Someone in the comments of my YouTube videos mentioned a faster way to evade the sheriff's men during the chase sequences. if you go to the blackberry grove up and right of camp, you can use the hand code there. instead of turning into a tree, the blackberries part and you can walk away to the right. you don't have to wait for the sheriff's man to walk slowly across the screen. This was the first iteration:

Then the same commenter sent me this, which uses the screen down and right from the Willow Grove, and is even faster:

I was hoping you were wrong, but nope. It also render the hand glitch useless on day 12, but it saves around 10 sec, so it is a really good find.