this is really important so what can we do if we had no timesave...?

There's still 10 coins, no one has submitted IL runs for that, so there's still optimizations there probably. Hopefully someone finds a glitch to prevent knockback or something, or a way to grab flowers fast enough to save time.

you can try to tie 1st

idsap i meant if you wanted to beat the wr but the wr had no timesave

i mean there is a slight timesave (probably) where you can slide down a slope in fire flower fields. it speeds you up a bit.

If someone wants to try, it may be faster to spam jump on Spikey Sewer with both W and mouse to rise faster, haven't tried yet though.

i tried your strat but sometimes it just didn't work

Yeah, it seems just spamming W faster seems to be better.

i have one strat that will save many seconds. just watch my run when it's verified.

(it's in NSS btw)

Btw, just found out you can click the flag twice to make the main menu come out faster, might save a bit of time menuing between levels.