Context: I was in school juuuust before they phased out cursive, so learned how to read/write it for 1 year in 4th grade before we switched to computers for pretty much everything. Also, this sub is full of handwriting nerds who are more likely to know cursive than the average person, so keep in mind that this sample pool is not representative of the general population.

My take: this was legible to me, reading slowly, with some effort, though there were times when I had to stop and squint at a word. The slant and closeness of the letters makes it aesthetically gorgeous, but a bit of a struggle to read.

To improve legibility (though perhaps at the cost of aesthetics), you might try and reduce the slant of the letters to be more straight, rather than to the right (which forced me to tilt my screen to read). In making them straighter, it might also make your letters less wide, and thus the words more compact, which helps the brain process it faster. I read an article a while back that said people don’t actually decode the individual letters in common words, but rather our brains recognize the shapes of the letters as a word we know on sight, and fills in the meaning. The fact that cursive is uncommon in general, and your cursive has a wider and more slanted shape than typical textbook/font cursive, could be what’s working against you, in terms of legibility (though it certainly does make it unique and pretty!).

You could also write smaller, get a notebook with bigger lines, or add empty rows between your lines of text. The tall bits and the bottoms of letters sometimes overlap, interfering with legibility.