My dd is 7 1//2 and has been playing for almost exactly a year now. She's started on some easy Beethoven and Mozart now that I didn't play until I was in about 7th grade and had been playing for 5 years. So I think she's moving along really quickly, especially in the last couple of months.

But she's a whiz at memorizing and that's mostly how she plays. Note reading is really difficult for her, and she still has to think about what each note is. She read books at age 3 1/2. How strange is that?