Hi y'all hope if any of you have notifications on you aren't annoyed by me yet.

So in subway 3 about half way through, if you get there fast, there'll be a gun dude guarding a box. And you're thus forced to wait for him to hit the box and turn around, sitting there for up to a second or two. (as you'll see in the WR run, but not my run bc I sucked and died in this level).

But I've figured out that it's possible to not get stuck here, and save between 1/2 to 1 second.

1. Do a jump towards the box as low as possible, whilst still retaining the ability to turn around and get back to the platform (I think bonking against the wall makes the turn around faster for this but I'm not certain yet).
2. wait until you start to fall, as close to the bottom of the box as possible. you should be moving back to the platform already at this point, so that your back is to the box.
3. swing, just barely in time for the back top of the pipe hitbox to clip the box.

If done correctly you should destroy the box, and be low enough that either the gunman doesn't shoot, or he misses you.

I managed to do a run of the room and get a time .65 lower than my previous best.

I'll update if I figure out any consistency strats for it, because right now it's just muscle memory learning for me.

A video of me performing the skip:

This was my second successful box skip + triple bullet block, and both times I got the exact same time somehow, which I found amusing.

Edit: I guess if subway 3 gets added as an IL category, this will be my first submission lmao

Stuie, do you have a mechanical keyboard? I was experimenting with this trick a few weeks ago but I can't do it reliably with my laptop keyboard. I need the precision of the mechanical keyboard, I think. It means I can't do this trick but it also, more importantly, means I can't get a sub 15:50 on caves 4. I don't have the precision/control over the jumps :(. Think you're gonna have the WR over me for a long while till I get a PC.

I don't have a mechanical keyboard! The recording I posted here was taken on a mac with the magic keyboard. I can get it once every few tries.

The laptop I have at home I think I've also gotten the trick before with it, but I haven't had the spare time to get a feel for my consistency with it. For my home laptop (which I intend to use for all my runs because I hate mac), I have an external keyboard which is like a gaming keyboard, but it's not mechanical, I also haven't tested consistency with this

I should probably just buy a keyboard too. Only reason I specified mechanical is because a mate of mine said that he finds Tetris impossible to play on a laptop, because of the lack of control, and he's got some Razer mechanical keyboard or something with his home PC.