Been grinding the first level, and with normal cutscene behavior, the best so far I've gotten is around a 2:01. It wasn't until I ended stream that I remembered a certain video:

Of course, I try it once off-stream, and on the first try I got it. X_X

I start the stream back up again, but as you can tell, it took another five minutes to get it to work again:

As the description in the first video says, I'm also wondering if this is frame perfect.

(As a side note, I'm convinced right now that SWAT kills Neo faster than police, but haven't compared the two enough for any real evidence. I'm thinking of starting a different timer and reloading the level instead of going through the first cutscene each time I want to compare.)

I did several time testing with it and the amount of time it takes to get to the swat and the time it takes the police to kill neo is identical. At a certain point into the training it is faster to just die early rather than getting to a stronger enemy. I think the best time I got was like 1:45 or 48 somewhere in there.

Good to know! It really is an odd tradeoff between two pistols or an additional cutscene (and loading screen) and three guns (I think it's a pistol, rifle, and shotgun?).

feel free to join the discord if you want and we can time stuff some time :D I really love grinding out data on matrix games