@Tinker: Eh, you tell me. XD The only way I sped up is when I decided to stop chasing every possible advantage I could squeeze and just play what comes naturally only playing attention to a number of things at a time. Watching any of my vids you could have a drinking game - take a shot every time Lujo missess something obvious/gameswinging/spectacularly missplays something, except everyone'd end up in the hospital. (Game's overloaded with useful things, sometimes I think it really could use more shop cloggers and chaff XD).
But there's a nice takeaway for you from the fact that I get stuff done in half the time with not significantly worse results, concerning the debates we've had lately. Might be you're trying to squeeze the map/build/whatever for more than is really necessary. Not that it's not fun and satisfying, but it is a bit of a factor when defining "viable" or "optimal" and stuff. Ties in with my talks of "such and such is more for cool victory screens than anything".
But sorry about this sidetrack, it's supposed to be a thread about different things. As usual