Cursive Numbers 1 to 100

Honestly, mostly not. In the style taught in most English-speaking schools, the digits 0 to 9 are written with essentially the same shapes in print and in cursive. What changes in cursive is the writing around the numbers: dates, number words and the letters next to them. Some handwriting traditions add small variations, such as a flag on the 1 or a bar through the 7, and individual teachers vary, so if you are practising for a class, follow your teacher's model.

That is why these charts show clean, continuous-stroke digits, drawn with the same engine that produces the letters on this site. The digits are written one at a time and are not joined to each other, which is how almost everyone writes them. The difference you will notice compared with print is mainly rhythm: a steady slant, even height and even spacing.

Each cell has the printed number in small grey type, so you can check which number you are looking at. The dashed line is the middle of the writing space and the red line is the baseline. All digits sit on the baseline and are the same height as the tall letters, which is why they look larger than lowercase letters if you write them in the same line.

Notice how consistent the height is. In the teens and twenties, the first digit is a 1 or 2 and the second digit changes, so the main skill is keeping the width of the pair steady. Practice each decade as a row.

From 51 onwards the digits are all ones you have already met, but the pairs that include 5, 6, 8 and 9 are easier to confuse when written quickly. Slow down on 56, 65, 68, 86, 69 and 96. These are the numbers where a tidy 6 or 9 matters most.

The last entry, 100, is the only three-digit number on the page. Write the 1 first, then two 0s of equal size and with a small space between them. If you join the zeros into a figure of eight, the result reads as 1 and an 8.

The reason digits get misread is that, unlike letters, they have no surrounding word to give a clue. The number 1 100 or 1 000 could be anything if the digits are ambiguous. That is why dates, phone numbers and amounts on forms are the most important place to write clearly.

Writing out numbers is where cursive actually changes things. Twenty-three is a word, and joins like any other. The figure shows every number word you will need up to one hundred: the units, the teens and the tens.

• Hyphens: two-digit numbers from 21 to 99 are written with a hyphen, as in forty-two or ninety-nine. Write the hyphen as a short horizontal line at mid-height.
• Spelling: forty has no u (unlike four and fourteen). Eighteen and eighty keep the silent gh before the t. Ninety keeps the e that nine loses in ninth.
• Capital letters: number words are lowercase unless they begin a sentence.
• Teens vs tens: thirteen/thirty, fourteen/forty, fifteen/fifty are different words with similar shapes. In cursive the difference is mostly the ending teen versus ty.

When words get longer, such as seventeen and seventy-seven, watch your spacing. The v and e need a clear high join, and the double e needs two clean loops. If you are unsure, the cursive joins page explains the exits of v and e.

Handwriting numbers in words is common on cheques, formal letters, greeting cards and school exercises. On a cheque, banks ask for the amount in both digits and words so that a single misread digit does not change the value. If you are filling in a legal or bank document, follow the instructions printed on the form. For notes and diaries, digits are usually fine.

Dates are a special case. Writing "October 29, 2026" in cursive uses the month name and digits for the day and year. Our days and months page covers the month names, abbreviations and capitals.

The PDF below has four pages: two tracing charts (1–50 and 51–100) with grey digits to trace and a ruled line to copy them on, and two pages of number words from one to one hundred with a trace line and an empty line. It prints on US Letter paper at 100 percent. For the single digits only, use the existing 0 to 9 worksheet.

Print at "actual size" or 100 percent. If your printer is set to "fit to page", the ruled lines may shrink and the tracing guides will not match.

This is a common question, and the answer is no, not in a script style. Unicode includes bold, double-struck, sans-serif and monospace digits, but there is no script or cursive set of digits, so cursive text generators leave the numbers as they are. If you see numbers that look cursive in a social media bio, they are usually ordinary digits in a script-like font, or an image. For a decorative number, use an image like the ones on this page, or the cursive translator to produce stroke-based digits.

1. Warm up (2 min): draw rows of ovals and downstrokes at a steady slant.
2. Single digits (2 min): write 0 to 9 across a line, twice.
3. Decades (4 min): pick one row of the chart, such as 31 to 40, and write it three times.
4. Words (2 min): write five number words with the tens, such as thirty, forty, fifty, sixty and seventy.

Do this on alternate days for two weeks and the shapes become automatic. If your numbers keep slanting differently from your letters, work through the letter slant drills at the same time.