Hi Nick, I watched the video you linked to here:

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c58bN6ajJ4

And yes, it is cool that the speed of the marking menu is greater, but note that the greatest speed increase shown in that video is when the menu wasn't displayed at all and just a shorthand gesture was used.

That requires a significant amount of memorization and repetition to get to that level, so that particular thing is only going to benefit a relatively smaller group of users who sort of train themselves up to that level of proficiency.

It's certainly a valid strategy to structure the UI to primarily benefit those kinds of advanced users, but it's not really the strategy that MoI is oriented on.

- Michael