Hey there folks, so I'm pretty new to the speedrunning community and I'm most likely not gonna stay TOO long either, rn I am in artblock and thought it would be fun to try while i wait to get over it and so i tied with the WR on 8-5 (IMO the most speedrunable level in the game lol) which is a 269 outta 300. However yhe original world record was posted about 4 years ago and since then, about 20 people or so people have tied the 269. I feel like if it was possible ot would have been done by now? Idk, i wanna hear what yall think, i probably will go for it though. Stay safe!

Believe it or not a time of 275 has been achieved on a TAS of this game The TAS makes use of something called hyperspeed (throwing something down a slope then going into the blue shell to gain a lot of speed, then doing consecutive frame perfect jumps to maintain that speed), however no one has managed to get the hyperspeed to work yet and save time with it in an IL run yet (to my knowledge anyway). Trying to get anything better than 269 without using hyperspeed however seems impossible.