you can do my glitch at the start up there at the house and skip that first walnut head and all the barriers. Then just get to the gas station and blow it up (and kill yourself). When you respawn the bridge barrier will be gone. You dont have to do this slide under the gas station glitch anymore.

Basically, you do the whole level killing no walnut heads (other than the last one on the bridge before the next level). Done correctly can be around 2 minutes. Maybe sub 2 if you push it. I suck at speedrunning and I have already gotten around 2:20 2:40

Watch the single level run of level one. Someone uses my strat and gets 2:02. Its on this site.

After screwing around with level one I found out something interesting. You dont have to glitch under the gas station to activate the bridge gate. All you have to do is blow up the gas station. You can just die to the explosion. After you die and restart you will walk about 3 feet and then the bridge barrier will open.

This means level 1 with all the glitches should be doable in about 2 minutes.

EDIT: Apparently some folks already know this

not sure if anyone is running this anymore, but I found a very cool skip in the first level. you basically skip the entire level. Problem was I found the Walnut heads wouldnt spawn when I did this.Anyways, i found a way around that also.

If anyone is interested, I can make a quick and dirty video showing the skips used. Using the skips the first level takes about 2 minutes, maybe a bit more (2:15). I dont stream or make youtube videos, but I dont mind making a youtube video if anyone is interested in seeing the skips used.

I posted the video of my crummy guide of the glitches i found. If it isnt explained good enough, let me know guys. I put it in the guides section,. This is the video though(I explain the glitches in the guides section):