Your Own Tagging Speed: Variable, although I tend to think my speed is more on the medium to slowish side. I do play a lot of characters which may make it seem like I'm tagging a lot slower then I am.
Active Times: Consistently around 9pm-12am CST (-06:00 GMT) and I'm usually off weekends. Sometimes I sneak tags in at work and sometimes I manage to get going earlier at night. When I'm working though, I won't be home before 7pm CST so don't really expect steady tags after that unless I have a rare day off. Some nights I just don't have a head for RP either or I just work super late which leaves little to no time for more then a handful of tags. Things should be good this summer though at least!
Backtag?: Yes! I thrive off of backtags and I'll usually keep going back about a month or so, more if I'm really interested in teh thread still or we've been pretty steady with the tag backs. I think the longest I've backtagged a single thread was 2.5 months and that was to completion.
Does the other tagger's tagging speed matter to you?: Sometimes. If I'm drowning in tags, I'll tend to put the fastest taggers at the bottom of my list for that character only because I'm trying to get to all my outstanding tags at least once. Generally, I'll keep tagging a character until I'm all caught up and then switch to another, so if I get tagged back while working on that character, more then likely you'll get another one and hence why the fastest taggers go at the bottom. If I did them first, I'd never tag anything that night but that single character ^^;
Is there a process to how you answer tags/posts? For posts, I have a tendency to start out top to bottom when I first post but if I leave the post and come back to it later, I almost always work at threads from bottom to top to make sure I'm getting people who tagged in late first on the off chance I don't make it all the way through a list (especially applies to Dean/Jen posts which can sometimes get a ton of threads going). I try really hard to make sure I get everyone to 8 tags in a thread so those that have progressed pretty far might start to see me slowing down/taking a few extra days to get to.
Tag-wise, I've already mentioned it briefly in the above, but I go by character until I run out of tags and then switch and repeat. If I'm not getting swamped with people tagging me back, I'll take a moment between each character and do another round of tag backs on all the characters I just did and then move on to a new one. Unfortunately, sometimes this means I only get to 3 or 4 characters in a night, especially if I have active posts up already.
Misc Comments: ahahah... I'm just going to slink away now ^^