[ThomPete]

"All numbers aside, I’m also feeling a vast improvement while playing piano. Instead of reading each note separately, I’m seeing patterns (within each chord) and distances which really astonished me. Of course, there is still room for improvement and I’m looking forward to the challenge."

Thats what we do when we learn to read anything. You don't read the individual characters but rather the entire words or even parts of sentences.

But he is right that it's cool.