What would the IL even be? Like land in the area and beat the boss? Land in the area and collect all fruits and upgrades? We need more details.

Isn't there like the thing where if you die on the file select, it warps you to the last cutscene viewed? So just view the opening Corona cutscene, find a way to die on file select (which right now is impossible), and voila! It's not a clip but it is a wrong warp.

I agree with milk. This game doesn't need to be like shitoon and start from a new user. Just have them all completed and do it from coursebot. This will also allow categories like all sample courses, all maker set courses (the first 8), and all nwc courses.

Well, even thought it is a bad assumption, for now I'm going to assume pipe loading times are the same as level loading times because they are both loading new maps. If anything pipe loading times are a few frames shorter than level loading times because of the difference in size of the main map compared to the smaller maps. Also, even if different levels have different loading times, the difference is probably so small that it isn't worth the time to go and time all however many levels there are and just go with the one time. It probably would only be a few frame difference, after all.

I timed a bunch of loading times, they are in a guide now. I could easily make a formula to calculate the time to subtract.

we would just need a timer that pauses during loading times (like portal).

I've been into IL's lately, but there isn't any leaderboard for it. Could someone possibly make one?