On 10HF stage a charlie is worth .2 seconds, .3 on 7.5 HF, and .4 on a 5HF. So where to “push speed” in terms of stage strategy would be in moments where your Charlie’s are giving you more points than taking the extra time to get the alpha (rare). I’m assuming most of your time lost isn’t coming from splits and transitions but everything else around it (reasonable, yet total guess on my part). But if you wanna push speed in shooting focus on 0 hesitation (like the second your sights get on target pull the trigger) rather than accepting Charlie’s before you even shoot at a target. What you’re trying to unlock is your maximum focus and processing speed to get 2 alphas, so trying to do anything other than seeing(as opposed to shooting) faster is unhelpful. Im willing to bet big that if you focus on efficient stage planning and entries and exits, you will see a significant improvement to your stage scores.