Quite honestly, I don't think you even need to be gifted at all to go through curriculum faster when homeschooling? You have all that "extra" time to learn that in a traditional school setting would be spent on non-productive activities like settling down, explaining instructions to the whole class over and over, waiting for the slower classmates, covering the same topics repeatedly, etc. So even without giftedness coming into place, you get more done in the same time period homeschooling that at a brick & mortar school. Not that I have any experience with it yet, I'm just using my logic smile