diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 822629a4..2f47754d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 ## Unreleased
 
 - OpenapiFirst will now cache the contents of files that have been loaded. If you need to reload your OpenAPI definition for tests or server hot reloading, you can call `OpenapiFirst.clear_cache!`.
-
+- Optimized `OpenapiFirst::Router#match` for faster path matching and reduced memory allocation.
+- 
 ## 3.2.1
 
 - Don't raise `UnknownQueryParameterError` if request is ignored in tests. Fixes [#441](https://github.com/ahx/openapi_first/issues/441).
diff --git a/lib/openapi_first/router.rb b/lib/openapi_first/router.rb
index 5f7189fc..d31de3e1 100644
--- a/lib/openapi_first/router.rb
+++ b/lib/openapi_first/router.rb
@@ -97,15 +97,15 @@ def find_path_item(request_path)
       found = @static[request_path]
       return [found, {}] if found
 
-      matches = @dynamic.filter_map do |_path, path_item|
+      @dynamic.each_value.reduce(nil) do |best, path_item|
         params = path_item[:template].match(request_path)
-        next unless params
+        next best unless params
 
-        [path_item, params]
-      end
-      return matches.first if matches.length == 1
+        candidate = [path_item, params]
+        next candidate unless best
 
-      matches&.min_by { |match| match[1].values.sum(&:length) }
+        params.values.sum(&:length) < best[1].values.sum(&:length) ? candidate : best
+      end
     end
   end
 end
diff --git a/lib/openapi_first/router/find_content.rb b/lib/openapi_first/router/find_content.rb
index 04ab42fb..0349dfa9 100644
--- a/lib/openapi_first/router/find_content.rb
+++ b/lib/openapi_first/router/find_content.rb
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ def self.call(contents, content_type)
         return contents[nil] if content_type.nil? || content_type.empty?
 
         contents.fetch(content_type) do
-          type = content_type.split(';')[0]
-          contents[type] || contents["#{type.split('/')[0]}/*"] || contents['*/*'] || contents[nil]
+          semi = content_type.index(';')
+          type = semi ? content_type[0, semi] : content_type
+          slash = type.index('/') || type.length
+          contents[type] || contents["#{type[0, slash]}/*"] || contents['*/*'] || contents[nil]
         end
       end
     end
diff --git a/lib/openapi_first/router/path_template.rb b/lib/openapi_first/router/path_template.rb
index 2a730853..783b3057 100644
--- a/lib/openapi_first/router/path_template.rb
+++ b/lib/openapi_first/router/path_template.rb
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ class Router
     class PathTemplate
       # See also https://spec.openapis.org/oas/v3.1.0#path-templating
       TEMPLATE_EXPRESSION = /(\{[^{}]+\})/
-      TEMPLATE_EXPRESSION_NAME = /\{([^{}]+)\}/
-      ALLOWED_PARAMETER_CHARACTERS = %r{([^/?#]+)}
 
       def self.template?(string)
         string.include?('{')
@@ -15,7 +13,6 @@ def self.template?(string)
 
       def initialize(template)
         @template = template
-        @names = template.scan(TEMPLATE_EXPRESSION_NAME).flatten
         @pattern = build_pattern(template)
       end
 
@@ -25,20 +22,22 @@ def to_s
 
       def match(path)
         return {} if path == @template
-        return if @names.empty?
 
         matches = path.match(@pattern)
         return unless matches
 
-        values = matches.captures
-        @names.zip(values).to_h
+        matches.named_captures
       end
 
       private
 
       def build_pattern(template)
         parts = template.split(TEMPLATE_EXPRESSION).map! do |part|
-          part.start_with?('{') ? ALLOWED_PARAMETER_CHARACTERS : Regexp.escape(part)
+          if part.start_with?('{')
+            "(?<#{part[1..-2]}>[^/?#]+)"
+          else
+            Regexp.escape(part)
+          end
         end
 
         /^#{parts.join}$/