1. "Lose Speed" in the first fight when you speed up the combat by 4x and hit the escape key when the lose box appears and then press escape again it will close the window and the game will be sped up by 4x. working ends lose speed, I don't know if stat increase is increased. More testing is needed.
2. "Warp" if you chose to go to an area on the map then rapidly click on a different area ie. construction then click on the sports store you will load the sports store. while only taking the time of the construction walking distance. I will see if you can do this with buses. More testing is needed. I don't know if these are helpful but I found them during my practice runs. I am going to start speed running again soon once I get my splits back up and running. I will try to run the game 1 once or 2 twice a week on my twitch grinding for 2nd or 3rd place. GLHF and I hope we can increase the amount of runners of this amazing game

go for 1st place! you can do it!

I'll try but Absurd's run is "Absurd_"

I remember I have run into a glitch where I caused the dark fist cutscene without having to go through any of the initial location cutscenes (store, warehouse, etc) I am pretty sure it would save time but I have no idea how it happened.

I am having trouble reproducing "lose speed", could you get a recording of you getting it?

I was able to figure it out, you have to bring up the menu as you lose and then after the fight is over and you are at the lose box, hit escape again.

Ok a little investigation into "lose speed": It works when you win as well. It does not change the rate of training. It does make text boxes etc open faster and movement is faster. You can do it on pretty much all fights as far as I can tell although I only tried it with the first couple. The 4x state is saved between runs, so you can start the glitch on one file, load up a different file, and it will be at 4x speed. I don't think it works if you force surrender and then try to bring up the box again, at least I couldn't get it to work.

Cool! I'm going to start running again after my last ap exam today and see if I can keep "lose speed" ( I think it should be called 4x now cus you don't have to lose) and see if I can get a pb, I'll stream it at twitch.tv/coffeeeturtle if you want to see me prob fail the first couple. Online school is kinda annoying and the reason I haven't been active lately.

Sorry to disappoint but I can't stream rn due to not having wifi for a bit, I'm going to try to optimize the run and once I get wifi back I'll stream and go for 1st place, glhf and good luck with future runs!