Trapeze

• Buy the Double Jump from King Julien to be faster and skip trampoline sections
• Get off the Trapeze before it slows down to save time.
• Double Jumps to skip smaller platforming sections.

Cannon

• Using Marty's Air Dash in Italy saves about 1 minute.
• Cutscene Skip can be consistently used in all of Marty's stages.
• a lot of optimizing to do, perfect angles for the Cannons still have to be discovered
• after the first cannon of stage 2 in Italy (Stefano's first stage), the camera moves too fast, until the point where the game expects you to lose your momentum. You can get stuck there. If you dont, you will just go on with the level, in a perfect run even without being able to see your character for a few seconds. If you DO get stuck, it probably is faster to die and do it again than to wait for you to get unstuck.
• The mentioned section in the second Cannon stage in Italy can be skipped if you get a perfect angle for the Cannon and skip the Trampoline entirely.

Tightrope

• press A as fast as possible, you can sometimes get on the rope pretty early/from a far distance
• because of the input lag this is best to play on the DS and not an emulator
• you can press Y to run faster on the tightrope 6-7 times depending on the speed, then hold right until you start to lose speed and its safe to press Y another 5-6 times. The fastest way to move is probably coming to a full stop a split second before you're starting to lose speed and then press Y 6-7 times again. This is easier to assess/control when playing Gloria.
• jump onto the platform in the end of the rope, jumping is faster than the top rope running speed
• in the first Level of Italy, dont activate the first trap door, keep walking and fall off the edge
• if you fail and start tripping, if you are in the beginning of the rope, jump back to the beginning (only if the rope is high above the ground it saves time, so pretty risky)
• if you are NOT in the beginning of the rope, don't jump down to save yourself, falling down by tripping is faster.

Motorcycle

• Hold A at all times and start doing so before the game itself starts, you can sometimes start accelerating during the loading screen.
• Ramps can fail and make you drop down instead of "jumping". The current world record shows how this can be used to your advantage. It happens when you are going perfectly straight and either don't touch and barrels and stay in the middle or touch one barrel to the left and then one to the right to realign you
• You can use the explosives barrels to jump higher and possibly get a very slight speed boost
• Pressing left or right doesn't do anything, you can play just with the A and B buttons
• Press Y to use brakes (even midair) and get better control of where you land, can save your run
• You can jump once. This restores when you touch the ground, meaning that you jump in the air after falling down a ramp.