掲示板 Forums - How important is accuracy in kanji handwriting?

Ive noticed about half of my mistakes are little extra lines, missing lines, or slightly misplaced lines (like 石右).

1.) Would it just read like when you misspell in english?

Like lose/loose, forrest/forest, you're/your, or tgis/this, where often you dont even notice the mistake because the general shape and the rest of the sentence gives you enough context to read it correctly?

2a.) A lot of these mistakes also happen repeatedly, which is probably muscle memory and the like.. (like wa-crown instead of u-crown in the copy kanji)

Is that something i should put more effort into, is it a skill that just comes with time, or should i just ignore them?

2b.) Idk if people know how kanji are graded in schools.. but in my primary school we had "schusselfehler" (inattention mistakes) that were still marked in red but not subtracted from the score..

Should i mark them as inattentive instead of wrong?

3.) I know a lot if people say "handwriting isnt really nessecary these days" but i dont really care about that.. i want to learn it because i feel like it.

Other times with similar questions people say grading is useless.. but its fun to me and it helps me target mistakes.

(Just because those answers happen a lot) Those points really arent what the question is about. Its just about the importance of writing accuracy.

Ive tried looking online but im not far enough into learning to find the right resources yet..

'​Holding the pen different' as in the way that you grip it?

These here are all written in 5mm boxes (math grid) because im being stingy on paper.. so theyre a bit messier than normal since theyre quite small.. ive been told i write very textbook/print like.. maybe thats why it looks odd?

If its very apparant i suppose 'typos' would be a good comparison.. like 'tgis'

Now to figure out how to iron out such little mistakes.. mnemonics and repetition wont help there..

​Yes, exactly.

Typically when Japanese people hold a pen/pencil it's much closer to vertical than westerns hold it. Since you're not holding the pen quite as vertical, there's a lot more curvature than I would typically see from a native and the curvature is in different places. Truthfully though, outside of maybe helping a little bit with keeping the characters balanced, and changing some curvature it's not a huge deal. I can only notice because I'm sat staring at it, specifically to see what looks "different", in an everyday situation that won't be happening.

The only real way to sort out the mistakes is... Well, to practice. Make a point of practicing the correct variation, and maybe even look into the Kanji Kentei. When you learn things in a similar way to natives, it can help the output be more "native-like".

Don't give up, the handwriting already looks really good and good luck with your future practice!