z1nonly made a good guide for sub 4:20, but I decided to post this as an expansion so more people would get even better scores.
I suggest doing this strats after you have a PB better than 4:20, or since you start speedrunning the game (which i did).
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Language Choose any language you want, but french is a meme. ;)
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Start the game I found out that the start screen after choosing the language takes 19,5s before you can do anything.
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The letters The way to make that part of the game really fast is put the 2nd and 3rd finger on the left button on the mouse and click with both, as fast as you can. When the "O" falls down, try to throw him for as small distance as possible so it falls back down quick and then throw it again as quick as possible for as small distance as possible. This can save up to 5s in runs good as 4:20 (depends on the run).
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Sound Just click as fast as possible on the sound button till you hear it has been pressed twice. Then put your cursor in the middle of the screen and when it starts appearing, the 4th appeared is the first that can be clicked on.
When sound button gets in the wooden box, try to throw the letter "O" on top if it. Even if it does not land on it as mine did in my PB, it's still really good.
When the sound button gets in the iron box throw it up right when the non-guy starts talking the "A few kryptonite".:
"Ehh, just in case" 'Kryptonite sound' "A few kryptonite"
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Building words: First build GAME, then GOAT and TREE so it skips a bit of the squirrel animation. This is important.
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Breakout Now here it gets intense. If I look at all my WR tries, the best time when it starts moving to Breakout screen is 1:10 and the worst one 1:14, so the run is all about Breakout (i did 1:08 on mobile).
Next, I want to explain best strats. Hit the first brick in the middle, then put the ball there again so it hits the second mid brick, and again in the made hole for the third brick. Putting it there for the fourth time will make a HUGE hole. If it fails (which happens at almost every try), try to do that again at another lockation. If it succeeds, you should already have 2500 points, where you have to wait some time, around 13 seconds and your ball disapears.
Now pick up the ball and throw it in the middle of the bricks, where there is most of them. If a glitch spawn (4000pts) is a short time after you put it there (less than 4 seconds), you did it fast enough.
I like to rely on time of soloQ (tkanoob in twitch)'s glitch spawn time, which is 1:44. My WR's glitch spawn is 1:39, though.
6.Trees Quickly spell out GOAT then TREE. As soon as tree spawns, grab the trophy. When the tree is full sized and you get a nut cracked, grab it WHILE IT IS IN AIR, you will save 0.5s. My PB does not do that because i messed it up, it is still really useful, though.
7.End Keep spamming the left mouse button on your mouse on the place YES button is, so you click it as soon as possible.
Tips for running glitch%:
In this category, all glitches are allowed. There are three things that can save you up to 20-30s:
-Nut Glitch; instead of going up for giving a nut to a squirrel, hold the nut on the main screen and move the mouse out of bounds, above the main screen, exactly where the squirrel would be.
-Water Glitch: hold the cup, put the mouse out of bounds, where the waterfall would be and the cap will get filled with water.
-Game Glitch: I'll let Xcvazer explain this one:
It's hard to explain those glitches, so you'll probably understood them better if you watch Xcvazer's WR right after you read this.
That's it, I guess. GL at all of your runs.
Extra: With a discussion with Xcvazer, we found out that the best possible glitchless time is about 3:03 on Mobile / 3:06 on Web (because you can unscrew both screws at the same time on mobile) (TAS), if glitch spawn would appear before your ball dissapears.
A new category for the leaderboard has been created for runners with all versions of the game runned : Combined Times