i'm sorry if it's strange to ask, but would it be plausible to have speedruns up until the first time you meet/talk to a character? or would there be very little purpose in that? Or until you have the material to fuse a certain persona or something to that degree?

Meme runs like this would not be on leaderboards.

But reminder that you are free to run whatever you want and leaderboards shouldn't dictate what you can and cannot run.

ah, thank you. sorry for the bother.

Basically what Asapaska said.