I guess my question was more to do with passing on the highway. If I'm in 6th and I want to pass I'll drop it to 5th and go. Sometimes I don't even downshift depending on speed and RPMs. I guess downshifting more than one gear when trying to pass has to do with your cars powerband and gear ratios.theholycow wrote:I almost never sequentially downshift. I shift straight into whichever gear I want. There's no need to shift into any other gear on the way there. I do rev match, and often I DC.daleadbull wrote:I noticed that you do a lot of skip downshifting. Do you just go straight from 6 to 4 while rev matching? Does anyone else routinely skip downshift while rev matching?
(In practice, my current car's wide ratios mean the gear I want is usually the next gear, so I don't do a lot of block shifting in it, but in more common close ratio gearboxes I skip gears all the time, even sometimes on upshifts.)
I agree that if you want to downshift from 6th to 3rd or something like that, there's no point in going sequentially and that's when I skip gears as well.
But sometimes sequentially downshifting is fun, its extremely satisfying to hit multiple rev matched DS in a row!
On upshifts, I skip shift whenever I can. It helps with fuel economy.