i think omega pirate was being nice in this successful attempted run.. may be the only hard mode any% from me. Did the liberty of practicing easy ice before flagraa, and getting it off successfully in this run so i probably put in a lot more effort into this one (please note.. the skip probably still isn't easy for me. lol.) i imagine i have done that skip faster on normal mode.. years ago at this point though. hard mode run as a whole certainly is a bit faster than what it would of been without it.