Congrats on the wr @TLC1!!! Awesome to see new runners of this game since I've been around for like 5 years at this point lol with relatively few runs done. Your run makes me wonder what the best time possible would be. I have some timesaves in mind and wonder if anyone else has modifications to the route that would save time.

If you go for place on the yellow horse I think you get 1:25 odds which would get you the 25k in one gamble albeit lose you a lot of runs. But this would save a decent amount of time over 3 gambles I think.

Also we could still get a cleaner lab I think, I wonder if it's worth doing an IL category for lab? It takes a decent amount of practice but you can clear the lab continuously moving through and with more than 25hp left, meaning you wouldn't need to buy the mini burger or eat it.

Lastly if you got really lucky you could get sent to prison immediately after buying the gun and getting drunk, which would save 5ish seconds maybe.

This is all assuming there isn't some major route change that could be made to cut time.

Anyways congrats on the run

I also wanna congratulate @TLC1 on their recent WR; if I didn't have a reason to join in on the fun, they gave me one 😈

Unfortunately, I don't have much to contribute due to being generally new to the game's speedrun; that said, I will be lurking and commenting when I can.

I am very curious what an unreasonably favorable run would clock in at, and my curiosity is strong 👀

Not related but for anybody asking why my 4:15 run disappear I accidentally put a link for my 4:59 in the submission. That is the correct video.

I came up with some modifications to the rout though the RNG required is just too much for normal runs. Anyhow here is a example run. Money required can be obtained if get 1700 at stickbucks and win that horse race.

About lab to my knowledge theoretical fastest lab using the glock is 53s in that example run lab took 63s so there is 10s of theoretically possible time save.

@TLC1 That's awesome! Basically bypass the really awkward squeegee stuff by getting a big win on unicorn. You should be able to just work to night at stickbucks right if you went for this route rather than working at mcsticks

I found a minor improvement. Getting 2-3 good tips form joe's pizza at the start allows you to get the skate board before working at stickbucks. This saves 6-8s which is just enough for a 2.3x I think.

Found another minor improvement and this can be used in regular any% runs. Saving and loading right after getting lab key skips having to travel back which saves around 4s.

I made a segmented run as a compilation of all the improvements discussed here and some new ones as well.