Feathercoin has very fast confirmations and a decent profitability selling/buying trough the forum. There was no premine and you dont need huge rigs to get some coins.
I can suggest these pools, prompt and precise payments :
http://mine.altpool.com/ and
http://fc.dontmine.me/index.
Going off topic; but how much faster? Someone replied its 4 times; but then confirmed its not. In anycase IMO; unless we have a coin which confirms in less than a minute, its not much of a difference (or maybe it is - I get excited when my PC boot up time reduced by 15s when switching to Windows 7)
And yeah, I have been using altpool with my trusty CPU. May cross the 60 coins barrier tomorrow
