This seems interesting, but the invite link doesn't work anymore.
It is very interesting to see this occur with a relatively slow moving object. No matter what object I tried, it seemingly had to be a plank or quickly moving. I wonder if L34 can be exploited via a pause glitch on the green objects near the start.
I've been looking into potential plank glitches on vertical planks. Since the planks start vertically, we can get boosted horizontally using a frame perfect pause glitch. L12, L15, L19, L32 and L50 could all benefit from this (plus possibly some more?). I have only manage to get a close to useful boost on 12 and 15 however, and the other 3 I have not done much testing for. I will continue to test these and hopefully at least make one of these 5 trickier pause glitches work! L54 is also an idea so far, I still have been unable to get any boost in the air, so it's either impossible or monumentally hard (I think the latter).
Not too sure how I feel about Arena runs. Only A6, A7 and A8 would be greatly affected so far. Maybe as a precaution we could split it in case any other ideas work. I think A1 is the only one which is definitely immune to these pause glitches, however it's possible that we discover a way to break the other 8 arenas.
I have been testing a few ideas I had. The L54 sweeper at the start of the stage can be used to pause glitch, I have only managed it on the ground, which isn't useful to my knowledge, but I'm hopeful that we can maybe do it in the air. L12 is another level where I have an idea of a possible pause glitch which could beat 10.13 and maybe even be able to get under 9 seconds. I cannot get the correct angle, and because of the set up, it is a much harder plank glitch to achieve, let alone align yourself to get the angle. I am hopeful that at least L12 is not fruitless, but I will continue to work on any levels I see a possibility for a pause glitch on!
The fact that it can be done on other objects is promising. I had an idea that gets an upwards boost right at the start of L54, and if you could get a pause glitch similar to the plank ones, it could be a viable strategy. I will try to test this out later!