While this doesn't improve on the time, this absolutely improves on the actual number of apples collected, changing the value from 15 to 9 total apples. I do have a scratch mod installed, which is why it paused randomly in the middle. If this invalidates the run then frick, though the rules don't say that it has to be unmodded scratch. The pause is in there to begin with because this was originally intended to be a personal challenge to test the limits of the game.