ORD Keyboard input / popup menu speed

This is a CONNECT / OpenRoads Designer question.  Is there a way to speed up / reduce the lag of the popup menus?

I'm a keyboard input kinda person.  I can't stand clicking buttons.  Takes to long.  In V8i I memorized all the standard commands and most 2D drawing command shortcuts.  (ie Q1 was smart line.  Q46 was 'Place point on line at distance'.  31 is copy element.  etc...).   As far as I can tell, this does not exist in CONNECT (unless you're in the task navigation workflow).

So, I recreated it myself.  Best way I found to do this was to put it into the quick access popup menu (spacebar).  I completely overrode the menus that are baked in and put all the number hot keys in as well as all the basic drawing commands.  So now the above command examples become SpaceQ1, SpaceQ46, Space31, etc...  Not ideal, but it's better then nothing.

The lag between hitting space and the menu popping up is super frustrating.  Then there is a smaller lag between loading the next sub element.  So the above examples become Space [LAG] Q [lag] 1, Space [LAG] Q [lag] 4  6, Space [LAG] 3 [LAG] 1, etc...

If I type it in to fast, it locks up and doesn't allow keyboard input and I have to back out of those menus (by clicking).

What this amounts to, is spending significantly longer on basic drawing because the lag causes me to not only miss entering commands, but I then have to back out and try again. 

Here's my question.  Is there a way to decrease the lag on the popups, or is there another way to accomplish this that has less lag?  (Ideally I'd like to get back to how I did it in V8i)

Thanks in advance.