WIY: The majority of Gedolim now (or ever) probably couldn’t do a pin test. It takes a certain type of memory. You can recite Shas word for word but still fail a pin test. You can ace a pin test and barely read Hebrew. Brony and Popa are both rightly saying (though probably for different reasons) that knowing where every word on the page is is in and of itself inherently meaningless. Nor should it be a yardstick that we measure Gedolim by. Some can do it; some can’t. It doesn’t make the ones that can do it greater than the ones that can’t.
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