Is it possible to make the double-tap gesture go faster to dismiss a notification?

I like the wrist-flick gesture to dismiss a notification, but I more often use the double-tap gesture so that way it doesn't show up in my Notification Center, but when using double-tap to dismiss a notification, it takes a really long time from me doing the gesture, to recognizing it, to starting the animation, to then actually pressing the button that I want it to press. This also happens and annoys me more when trying to pause an audio app quickly, and it ends up taking like 3 seconds to do so