My backstroke is faster than freestyle

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Or maybe I should say "my freestyle is slower than backstroke"... I learned backstroke the last (only recently) but it seems it is my fastest stroke now:rolleyes: (the other two being *** and free). My freestyle seems to be the slowest :eek: . I say "seems" because I didn't actually use a timer (so I can't tell how many seconds), but just according to my feeling. Fact is, it's actually hard for me to swim backstroke slowly. I can swim *** and free in idle pace, but not backstroke. I don't know whether I should be happy or unhappy about it. Backstroke, in any case, has become my favorite since I started to "get into" it. On the other hand, there is obviously something for me to do to speed up the free. I wonder if anyone has ever been in such a stage in your history of swimming?