Read organized a lengthy public testing phase of Shavian by some 500 users from around the world who spoke different dialects of English.

Once he had analyzed the results of those tests, Read decided to revise Shavian to incorporate a number of improvements to make it both easier and faster to write.

Senior Quikscript introduces a number of advanced techniques which save time in writing, namely ligatures, cursive, alternate letter forms, abbreviations and half-letters.

The design of the alphabet fosters these natural connections, as each Quikscript letter either begins or ends on the base line or the upper parallel.

Therefore, the portion of the vertical shafts of those letters which lies between the base line and upper parallel can be discarded with no effect to legibility.