Just going to leave this here.

When I think of saving time in this game, one of the things that come to mind is the speed power-up. Power-ups can be retrieved from destroying spawners, boxes, pots, etc. Just to mess around, sometimes I try for a speed power-up from a spawner in a run. One that I've gotten multiple, but not every time was in Virtual Room 1 (Chapter 2). After the 2nd Citizen, you go to the right on a sidewalk. Pass 1 red spawner and then you will get attacked by a red monster coming from the right side. Right after him is the spawner that I've gotten the speed power-up from on multiple occasions. I tried this several times. Mostly, I've either gotten the Speed power-up or nothing at all. Very few times have I gotten a health power-up or any other miscellaneous power-ups. The reason I put this here in the forums is so this can be documented, if anybody that reads this cares enough to conduct a good amount of research into how power-ups from spawners or other breakables works. I wondered if it had to do with the time on the top-left of the screen, whether the monster itself had influence on it, whether your health influenced it, and other ideas too. Unfortunately, from my understanding (which is pretty minimal), a good theory is that this is 100% RNG based, and there's nothing we can do about it. But that doesn't change the fact that I got this specific power-up many more times than any other power-up when given any power-ups. That's what keeps me from saying the drops being RNG is fact. That's what leaves me with that being a theory. Sorry for the long post, just felt like this could be documented, the reason being that I believe enough Speed drops in a run could bring a time down a really good bit. Of course, there are other things that can save time in a run (good Zord fights, RNG in firetruck levels, movement, etc.), but this is one that intrigues me more and leads me to curiosity. Thanks to anyone who read and even more thanks to anyone who wants to give their time to researching this and helping conduct another theory or if we can make this fact!