Question for you three pedal guys...

filip00

Based on what you wrote here, I assume you started driving a manual this year.

Regardless of rev matching function, and regardless of speed, if you downshift into a lower gear while still high up in the revs and you let go off the clutch - you risk overreving the engine and doing permanent damage.
If you are just shifting in a gear and not releasing the clutch - nothing happens (with exception of potentially grinding synchro gears in the transmission).
If you are shifting in a gear with rev match turned on and again, not releasing the clutch - the ECU will try to match the revs, which it can't, because of the rev limiter and it will just hit it the limiter, nothing will happen unless you let go off the clutch.

Why and how you would "get lost in the gears" is unclear to me, but feel free to explain it.

SteveVQ

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danegrey

Lots of answers I just drive the Z, not concern about gears, actually when going through slow areas - cities I keep it in 5th. But I usually like shifting gears regardless of gas prices. Then again the Z is not the daily.

My daily is a Miata and I do short shift and change gears a lot, but mostly it is for having the right gear to pickup and go..

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abm89

I only really skip gears going down, not up. Rarely I will go from 3 to 5 on a downhill 35mph street.

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abm89

Yep it leans out the AFR when coasting.

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