Sorry to ask this, but how slow as a newbie are you? And how
fast you consider is fast enough?
My guess is that if you have collected 1.4 million pts, then you
must have played ID a lot more times than any newbie on the planet.
There got to be at least a course which you often played on to
collect this much pts. So...you must be already quite good on at
least a course.
If you want to go faster, why don't you post which courses you are
not fast enough and you might get better help this way. 
