1-1: a detailed route

This level is usually pretty easy. It hinges mostly around how many down kicks you use and how efficiently you can go through fights.

Use the down kicking strat as much as possible while not getting damaged up until the shop, where the first fight scene takes place. Using the knives found at the right of the area, defeat enemies using a combination of knives and high kicks. On the moving platforms, do some quick jumps (down kicking stops your jump height) to ascend them quickly.

On the next set of moving platforms, combine both down kicks and high kicks to get across with little/no damage, and then do a precise high kick when traversing the large pool of water before the shop.

From here, use the down kick strat as much as possible, ascending the three-floored building using the moving platform to get to the second floor and then a regular jump to get to the next platform.

Perform the ASM (air speed manipulation) glitch to get the knife and land on the other side, where the second fight occurs. This fight needs for some enemies to be defeated by hand along with the box so that few knives are wasted. After three of the six armored goons are defeated and the box broken, go to the right side of the screen and use the ~30 knives that you should have at this point to kill the remainder of the enemies. When the fight is over, use the down kick strat, making sure to go under the roof of the building so as not to activate the hidden platform, and complete the level.

Down kick strat: https://www.speedrun.com/dantheman/guide/38qpt
ASM: https://www.speedrun.com/dantheman/guide/w0l4s

general speedrunning guide

This guide briefly states some guidelines for speedrunning any Dan the Man level.
Down kick as much as possible. The down kick strat always makes you move faster, so the more down kicks you can fit into any speedrun, the faster you'll go.
Take as little damage as possible. Your health is sometimes required for certain strats in levels to skip long segments, and usually getting damaged will lose time either because the player character is stunned or there is less room for down kicks.
Use the double-down kick to defeat most enemies. This attack can deal about 60 damage on its own, and when combined with different gloves it can do much more. Most enemies have 60 health or less, so this is an effective method of defeating enemies.
Don't ASM all the time. This trick might be effective if you want to cross a gap quickly but it is a bit slow when you only do it on the ground because it requires a power attack to be charged up. Don't use it unless you think it's going to skip something.
I hope this guide helps. Happy speedrunning!

Prologue

in the second fight of 0-1, only use a double down kick for the right one, and then a high kick for the left one

in the third fight of 0-1, do a double down  kick with the first down kick on the black jar for the bottom two enemies

in 0-2 it's slightly faster to power attack ASM across the gap before starting the fight and then doing a double down kick on the enemy

in the second fight of 0-2 do the same thing except when on the other side use 4 bullets from a fully upgraded gun

in the last fight of 0-2:
1) take the RPG7 and shoot a rocket to the left and the right
2) switch to the modern rifle, shoot two bullets to the right and two to the left
3) drop down, defeat the three enemies with 5 bullets from the modern rifle
4) exit

in 0-3, ONLY ever try for a double down kick on the shielded goon, if they block it go to the vulnerable side and do the same thing

The down kick strat

__How to do it__:

 It's a pretty simple and effective strat. What you need to do is when running without interruptions (no enemies) instead of just going forward, you jump and kick downward while in the air. This will give you a little boost in speed.

Bogdan_mk

Spielpro

timeflow

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Difficulty

Dan the Man has been famously terrible to speedrun at top level, in part because loading times are inconsistent across devices (better devices will load faster and give a free advantage), and because if you really want to be at the top you have no choice but to get premium (either by buying it which

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1-1: a detailed route	timeflow 5 years ago
general speedrunning guide	timeflow 5 years ago
Prologue	Spielpro 5 years ago
The down kick strat	Bogdan_mk 6 years ago