I managed to do better than my previous 5th place record by simply beating the crap out of the Vortex Queen. No, really that's pretty much all I changed, I literally beat the crap out of the Asterite and The Vortex Queen, so yeah I guess that works! And now I'm in 4th! I don't know if I can go any faster! But I know I will at some point, so I look forward to that.