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The phrase "a whole second faster" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the speed of two things, indicating that one is significantly quicker than the other by a full second.
Example: "After upgrading the software, the new version runs a whole second faster than the previous one."
Alternatives: "a full second quicker" or "one entire second faster".
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In our completely unscientific testing of start-up times (recording each app starting up 3 times, timing how long it took for them to fully load after the icon was tapped, then calculating the average), GV Mobile started up nearly a whole second faster than VoiceCentral, coming in at 3.7 seconds and 4.6 seconds respectively.
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Lochte was only three-hundredths of a second faster.
And because job growth in and around New York City continued at a white-hot pace last year, employment in New York State as a whole grew faster than the national average for the first time since 1983, state officials said yesterday.
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One is that computers have got a whole lot faster.
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When you come down, you come down a whole lot faster".
Tastemade, however, wants to grow a whole lot faster.
Charles Darwin found they moved a whole lot faster than he'd imagined.
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