Any% - new and faster route + tips

ROUTE:
The route is tight, you cannot miss an objective anywhere.

The first 6 levels are mandatory:
- Tutorial
- Waking Light
- B-Track
- Gemini
- Gravitational VI
- Loveless

Now we skip "Tiny Universe" as it is over 30 seconds long and keep "Crossroads" and "Corsair" for later:
- Regulator
- Snakeskin
- Patterns (2 objectives)
- Wavelair (3)
- Clouds II
- Wildlife Analysis
- Spiral
- Security Nexus

Here we skip "Sea Change" which is another single objective 30+ seconds level. We also do ONLY ONE objective in Concourse as finishing both would grant us nothing (Flightwave is blocking further movement) and we will actually return to Concourse later:
- Corsair
- Reckoner
- Chemtrails (3)
- Sundown
- Concourse (ONLY 1)
- Flightwave

Now we just skip all the "Hack payload" levels as even the shortest one is fairly long and do all the other levels. Basically you just always do the next available level, once there are no new levels available, you return to do the "Crossroads" and then you miss just 1 point to reach the "Prism", so you do the second objective of "Concourse" and voilà.
- Codex (2)
- Terminal (3)
- Phase (2)
- Migration
- Crossroads (2)
- Collapse (2)
- Ghost (3)
- Kawaii (2)
- Fracture
- Niagara
- Concourse (the second objective)
- Prism
- Escape
- Message

Comparing to the previous route, it skips "Sea Change" and "Tiny Universe" for the small price of playing "Concourse" twice, saving over a minute in the process. I think that a route that would do less objectives than this one is impossible, but I may be wrong. Also, there is definitely a possiblity that there is a route with the same levels that does "Concourse" in a signle visit after Flightware, which would save at least 6 seconds.

TIPS, TRICKS AND RANDOM NOTES:
The hardest levels are some of the Circuit levels since the objectives are set with the possibility of a flying start, but we are speedrunning so we actually want to do them on the first try. Until you are able to make all the objectives on the first try reliably, I recommend finishing the first lap with high velocity and good direction so you have it much easier on the second try.

Turn off "Screen FX" in the settings. You can see better without it and if you are lagging, this usually fixes that.

When skipping the dialogue, mash with both of your fingers to skip it as fast as possible. It is even faster to mash through text with 3 or 4 fingers, but you might have to quickly adjust how you hold your phone to do so whenever there's text.

If you do not collect any User's Files, you will save about 3 seconds because you skip 1 dialogue with the Hacker. The only 2 levels in which that file is in your path are "Reckoner" and "Flightware". If you are able to dodge it in "Flightware" (which is not that hard), you should take a slightly slower path that skips it in "Reckoner".

In "Security Nexus", once you are in Unmanaged Space, you just wait a fixed number of seconds (and 2 short conversations) for Mother to open the teleport. The place of the teleport is also fixed, so with a little bit of training, you should be able to be right on it (or at least nearby) when it opens.

Right after "Security Nexus", the game will ask you to rate it, but you have a small window to tap on the next level ("Corsair") before it does so. If you manage to do that, you will trigger a message from Hacker a bit sooner and it will write the first line while you are clicking that you don't want to rate the game, saving about a second (and do not forget that you already click on the level, so after Hacker tells you what she wants, you want to click on Engage, not on the level again).

When doing only the first objective in Concourse, unless you are crazy good and try to go for a 5.200, I recommend intentionally missing the first turbo zone as finishing the level under 5.200 without it is probably impossible, so then you just try to be as fast as possible.

In "Escape" you do not have to wait for the 255 to appear, you can just click "Clear" and then "Submit" right away.

When going back and forth in the map menu to select levels Crossroads, Concourse, Prism etc. you can tap the scrollbar at the bottom to quickly do so

Any% - Skip "Hack Payload" levels

Notes: The route by DrHades is a good 1min faster than this but it is a bit harder as you can't miss any objectives. You need to beat 7.5s on Phase and 8.5s on Ghost which are considered the hardest tracks. In this route you can afford to lose one objective on either of those tracks. Personally I find Ghost harder so i used to drop one there.

Hack Payload levels take the longest and so avoiding them will result in the fastest time. It is possible to complete the game doing only normal objectives.

Completing courses closer to the Access border gives you more 'access required' points and ones further away result in less. A 3-objective course will give you 5 points if you complete it nearer the border but only 4 points further away. This is important since if you do not get to Flightwave at exactly 42 points you'll be forced to waste a couple points as the border locks at Flightwave. 

Order:

1st section the order doesn't really matter as long as you save Wave Lair and a 1-objective level like Clouds II. You can afford to lose out on 1 point in the 1st section

2nd section order: (Do all objectives) 
Sea Change
Clouds II
Chemtrails
Wave Lair
Reckoner
Flightwave

3rd section: (can afford to lose 1 objective) 
Concourse
Terminal
Phase
Migration 
Codex
Collapse 
Ghost
Kawaii 
Fracture 
Niagara
Sundown
The Prism! 

Ghost and Phase are considered to be the hardest so you can lose an objective on one of those tracks

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Any% - new and faster route + tips	LilianaOfTheDragon 4 years ago
Any% - Skip "Hack Payload" levels	emrald 5 years ago