when it happens randomly in level 2 you feel like it's slow because you are anticipating something else to happen but now you have to react to new situation, which slows you down.
if you play for the glitch and know exactly where you want it to place you it might be faster. it's harder to understand where the hammer hitbox is though :(
sorry getting ahead of myself lol
i think if you get in a good position for pulling yourself it will be faster because you skip a whole cycle of moving the hammer down and up.
level 1 glitchless i mean why not let's do it
yes i think skipping a portion of level 2 like this is possible
lol i love watching speedruns and just clicking 1 button to verify it's not annoying thank you
i don't think anyone is going to play that category if we seperated them :D in my 2.74 run it happened by accident, i don't know of anyone getting that ending intentionally. in total i had a head glitch finish 4-5 times out of thousands of level 1s. also this 2.76 is my best run without head glitch, only 1 frame slower.
just sent speedrun.com a request for category extensions with my hardmode video, hopefully they grant our wish and idk if we can just add more extensions as we wish we'll see
i tried out modernized and it has a slightly different level 1, also couldn't get the level 3 warp on it so probably slightly different mechanics. i know you want it to be an extension but i just wanted to check if we can use it for official leaderboards. and we can't. i wish we could figure out what causes the texture error and fix it or port the game 1:1 or patch so it works on modern hardware.
as long as the mechanics of the game and levels are same you can run on a different version and your run will be accepted in official leaderboards. I'll look into those versions when i got some free time
getting category extensions takes some effort i would love to just hit a simple switch and boom we have extensions now but sadly there's work to be done that i don't have the time for nowadays