I did a blindfolded run a long time ago. probably a year and a half, at least. Got a time of 25 minutes..

The leaderboards have always been based off of IN GAME TIMERS for a reason, I used to use pause strats in my runs however I would lose ~100 ms and it didn't help me that much. However, the rules have said in game timer for a reason, and pausing has never been against the rules.

huh strange not sure why they were approved lol

Its in the rules that times need to have milliseconds enabled, but there are still a few runs from a while back when they weren't required, so you might be seeing those