I appreciate your polite response. I took the first place run and my own and removed the load times, which lead to our times being under a second apart. It looks like we might be running / recording at different frame rates based on the timers and how much they advance during each frame of our respective videos.

I will strive to overcome this time gap in some other manner. Thanks for your time!

I think we need to start measuring the leaderboard by in game times.

I have tried all different types of emulation to try and replicate the insane load times that the first and second place runs have and I just can't do it. They also don't specify what they are running on, so they shouldn't be valid in the first place.