How is that route balanced ? The goal is to get the hardest/luckiest part behind you as fast as possible, and reducing kart switching to a minimum. I kept it similar to the any% route at the beginning.

Considering the improvements made here and there, here is what I think is (nearly) the optimal route : 1)Start with a light kart in front of Scotland 2)Scotland 3)Oliver's Math Class 4)Switch to a medium kart 5)Cornfield Crossing 6)Cocoa Temple 7)Shifting Sands 8)Hacienda (with skip if executed reliably enough (>50%)) 9)Northern Resort (with skip if reliable enough) 10)Zen Garden 11)Snow Peak 12)85-points GP

• a)Skip Cocoa Temple
• b)Do Northern Resort (with skip if reliable enough)
• c)Either skip Hacienda, or use the skip (confusing I know !)
• d)If you did Hacienda, skip. If not, do Zen Garden
• e)Do Snow Peak 13)Candela City 14)Switch to light kart 15)Do 40-points GP
• a)Do Shifting Sands (use the skip)
• b)Skip Cornfield Crossing
• c)Do Oliver's Math Class
• d)Skip Abysses
• e)Do Scotland 16)Do the FTL 17)Do Blackhill Mansion 18)Do Green Valley 19)Do the 125 point GP
• a)Skip Gran Paradiso Island
• b)Do Green Valley (with skip)
• c)Do Blackhill Mansion (with skip)
• d)Do STK Enterprise (with skip)
• e)Skip Volcano Island 19)Do Minigolf 20)Switch back to medium kart 21)Do the 165 point GP - this is one of the hardest part as you need to pull-off a double-skip in a 4-races GP
• a)You don't have unlocked Fort Magma, it's not among the track you have to do
• b)Do Minigolf
• c)Skip XR591
• d)Skip The Old Mine
• e)Do Around the Lighthouse. (At this point, all major difficulties are behind you) 22)Volcano Island 23)Abysses 24)Gran Paradiso Island 25)Around the lighthouse 26)Old Mine 27)XR591 28)Fort Magma

Yeah, that's what I meant