I have these wide pickups on my guitar aprox, 2 1/2"x1 1/2" and I have been able get more speed by raising my pickup hight to aprox 1/8" below my strings
and then use the top of the pichup as a stop for the tip of my pick, essentially "dragging" my pick along the top of my pickup. This seems so easy that it's almost like cheating. Am I the only one who does this?

If you've got your hand properly anchored and stable, then you shouldn't need to do that. But I guess it's down to personal taste; I personally find it annoying as hell when my pick drags across pickups (for example on most Ibanez guitars).

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Hence my hatred of Mid pickups..can't stand them,always in the way.

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I can't stand mid pickups either, but do whatever works.

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Bugs the piss outa me when I hit my pickups. But as CW says, whatever works I guess...

Doesn't make a bit of difference for me; I pick above the neck pickup.

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well, on my strat, I usually pick(and strum) in between the bridge and middle pickup.

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