I often use my gears to slow down and will sometimes go from 5th to 3rd then 2nd. I tend to use all the gears in their proper order for accelerating, that is because I shift early and need the next closes gear to keep in sync.
If you were to drive using high rpm's to shift you could easily skip a gear ..
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