There is something in the game that I discovered yesterday and I am calling it "Early Slurpuff." Basically there is a random chance to receive extra stars from the Slurpuff levels which allows you to hire Slurpuff after level 20 instead of level 24. I have not yet found a way to get it consistently and it saves about two and a half minutes. I propose that we have separate subcategories for early and late Slurpuff to allow runs that don't get early Slurpuff to still shine.