In a Twitter post today on @animalcrossing , they said that they would support cloud saves. I think this might make running the game more accessible, once they roll out the save data transfer feature later this fall.
Many have expressed the same interest as you, and I agree that it is unfortunate that we can't play casually and run at the same time. Hopefully this issue will be resolved with the new features.
There's also the option o homebrewing your switch and extracting your save file that way, but I'm not how comfortable you are with softmodding (I've never done it so I can't speak from experience)

Not sure how speedrun-friendly this would be. Also we'd have to think of when to stop the timer and what counts it as a "barren" town. I don't think this would get any runs, and thus we'd just have a 1-run category. Interesting idea though.

My first run was a low 3 hours... I could send you the splits if you want but i don't have video

Also @PokethemadBro , 243 is any% but you don't skip any levels.

Yess, more things for me to bop Yandema in 🙂

I just reread your question, and to answer the "how do I change the camera" question, I personally hold my gamepad like this, so that I can move my camera without moving my fingers. Kinda clawgrip-esque but it works well.
https://gyazo.com/751b282b07872240ecf9d304bc7f34cb

I personally use something we top-level runners like to call nose-strats. Pretty much how it works is your hold the gamepad normally, and when something comes up you quickly hit the gamepad with your nose so you don't have to take your hand off the gamepad.

and before you ask no I'm not joking, I actually do this 🙂

Hello. Sorry to bother, but the moderator for Sphere Complex seems to be fairly inactive. ( https://www.speedrun.com/Sphere_Complex )
I recently submitted a run, and plan on doing more as I enjoy the game, but he has not logged onto SR.C in 3+ months, and his last tweet was from June so I doubt he checks that much, and his twitch profile seems practically dead. Since I plan on running more and this isn't just a one-time thing I need you guys to approve, and since I hope to get some friends running this, I kindly ask for you to please make me a moderator for this game.
Thanks!
Nick
P.S. Yes I know I just submitted this run, but after searching around his social media it seems like he hasn't logged onto anything I can contact him by in quite some time. Sorry if this seems pushy or impatient, but I don't think he's coming back anytime soon.

If you look on the sidebar of speedrun.com, you'll see there's "Full-game Leaderboard", and right under that is "Level Leaderboard". You click on Level Leaderboard, and it will drop down with every galaxy. Click on the one you want to submit to, and then you can take it from there.

Hi, I believe you can do them in any order you like, but people just do them in order they appear for organization, I suppose 😛

T H A N K Y O U S O M U C H!!
I've been looking for stuff like this since I started running the game (~A month ago) but never could, so hanks for making these! Now maybe I won't be too lazy to practice. 😛

Hello! Yes, I believe you can, as I have done runs off of Nintendont before and they've been accepted.

Thanks man! Although I'll probably never do hundo myself, I'm sure it'd help out other people. 🙂

Hey there! I had considered this before, but haven't felt the need to add it. If you guys want it though, I will add it.

I think that Great Plateau% would be a good race category. Should be self explanatory, but if not, all shrines in great plateau.

if you are talking about the cutscene skipping, then we are unsure about this, and are currently trying to figure out how this can be done.

Hey, I hate to do this since I just changed my name not too long ago, but since twitch has name changes now, can you change my name back to "Nick_", capital N, to match my twitch, and have a shorter name? Thanks in advanced, sorry for the hassle!

Hello everyone! I have decided to make a discord for people who run the game.
Here is the link:
https://discord.gg/CHhdTNR
Make sure to read the rules!

Hey there! Thanks for this idea, I am adding a two star category right now 🙂

Done! Sorry about that 😛