just by looking at my 46.383 run, i can only see areas thank can lower it to 46.1xx (better level 2 and skipping final brick on level 6). does anyone know if anything can be done to get sub 46, or will 46.1 be the last tenth second barrier?

double bonk makes a 46.1xx barely possible, a sub 46 won't be happening. Skipping the last brick in level 6 unfortunately doesn't seem possible. I've explained everything I've tried in this post: https://www.speedrun.com/post/y6k5b

Edit: before @Spectisy mentions it, double jump only saves 0.05 seconds (I timed it)

ty fam

Actually, now that I think about it, when I first discovered the double jump I didn't really try too hard to find use for it. I did a bunch of tests, found out it was impossible to skip any bricks with it, and assumed it saved no time. I checked and it is slightly faster, but if you did multiple of them it might be possible to save like .2 with them. I will check later and attempt to find a route that uses multiple double jumps that isn't slower, but it probably won't be realistic for runs yet. Each double jump is frame perfect, the difficulty of doing 4 of them would be like doing double bonk twice in a row. However, I'm fairly confident that there are no major skips using the double jump, and probably no major skips left in the entire game.

i might look into making a TAS for the game since all i need to do is mimic keyboard inputs, and then ill see what the theoretical fastest time is. it does seem very unlikely that multiple double jumps will be performed in one run, and will probably only be used as a last resort to improve times

TAS would get ez sub 46

WAIT,if you do the bottom bonk and double jump 5..

double jump 5 saves only 0.05 over single bonk, so bottom bonk + dj would save 0.05 over double bonk. that's still not even enough for 46.0xx

TAS would not get "ez sub 46" with the current route

ik a tas route

what would be different though?

Probably something that uses several double jumps in level 5, to save enough time to barely make a 45 second time possible

unrelated, I have an idea for brick skip in level 6, and will do some tests later

maybe

merl,what idea?

ok so i i think 04x is possible

Merl,what brick skip????

"double bonk makes a 46.1xx barely possible, a sub 46 won't be happening." this aged well huh