After what feels like an eternity of trying I've finally gotten a run with a time that I can feel happy with. The same little pathing mistakes and impatience issues are still around but overall I think I did an okay job with this run. Okay RNG, pathfinding wasn't too bad overall and some decent improvements over my past runs. I'll still keep grinding away at it in the hopes of one day being able to join the official category on official hardware but in the meantime I can at least feel a little accomplished, even if it's only a little step towards improvement.

Birthday record no less, guess this game isn't always too cruel :^)