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I can't really say off the top of my head, so I'll just list the scripts I know with how well I can read them. By the way, I use the definition of script that takes it to be a base character set together with any extensions used for different languages, such as borrowed, derived, invented letters or letters with added diacritic marks.
Latin (best known; ease of reading depends on the language, depending on whether I know it well enough to pick up on the spelling rules (cf. Irish, Gaelic) or the clues that help to parse the words into stress groups etc. as in Finnish, Hungarian, Basque.)
Greek (fairly well) Cyrillic (quite easily) Arabic (fairly well, but with some difficulty for non-Arabic languages such as Urdu, Malay) Hebrew (slowly, basically deciphering with some difficulty, whether for Hebrew, Yiddish or other Jewish languages) Gujarati (fairly well) Devanagari (fairly well) Kaithi Baybayin (Old Philippine script group, fairly well, hampered by poor knowledge of Tagalog) (Greater difficulty with modern Kapampangan "Kulitan" conscript, which is a moving target because of the continual innovations being added) Bugis-Makassarese "Lontara" (with difficulty since I know next to nothing of the languages and like Baybayin, they don't spell coda consonants) Makassarese "Jangang-jangang" ("Bird script": with difficulty since I know next to no Makassarese) South Sumatran "surat ulu"/"rencong"/"kagana", Lampung (relatively slowly since I don't know enough Malay and essentially no Rejang or Lampung) Batak scripts (relatively well since it spells words fairly clearly if obtusely, but without understanding) Kawi/Old Javanese (fairly well, though I need to look up subjunct consonants) Modern Javanese/Balinese (same as for Kawi) Burmese (with some effort, less easily than the Javanese group scripts) Inuktitut syllabics (easily, but like Finnish, the words tend to be quite run on) Cree syllabics (easily, if the eastern version—and like Inuktitut, you can get some long, morphologically complex words—but the Western version, with its special symbols for coda consonants instead of simple raised and smaller versions of ordinary consonant letters, is harder) Brahmi (fairly well, if slowly) Safaitic, Hismaic (with some difficulty: I haven't yet learned all the variant letter shapes so I get confused easily)
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