After a few years working in a pro studio I thought I waps pretty shit hot on pro tools. The clients were usually impressed. Then a pro post production guy from Disney in L.A. Came through and made me feel like a rank amateur. He knew pro tools like Petrucci knows guitar. Just with his knowledge of keyboard shortcuts and machine gun typing skills he set up a complex project in 30 seconds with all the tracks named, multiple plugins in place, inputs and outputs assigned, reverb on a bus... Would take me 5 minutes to get to that point.
To his credit, he was pretty cool about it. When I told him I was impressed by what I just witnessed he laughed and said "well I do spend 8 hours a day doing exactly that, so I would hope I get fast and efficient at it".
