He blankly stared at his unwitting friend and took several minutes repeating back every word that his friend had said in much shorter a time. He sat there repeatedly trying to match his quiet friend's speed, only to be beaten over and over again. Speak, speak back, speak, speak back again. He wanted to be the best in this craft of saying what had already been said, thought, or heard. So he spent hour after hour in frenzied attempts to tap out what took his friend mere milliseconds to display.