Updated: 6/22/22

This guide is perhaps one of the most important guides not only in matter of getting fast times, but also because it turns the game from a frustrating, seemingly luck based run into a stressful, exciting battle against the unfair luck in this game.

As explained in [10] Basics of the Floppa Cycle, Floppa's cycle restarts every time he eats and follows a path that includes the milk dish, scratching post, and catnip. The milk dish gives base $100, scratching post gives base $30, and catnip gives a random base bonus from $500-$1200 (although the scratching post and catnip don't happen every cycle). That means, in a full cycle, you make $630-$1330 + the 4x boost from the catnip for 60 seconds. With multipliers, that can go all the way up to $16M per cycle!

As a result, it is super important to cycle Floppa as fast as possible in order to get more cycles and therefore more cash. The way to do that is to take inspiration from Monster% and make Floppa run a check (see [10] for what a check is) right as he turns hungry. This can be done through petting Floppa while he is moving to delay his arrival to his destination and as a result delay the check to be in time with him being hungry. In the below clip, I pet Floppa before he reaches the milk bowl so that when he drinks the milk, he is hungry and eats immediately after. Here is another example that is most commonly seen in speedruns (you don't see him eat but he is going to the food bowl at the end): If you want to see a speedrun that uses good cycles, below is a 21:02 $100,000 which is also where I got the two above clips from.