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The transmission does not have any magic in it that knows if you skip any gears, upshifting or down.
You can skip from any gear to any other gear if you know what you are doing.
caveat: I essentially never downshift to first ever, unless stopped, just an old habit.
If I am passing someone, I might wind it out in third or fourth, then just drop to 6th and coast back to the speed limit.
Or when I am coasting to a stop, I might leave it in a high gear all the way down to 1000 RPM, then slip out into neutral, and choose to coast to a stop, or pick 2nd or 3rd if the light changes and I need to go again.
If you make the bigger jumps slowly (letting the synchros work) or rev match, you are not being hard on the tranny.
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