beat the game with min caps, min jumps, min music, min checkpoints, min purple coins, min cap throws, and min coins. this is a lot so the rules could be tweaked. but I would like to see a run like this

Sounds very interesting. I hope it is explored further.

Min caps is already like this.
I don’t think you can do less than it, considering already how hard the game is with 3 captures

i was thinking of having priorities though, like min caps would be highest, so if you had to jump to skip a capture, you could. but if you could skip a jump through a capture, you couldn't

i also think the leaderboard is organized by how little they did, then the time. i know this would be hard to calculate but maybe there could be a point system or something?

This type of thing is better done as a challenge run than a speedrun.