The big benefit isn't learning a specific writing style, it's building the eye-hand motor control skills needed to form letters the way your eye intends. Take a

The big benefit isn't learning a specific writing style, it's building the eye-hand motor control skills needed to form letters the way your eye intends. Take a glance at the 2nd practice exercise on the OP (two continuous rows of interlocked O's with a vertical zig-zag between them) - very few people have the eye-hand coordination to make those shapes nicely without practice (let alone make them quickly). If you do nothing but practice that one exercise, you'll get 90% of the benefit of the Palmer method and your handwriting will improve noticeably, regardless of what style of handwriting you prefer [0] [0] yes, this is a semi-anecdotal study, but I go through the drill every five or ten years and each time my handwriting radically improves, and I've watched multiple co-workers go through the same experience (each time after admitting they envy'd my handwriting because they were too embarrassed to write on whiteboards because of their own illegible scrawls)