text: thoughts about speed mathematics, speed reading, perfect pitch.? genius? practice? attainable? gift of birth?  what do these mean to you?   no teen self proclaimed genius bragging. i want to hear logic and methodology. these are just my opinions.  speed mathematics - i think it's something you are born with. can you practice and get faster? yes, but never to the level of the geniuses that are born with it.   speed reading - learned. i think that there are some people who are more apt at this kind of thing then others, but i think it's learned.  perfect pitch - definitely you are born with it. there is no learning perfect pitch (and that i know for a fact as i was a music major in college). you can learn to recognize and sing pitches that you want, but when you do, it is then called relative pitch.