Efficiency Question - Cutting Clips

Efficiency Question - Cutting Clips.
So I was wondering if there is a better way to cut my clips that I am not using. Basically I often have large long clips of raw footage that I cut down to the usable segments. Each raw file may be over an hour long and have 100s of small segments of live commentary, often I find I am cutting out slightly to long pauses in the talking and other stuff before I have a clip ready to send to the main edit.
Anyway, often I am zoomed will in so I can edit, and I press C, make a cut.. then make another a bit further up, press V, click on the segment I just cut out.. press delete and then click on and move the rest of the raw clip to the left to bump up where I made the first cut, often needing to zoom well out and then back in again to continue editing.
Is there a better way to do this? So I do not need to zoom in and out all the time... is there a way to delete a chunk of video form the sequence and have the clip automatically "close the gap" for me?
--Thanks

I would take the Source Clip into the Source Monitor.
Mark an In Point ("I") where the good content starts...and an Out Point ("O") where the good content stops.
Hit "," to Insert it to the Sequence.
Back to Source Monitor and repeat for the next section of good content in the same Source Clip..
No gaps . Done
Then ..if necessary...I would play thru the Sequence and do Trim Edits at the editpoints.
Many different ways to "skin the cat" at Trim stage.
Alternatively in the first part:
I would take the Source Clip into the Source Monitor.
Mark an In Point ("I") where the good content starts...and an Out Point ("O") where the good content stops.
CTRL-Drag to the Program Monitor.

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