As a miner, I started mining a node, and after the first swing, another player came by and started mining in the same area. I was clicking the item I wanted the moment it became available, mining as fast as I could, yet somehow the other guy finished before me and ran off while I was still on my last swing.

Is there some kind of trick to harvesting nodes really quick, was that lag I just saw, or was that a bot? This is really boggling my mind right now and I need to know.