From reading posts here I get the sense that shaving with a straight takes a bit longer then shaving with a double edge does. Now my straight is away getting sharpened by Lynn Abrams at the moment, :cry: so I am not able to verify the statmenets myself. It will generally take me approximatly five minutes to get a proper double edge shave, but again I have been doing the double edge for years and have that one down to a sicence.:D