HazardsMind:
Sorry about that I kinda figured it would work being that arduino has port manipulation. I thought it would be able to read and write to multiple pins that way, but NO. Yea go with normal method of just getting the data from one at a time.It should be made into a new feature. It would be so much easier access multiple pins, if it were possible.
It is possible to read and write to multiple ports simultaneously, but it requires direct access to the port registers rather than inventing a new language syntax. When you access the port registers directly you lose the benefits of the high level functions provided by Arduino, so it's the sort of thing you only want to do when really necessary. Trying to detect very small timing differences between inputs on different pins might be one of those situations where it was necessary.