Tap to drag select by whole words using the Trackpad!

I figured out that there is an easy way to drag select by whole words using the Trackpad... just put your mouse over the word you want to start the selection from and ...
tap, pause, tap, tap
... or another way to say it might be ...
tap, double tap
I find this method almost 100% reliable, it's effortless to get the timing right.
Being able to do this now removes the only thing that I've missed about a mouse since switching to the trackpad.
Yay!

On the trackpad, after double tapping to select a word, you cannot drag to continue selecting more words. And if you triple tap, it selects the entire paragraph. If you double tap to select a word, pause and tap-drag, the selection doesn't change with your dragging. If you double tap to select a word, pause, and double-tap-drag, it starts a drag/drop operation using the original selection.
The method I described allows you to accomplish with a trackpad, the operation that mouse users take for granted - double click/drag to select a word and drag to select more words.
As far as I know, the technique I posted at the top is not widely known. At least I didn't turn up anything with my google searching and have used this trackpad for almost a year without knowing about this trick.
FYI - my trackpad "Point & Click" settings are:
tap to click
secondary click is tap with two fingers
3 finger drag disabled

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