Two things should matter, the number of symbols needed to represent the sounds,

and the shapes of those symbols.

Using that matrix, Persian is much faster to write than English. In Persian, as in Arabic,
there is no written symbol for short vowels. For example, the word for ‘pen’ [qalam] is
written with three symbols: q-l-m. Also, the letters themselves are fluid, the ‘r’ is just
one slanted stroke [ ‫] ر‬, vs the strokes we have to write in English. To write the non-
word ‘sar’ in Persian, you need two connecting strokes [‫( ]سر‬the first letter has no
ridges in handwriting), whereas the same sound sequence in English needs 3 letters
and lots of up and down strokes.

So, of course, if I’m taking notes on a lecture in Persian, I’m going to be using a lot less
letters and strokes than when I’m taking notes in English.

Other issues that slow down English writing is the lack of a single symbol for several
sounds: for ex. ‘sh’ and ‘ch’ (as well as ‘th’) are denoted by a single letter in many
languages whereas we use two letters to represent these sounds. Many languages are
also more phonetic than English. Look at how many additional letters are in the words
‘knight’ (which is really three sounds: n-ay-t) and ‘thought’ (also three sounds: th-aw-t).

Obviously everyone answers from their own limited experience.

And here's mine:

Being fluent in English and Arabic and knowing a little about many other West
European and Easy Asian languages.

I see that Arabic alphabet is the least letters per word, and it in its cursive writing
“req'a" is the fastest in strokes per characters.

And Arabic, among Semitic languages in general, are probably the fastest in words per
meaning, while very rich in vocabulary and structures.

For example, look at the above picture, it's the “Req'a" shape of the following sentence:

» ‫« وما أوتيتم من العلم إال قليال‬

Translation:

“And what you have been given of knowledge but a few.”

Transliteration:

“wa-mā ooteetom mina al-àelmi illā qaleelā”

And it can be minimalist even more by discarding all points and glottal marks to be:

« ‫» وما اوىىىم مں العلم اال ٯلىال‬

And it would be easily readable by any educated person.

And the the opposite example: here is the transliteration of this topic question in
Arabic letters:

“Which language is fastest for handwriting?”

» ‫« ِو تش النگِو ج از َذ فاسِتست ُفر هاْن دَر يِتنگ‬

You can copy that to Google's translator to read it out.

And here's is how is written in perfect cursive Arabic:

I am looking forward for replies and follow-ups.

For me when it comes to writing, the fastest to slowest scripts are as follows:

1. English: fastest
No diacritical marks. No nothing. Just go on writing the letters.

2. Tamil: All letters in single line. Simple letters. Simple diacritical marks. No joint
letters also.

3. Malayalam: Most of the letters are simple except a few. Diacritical marks are also
simple.

4. Gujarati: Simple letters and diacritical marks. The top horizontal line present in
Devanagari is absent.

5. Kannada/Telugu: Difficulty level increases. Letters are round. Diacritical marks are
on top and side. Joint letters. Ottaksharas are written below the letters also.
6. Devanagari (Marathi/Hindi) : Still more difficult. Some letters consist of straight
lines. Some are a bit round. Diacritical marks on top, bottom, side. Same in case of joint
letters. Horizontal line on top of each word.

7. Bangla: Triangular shaped letters. Joint letters are a bit different from actual single
letters. Diacritical marks on top, bottom and side and horizontal line on top of words
just like Devanagari.

This is entirely my viewpoint. Not applicable for all.

Handwriting speed in a given language is based on a few things. First is average

character count per word. The more character’s you need to write per word, the slower
your handwriting speed will be.

This makes a lot of dialects originating from Asia seem like strong contenders.

However, writing speed is also influenced by character complexity. The simpler the
shapes in hand writing, the better, as these shapes can be drawn more quickly.

This makes a lot of western dialect’s strong contenders.

The final part is how often are wasted hand movements needed. This is a big factor as
well. Basically, every time your pen leaves the paper, that’s time not writing a character.
So a writing method that results in maximum time with pen on paper will naturally be
advantageous.

This means any language that is compatible with script style writing is going to have a
massive advantage, since a word is written with only a single pen stroke.

Because of this, western languages with short average letter per word counts are the
top candidates for fastest handwriting. So despite the short letter per word count of
many Asian dialects, you will achieve faster average writing out of European languages.

English, Spanish, and French would all be the major contenders for the fastest hand
written language.

I’d argue in that case that arabic/urdu scripts would be faster than any latin alphabet
language, and certainly faster than english which has a lot of superflous letters in relation to
sounds/words (compare cof-cough bow-bough, tuf -tough knight and night to nite, knit to
nit.)
https://magiclinkhandwriting.com/abolish-the-lead-in-or-entry-stroke/

https://www.quora.com/How-does-one-learn-to-have-both-fast-and-legible-
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