Thoughts on top roping w Soloist

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Finally got out yesterday to experiment with my new Soloist on a top rope climb. I found that it generally worked as expected however I was surprised at how much rope drag there was though. I tried securing the rope at the bottom of the climb. Also slung the rope over my shoulder which seemed to help with rope feed as I ascended, but still had to manually pull the rope through the device at times which was unhelpful. Does anyone have any alternative set ups that have worked for them? Note that I did try letting the rope hang directly off the side of the top of the device connected to chest harness, but it caused the orientation of the device to tilt sideways which wasn't acceptable.

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I take the excess rope at the ground (toproping) and either coil it, or put it in the rope bag, and let it hang a couple feet off the ground, I find it to be just enough weight to help feed it through.