Yes, a little. I just finished a hit with someone who went clear to the full $1 (thank you human, I love you!) and I think we did an awesome job because I finally figured out that when answering a question, make it easy to ask a next, logical question.
With as good as this person also was, the timer got down to about 2 seconds before s/he submitted one question and I could see why there was a struggle there.
In my earlier one I was trying to edit what was naturally a long answer, and I wanted to edit out some "extra" stuff that didn't need to be there, and got down to about five seconds left and was sweating it hard.
So maybe add another 15-20 seconds just so we aren't super rushing? We don't have to use the time if we don't need it, and I think many of us are getting a lot faster with this and know how to do the hit to make a natural, quick conversation.