If you don't know how to write cursive, then how

[SheilaT]

57. Writing in cursive is not always faster than typing on a computer, not by a long shot.

I type a steady 60 plus words per minute and can sustain that speed for quite a while. I've never tested myself on my cursive speed, but it's easily much less than half of my typing speed. Plus hand-writing is more tiring.

I don't think actual touch typing is taught anymore, so if you have to look at the keyboard to find the keys, you can only go so fast.

I do agree that cursive should be taught. My mother (born in 1916) was taught cursive when she first started school as a child, and didn't learn to print until she became a nurse in the late 1930's. Her handwriting was a very legible cross between cursive and print. It was great get a letter from her.

But cursive is much faster than printing, and studies have shown something I long suspected, that a person who takes notes by hand remembers things much better than someone who takes notes on a keyboard.

My signature has evolved over the years. Legibility isn't necessary. However, I did recently go back from the scribble mine had turned into, back to the legible version of my name.