American here, I learned cursive in school (what we call our “loop writing”) but it was clear it was going to be phased out to child me. I write about as quickl

American here, I learned cursive in school (what we call our “loop writing”) but it was clear it was going to be phased out to child me. I write about as quickly in block letters and can actually read the resulting words clearly, as opposed to my cursive which turns into a long line of m’s and l’s as I get faster. I find that slowing down to make the cursive legible takes longer than block lettering for my unpracticed hand, and have never needed it enough to justify additional practice. Both methods are about on par with phone typing or dictation, and far far slower than typing on a physical keyboard. I recently tried to switch back to a paper notebook because I found my phone was constantly distracting me when taking notes, but the loss of text search, ease of sharing/editing, and and speed when writing was too great so I abandoned this approach in favor of other methods for controlling distractions.