if you optimize your movement fast enough you can go a cycle faster than in the 27:57 and enter the door at 72 rather than 68. I have a vid of it somewhere. harder than TAS cycle 1-T NSMBDS IMO

give it a try yourself

its not gonna be easy, but if youre too slow to make it, it's easy to tell, and adjust to play it safe

ok this actually doesnt save any time unless in the next room you do this other movement I developed thats INSANELY fucking hard. I practiced this for 8 hours and got the full cycle single segment ONCE. it only saves maximum 3 ingame seconds. so in other words this discovery is shite

welp this is the full cycle RTA, its possible to make an EVEN FASTER cycle than this but that would be worse than 556 in terms of how incredibly hard it would be

im actually sweating this took me a ton of effort