Yeah and programmers with medium talking speed are the worst!!

I recall reading in Susan Cain's book Quiet that people tend to judge fast-talkers as being more intelligent than their slower talking colleagues.

It's not actually true though, but it's how people are perceived.

I can't remember where she got the information from but if you really wanted to you could probably find that out. :)

Being able to stream-of-consciousness is good, but being able to preprocess is also good.