Icy, Naive, and I were doing a few runs and found that if you complete a level, before there are many monologues, and go to the menu before the game recognizes that it is complete, then when you hit play to go back, it puts you on the next level without any of the forced monologues. This proved to save around 30 seconds for runs.

this proved to be quite challenging because going too fast and it would not recognize that you went to the menu, and force you to go through the monologue, go too slow and it would start the monologue before you could leave the level. It just led to a lot harder but way more optimized run.

if you press "clear" after beating the level and after clicking on the menu button it will work pretty much aways