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For at least some people, K&R just "clicks". It's written in a way that is crystal clear (to at least some people).

In my case, I read K&R over a Thanksgiving weekend, and I understood all of it[1], even without a compiler to try things out on.

[1] Except for passing command-line arguments into a program (argc and argv). Couldn't understand that one without experimental results.

You read it in three days? Did you skip all the exercises or did it not have any?

I don't recall whether it had exercises. If it did, obviously I skipped them, because I didn't have a compiler.

K&R C definitely has exercises (solutions available at <https://clc-wiki.net/wiki/K%26R2_solutions>) - final one of chapter 1 is write bracket matcher