_Hero on Reddit, can relate to Truong’s experiences. “On a few occasions I've been asked to write something for prints and tattoo designs for friends, which is kinda cool,” he told HuffPost, 7. imgur.com Thanks to the popularity of texting, many think having good penmanship is a thing of the past -- but that may not necessarily be a good thing. According to a 2012 study, writing something down by hand stimulates your brain. Researchers showed 5-year-old kids, who had not yet learned to read or write, a letter or a shape on an index card and asked them to reproduce it in one of three ways -- to draw it freehand, trace it using dots or type it on a computer. 8. First Post: This sign showed up in a bathroom stall where I go to college... imgur.com 9. Two students at my college have anonymously taken over a chalkboard on campus, they call themselves Danger Dust imgur.com 10. Spent some time writing out Oscar Wilde's 'Reading of Ballad Gaol' today. imgur.com 11. No Shuttle Necessary. imgur.com 12. Thank you card from an Animal Shelter I used. Very different handwriting than I've ever seen. imgur.com Kids who wrote the letter or shape freehand had increased activity in areas of the brain that are activated in adults when they read and write. Kids who traced or typed did not. 13. I love fountain pen ink. imgur.com 14. My everyday handwriting imgur.com 15. Mr. Nomura's Immaculate Handwriting imgur.com 16. Love this blue! imgur.com “When we write, a unique neural circuit is automatically activated,” Stanislas Dehaene, a psychologist at the Collège de France in Paris, told The New York Times. “There is a core recognition of the gesture in the written word, a sort of recognition by mental simulation in your brain.” 17. Insane handwriting by a student in my art class imgur.com 18. Everyday notes from my Moleskine imgur.com 19. My mom has the most beautiful handwriting! imgur.com 20. This ink makes me want wine. imgur.com 21. Using my sketchbook to practice Kanji imgur.com Credits: huffingtonpost.in