My high school senior nephew cannot read or write cursive

[Mariana]

112. It's faster for some people, not for others.

Most of us who learned cursive learned it in 2nd or 3rd grade, and then we were required to write in cursive for years and years. OF COURSE cursive was faster, we had so much more practice doing it!

I abandoned cursive by high school. My lettering was and is so much faster, neater, and easier to read. I read cursive well, though. I do genealogy and read lots of very old documents.

Interestingly, many of the wills and such were obviously dictated and written by someone else. The handwriting doesn't match the signature at all, or they were signed with a mark. The opposite may be done in the future. People who can't read cursive, and who can't be bothered to learn, will hire someone to read old documents for them, the same way people in the past hired someone to write them.