You won't go faster in a match by simply trying to go faster in a match, since you'll simply do only and exactly what you've trained yourself to do. To go faster in a match, "faster" has to be your new default, so you need to push yourself via dry fire and practice at the range with a par timer to make it your new deafult. Contrary to the cliche, slow may be smooth, but it ain't necessarily fast. There are plenty of dry fire and training manuals out there - maybe check out Ben Stoeger's books on
dry fire and
live fire.
Couple other points:
- IME, the sweet spot for accuracy is (was) around 10-12% - meaning that your time from points down added about 10-12% to your raw
*. Much lower than that, and you likely could have gone faster. Much higher than that and you were likely shooting beyond your control. I won my share in IDPA, and have never once won "Most Accurate". Those who win rarely do, though they tend to be fairly high on the accuracy ranking.
- Keep in mind that shooting/reloading fast and accurately is only part of going fast. Another (even bigger) is
moving fast and efficiently. Practicing fast and efficient movement pays big dividends and should be part of your practice session (at home via live fire and at the range).
At the range, you don't need to actually shoot a bunch to practice movement - shoot a round, move to position B and shoot another. Repeat. (a par timer greatly helps). People frequently and consistently lose time upon their arrival at point B because they arrive at point B not ready to shoot - the gun's down and not remotely pointed in the direction of the target, they're not looking at their feet instead of the target, etc. Practice arriving at Point B and breaking the shot
as soon as you see the target. I call this drill "Show Up and Shoot".
* Since IDPA went to 1 second per Point Down, the "10% Rule" might be more like "20%" now. Matter of fact, it's not very thorough, but I checked the scores for the top 6 SSP Masters at the 2016 Nats, and they averaged 26.5%.