I am very happy with this run.

Pulled all stops in IL practice yesterday and today to make 6:17 viable - extensive 10 IL practice, practicing the most optimal pixels for the jumps on 5 and 8, practicing postponing the jetpack activation on 8 until after the screen transition, practicing backups on 7 in case one of the shots missed, and generally just squeezing out every frame everywhere. And in this run it all came together. After so many flawed PBs, feels unreal to actually have a best pace run survive to the end.

It's true 10 was some way off gold because I was too slow early and had to spend extra jetpack to catch up and then had to conserve jetpack later; and there are little bits of time to gain elsewhere. But my sum of best notwithstanding, I don't see 6:16 as realistic with these strategies, at least for me personally. It could maybe be realistic with TAS 4 (and definitely with some improved version of TAS 4 if one exists), but seeing how I've never hit even regular TAS 4 even in IL practice, there's no way I'll be going for that in runs.

My hands can finally get some rest...