Just out of curiosity, and because I ran out of patience looking at each run on the board: does anyone know who has the fastest blue ring route run?
On the current board this is very hard to say, there are some notable runs such as Janthe's 34:42 https://www.speedrun.com/the_legend_of_zelda/run/y45j7d3m
Past this time, it's kinda unrealistic that anybody will grind Blue Ring more to progress, most people ditch the Blue Ring afterwards and switch to 2 first Red Candle and then 3 first. People got faster times that are not on the board such as me, GreenMario or rooslugs but it's more like for "fun" purposes since we already got way faster times with the current WR route
I did a 32:36 for fun once. Was a one off, no grinding. (no up+a) Pretty sure I have a 30:52 with up+a in a few attempts. I didn't cut corners with these (skipping white sword, etc.). My goal was to do the base routes, more less, fast-ish.
With the release of the new Nintendo "Game & Watch" which includes an official emulation port of the NES and Famicom "The Legend of Zelda" these versions are allowed for speedrunning purposes, because as far as we can tell, they play exactly the same as the NES versions (subject to change if other d