Got most accurate again today despite my efforts to speed up....fun but I don't feel I'm really progressing.
Tough love time, bud.*
Saying "I got most accurate" is like laying down your cards in a poker hand and declaring "all reds."
That's not the game anyone else was playing.
At most action pistol matches, it's a safe bet that the top half of the field could make every single shot on the course on a 1-for-1 basis (with the possible exception of maybe some movers or
weak hand only shots)
if time were not a factor. Nobody is impressed by someone who is shooting at a very deliberate pace cleaning a stage. Most of us can do that. What is hard is making those shots
fast. That's the game.
Maybe a baseball analogy will help. No batter wants to strike out. A strikeout is not a good discrete result at all. However, at any serious level of competition, the best batter in the league is
NEVER, EVER the guy who strikes out the least. That's because, in baseball, there's something of an inverse correlation between swinging hard and making contact. Babe Ruth set all kinds of records for strikeouts when he was the first batter in history swinging hard enough to regularly hit the ball over the fence. Babe Ruth could have struck out much, much less if he had shortened up his swing and tried to just poke the ball around... and he wouldn't have been half as good as he was.
Learning to go fast in shooting is like swinging hard in baseball or golf. There will be some bad results. But taking little patty-cake swings and consoling yourself with "I didn't strike out" while you get thrown out at first is pure ego protection. Meanwhile, the guys who are running the risk of strikeouts are hitting line drives and home runs. Bunting little 190 yard drives down the center of the fairway isn't going to get you on the high school golf team, much less get you a tour card. While you're being "congratulated" with the consolation prize of hitting every fairway, the other golfers are trying to get the ball in the hole in the fewest strokes possible... and they're better off 100 yards closer, even if it's out of the rough.
You need to decide what game you're playing, and then leave the ego protection behind.
*Disclaimer: I'm coming from a USPSA, not IDPA, background. I acknowledge that USPSA is even more speed-focused than IDPA.