How to write the letter K.

For a while now, I've noticed that the way I write K's in english is a bit odd. I learned the typical way in Kindergarden and I always wrote K's that way until recently, when I started writing a bit faster (perhaps a side-effect of taking copious notes in college). This is how K's are normally written:

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Looks pretty standard, right? This is how I write K's now:

The picture on the left shows the instructions for writing K's the way I do and the one on the right makes it a bit more obvious to see exactly how I draw them. First, I draw the downward line and then extend it upwards to the right (it looks like a half-arrow), then I draw the dotted line. It's a very efficient way to draw K's and it looks about the same.


As you can see, there is a noticeable difference but it looks about the same.