How does recall speed change as you practise the method?

It gets dramatically faster — encoding and walking that feel slow and clumsy at first become near-instant with reps.

Beginners spend seconds per locus inventing and placing an image; trained users flick through a route almost as fast as they can talk. Nothing about the method changes — it's the same route and rules — but the sub-skills (turning items into images, staging interactions, decoding on the walk) automate with practice, exactly like reading or touch-typing. Expect early slowness and don't mistake it for the method failing.