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On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 13:19:17 -0500, wrote:

To me it seems a bit longer. The biggest thing is that it's intolerant of removing your card too soon. I'd think that once it reads the chip, and that should take less than a second, it would be done with your card. That's seemingly not the case.

ditto, but I've never timed it.

You would need to use a lot of samples to know much because network
traffic will make a difference on both of them, It gets a lot slower
when a lot of people are shopping ... like now.

I did a few today and it seemed about as fast as the swipe as long as
you get your card in while they are still ringing stuff up and the
clerk is doing their job. I suspect it doesn't actually read the card
until it says "authorizing" tho and it might be writing some
transaction info out there when it was done.
I really miss being on the other side of this interface where I knew
what was going on.