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I only ever used it when I was forced to in high school. Once college preferred "typed out" assignments, I pretty much stopped using it entirely. I defaulted back to print writing for my own notes and stuff.

Now it's been like 27 years. At this point I've almost certainly forgotten a bunch of letters (mainly the capital versions of less-commonly used letters), and would have a hard time writing anything in full script.

Not that I feel like that's a deficiency. Cursive's almost entirely obsolete and pointless now anyway (and has been for a while), and plenty of schools have stopped teaching it entirely. So it feels like 50 years from now almost no one is going to know how to write it. Way better to use the time usually wasted on teaching it to teach kids to do something more useful instead.



Tutoria posted...

it was all i was allowed to use in school and its ingrained into me, i cant write non cursive without being really slow about it

I always kind of laugh when people say "Well, you should use cursive because you write faster!" as a reason to justify its use, because I always wrote in print way faster than I ever did in script.

Same thing with touch-typing versus hunt-and-peck. I tend to type faster with two fingers than most people can with all of them, and when I try to switch to touch type my writing speed always slows to a glacial crawl.

It's mainly just a question of what you're most used to doing. You'll almost always be faster using the method you're more comfortable with than you will the alternative. So you're usually better sticking to what you're already good at and not trying to switch just because other people tell you the other way is better.