Just got to this providence trial and noticed it'd be kind of fun to speed run it and wanted to create a thread to start a speedrun category for it. It'll probs be optimized quickly cause of how straightforward it is but I want to do it anyways. My best time is a 37.6 right now taking the top path is by far the fastest I'm pretty sure, but with my current path you run out of movement abilities right near the end on the pillars over lava part causing a few seconds of time loss. Anyone got any ideas on how to fix this?

Hello. Are you talking about "Slide to the Finish!" ? Or maybe I didn't unlocked the one you are talking about yet.

Just got 29.6 with definitely room for at least 2-3 seconds of improvement. Use your special for the first jump to save a dash, take the topmost route, double dashing to the hanging chain. Wait for dash to come back then dash directly through the shrine to land on the second platform and climb chains. You can skip the thin column climb with a well-timed dash, then dash once to get into the pit with the goat's hoof and again to get to last lava gap. Once last dash is up a good angle will send you flying over the top, drop before the last platform.

Edit: 29.3, using special to jump last lava gap, then special-dash to go a bit further. Moving on for now.

I discovered the Race to the Finish Trial earlier this morning and had a lot of fun trying to figure out how to improve my time. My current record is 19.3s, but I think I managed to glitch through some lava on my second to last dash. My second best time is 20.0s, and I did that one without any luck required.

Got a 17.6, still had a tiny bit of waiting and didn't do that crazy corner cut at the end, adding that would probably save another half second at least, but I'm pretty happy with this atm.

I was so certain that this trial would take advantage of the ground-cancelled dash slide into a few jumps but these giant flings with the whips are so much simpler and faster lol. Really great stuff

Spent a good 4+ hours trying to beat 16.30 with ground cancelled dash slide but could fit in was 1 at the end, managed to match yours in the end

definetly think 16.2 at the very least in possible on that route