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Not if you don't process the information in the same way.
Humans have faster tactile reflexes than visual; you can respond more quickly to a movement that you can feel than to one that you can only see. A person might be able to perform chi sao very quickly, but not be able to respond to attacks of the same speed when they're not in contact with the assailant.
Similarly, I'm pretty sure that I can process written words at a speed at which spoken words would be pure gibberish.
I said suggests, not proves. The point of the word "suggests" is precisely to acknowledge compactly that one can easily raise objections such as the one you raised.
You seem to be referring to speeds at which the phonemes become indistinguishable. But that doesn't happen at double speed, which is what I was talking about. Nor is that the pitfall we were talking about, because the pitfall was that certain content rich texts might be too hard to comprehend at double speed. Rich content isn't a fact about the phonemes.