I think the usual recommendation is before meals, two hours after meals and before going to bed. So that was 7 times a day for me. The big problem with testing more times is that you are literally damaging your fingers and hoping that they heal before you need to use that area on your finger again. For me this didn't always happen and is one of the reasons I love my FreeStyle Libre.

I do what works best. Typical is not my concern.

A glucometer test takes 20 seconds, total.

I would say it is quite high, I've never been recommended to measure that much even