I think cursive handwriting is faster when mastered to the degree that a literate person in the pre-typewriter, pre-computer age would master it, but in this day and age, it is probably as hard to find a master of cursive writing as it is to find a master of tracking. We're hobbyists by comparison, and hobbyist-level cursive writing is worthless.

Cursive's death is widely accepted now. Even after cursive became obsolete, there was a time when people really aspired to have a beautiful, flowing hand. No more. My girlfriend's daughter writes a beautiful, extremely slow cursive script for her homework assignments and illegible chicken scratch for all her practical purposes. She's a serious and studious kid, but she already realizes (five years earlier than I did) that cursive script will never have any practical value for her.