It turns out with the skip in the elevator room where you can animation skip on the spider web, it's possible to skip before getting the web and then continue the game without it, and become soft locked at the guard on the toilet.

Hi Mugg, it's so awesome to see you!! Sorry it took me a few days to reply, work has been a bit nuts but it's so great to hear your thoughts on all this. I'd done a bunch of timings myself and had a couple of the ones you'd found in the elevator room. I also had been trying to work on the wall section, I think there's a few elements to that. I think the optimal route is to consistently take two steps, and a third if you see the bird guard coming up from the bottom, their line of sight seems bad compared to the others. You want to get to the running jump though so that you're stop-start cycle stops there, and in limited testing so far I'm often one short so I think it's worth taking one risky move but otherwise following that plan.

I had considered the time saves from failing on purpose, but since I was the only person still running the game I decided not to because they're kinda fun but since it's the two of us at now if you're thinking we should then in the spirit of speedrunning it, I think you're probably right that we should at least be failing the stairs. I think for the sewing game, you lose up to 1.5 seconds if you get the fail timing wrong, so I'm not so sure that's worth going for vs just trying to get better at it? When I was running the game before I was using a batch script to retry the sewing section over and over, I need to remake it now I'm doing attempts again but I'd be happy to share that.