Has anyone heard about Ola’s challenge?
I submitted mine and it was the worst one. I was so depressed I considered not submitting it, but in the end decided to. I’m hoping one day I’ll look back as a learning lesson.
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Four days in, and he reached a plateau with it. It’s nice to see the journey of someone who actually already is a seasoned musician albeit not a specialist of such picking patterns, and how they attempt to solve those problems. For once, I’d like if he doesn’t follow too quickly the advice of the comment section and check Cracking the Code… I’d like to see him struggle a little bit more and see what comes out of it. 
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One of my friends did a try at this and decided to change some of the notes in the ending part of the run since musically he wasn’t keen on it:
How fast is too fast to be useful?
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fast enough for me to get more depressed than I already am 
I say that’s about fast enough haha. And it gets difficult to discern which note is which, at least to my ears. In a sense then, I can’t hear that fast
How fast is too fast?
So around 20 notes per second, the lower limit of the human ear’s bandwidth. In reality we don’t really start hearing pitches at 20Hz, but it’s around where the perception of pitch starts. In musical terms, that’s 16th notes at 300BPM (300*4/60) And if John Taylor’s anything to go by, the ability to do this on the guitar is quite uncommon, if not outright rare.