Sure, the current paradigm is that it should take you an hour to take the case and 5 more to find the remedy. I suggest you have not evaluated the symptoms properly and given everything the same consideration, which you have been taught to do. But when a person walks in the door, the way he walks, greets and sits down afterwards can tell you the whole case at a glance. So to save yourself time, you need to learn the essence of a case. What is the main complaint - and that could easily become a secondary considereation - and what are the salient features about this person. And the paersonality leads you to the remedy very fast. You may have seen my post on Actea racemosa and seen that I say things you do not find in books - you find it in the characters of the remedies and the people. So the Sulphur is the 'mad genius' -if often only in his own eyes - and the phosphorus is the clown, the irresponsible narr, who jokes anout everything. Staph is the resentful person and you may know a lot more of such generalisations. But after some time, you begin to recognise the different types and you see the underlying constitution - or at least the layer underneath. That is when you notice that homoeoapthy is actually very easy. But it does not become easy, till you master case taking and recognition of peronality types - i.e. between 5 to 10 years and if you have the talent of the artist.