5. Capital E
All I can see when I look at a cursive capital E is a backwards 3. The asymmetrically bothers me as well, I know some people make their printed capital Es with the middle stroke higher than the middle, but I could never bring myself to do so. At least it takes one stroke, compared to its 4 stroke printed counterpart.




4. Lowercase n
Hmm...two humps. What letter has two humps? Oh yeah, the lowercase printed m. One of the most frustrating cursive letters to learn, as you'll always be second guessing the number of humps to use. The lowercase cursive m just looks like a mess too, with a ridiculous three humps.




3. Capital P
Looks exactly like its printed counterpart except it's kinda slanted and curvy. Requires retracing upwards exactly along the original line, unlike pretty much every other cursive letter. Does not connect with other letters unless you want to make it look exactly like an R, so when you start a sentence or proper noun that starts with a P it looks like you forgot you were writing in cursive for a second.




2. Capital F
What a monstrosity. This three-stroke (the most of any cursive letter) battleship requires copious amounts of dexterity. Connecting to another letter looks odd, with a half-line downstroke.




1. Capital Q
Not only the least recognizable cursive letter, but also looks remarkably like the number 2. Why couldn't the loop just start in the bottom-left corner, and continue clockwise from there? Capital O doesn't have this bizarre half-loop thing going on, why should Q?


Letters taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cursive.png