Duane,?
I noticed a delay too, and I think it is caused by the code in sendElements() always adding a character space after sending a string. This delay depends on speed settings, so not everyone will see 3 seconds.
For some reason I didn't notice the problem when using the alternate scoring method, you get there by holding the select button down long. It may be that I'm just a lot slower when only hearing the characters, so the issue is not as noticable when I also see the characters.?
I changed the code to omit the character space in the send practices (the 'mimic1()' path), you can look at my to see how I did that, look for the sendStringNoWait() function, and the parameter added to sendCharacter() and sendElements().
I have the ESP32, so only updated that .ino, but I also have other changes in that repo you may not be interested in (rss reading).?
Erik - N2EPE