The meta for this game has been pushed significantly further than I ever expected. Being that this started out as a competition between friends, the only way to win was to become creative.

Since this is just a silly game, any form of inputs except macros are allowed. This brings us to Double Key Pressing. Double Key Pressing is an exploit on top of the existing Initial Letter Exploit. If the word is "burrito," you would just hold down the "B" key and deal chip damage at a faster rate than you would typing the word... but what if you could do that faster? Plugging in a second keyboard essentially doubles your inputs, thus drastically improving your runs. Does this work with 3+ keyboards? I haven't been able to try yet, but naturally, I would assume so. As long as you don't use a macro, any run will be accepted.

Now, what is the "perfect" run? As stated, the meta has been pushed as far as a game like this could be in such a short period of time. The "perfect" run consists of a frame perfect input, which translates to "guessing the first letter of the word before it shows up on screen." Taking advantage of this is how I got my times for elmo% and bert%. By guessing six successful times, you get the best possible time you can. If you do this on top of double key pressing, your times can easily become sub-30 for Elmo and about sub-40 for Bert. I've yet to map everything out, but I narrowed Elmo's choices to A, M, P, and R. Yes, there are more words, but I felt safer only trusting four. The thing about the RNG run is that there is a 100% chance that you get it right eventually. I just held down "A" on one keyboard and then guessed on the other keyboard. This also allowed me to get extra chip damage for the word "Paul" for Elmo.

Let's just see if we can push this meta even more.