Yes, and yes. No need to "line up," just trigger-through. Personally, I don't subscribe to this method, but it has been taught in revolver-specific combat courses that I've attended as taught by widely-recognized revolver and training experts. More specifically, they teach skip-spacing rounds on the speed strip for a "hammer grip" on the speed strip. I don't use speed strips anymore, but when I did, I preferred to use an index finger on the back of the speed strip, but there are differing opinions about this.
In revolver combat nowadays, 5-shots are a lot more popular than 7, and in present-day context, teaching the loading of 4 is not uncommon at all. The idea is that the extra time for the single 5th round isn't worth it. Again, I don't really subscribe to this personally. I use moon-clips, but clips aren't relevant to the original question.
You'll want me to drop names no doubt. Grant Cunningham specifically teaches the 4-round skip-spaced speed strip reload. So does Claude Werner. If those guys aren't revolver enough, Scott Reitz will show you his LAPD-issue metal speed strips from back in the day before the plastic Bianchi ones. He also teaches partial and "tactical" reloads on revolvers.
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