So, I was really bored one afternoon, and I decided, "you know what, I'm gonna add up the WRs for every level and compare them to the current WR." These are the results I found.

Because my calculator sucks, (TI-30X) I can only store each act and the full game here. regardless, the results I found were very interesting.

Well, act I doesn't really reflect that very well. my results for the WR in every level was a time of 2 minutes, 50 seconds, and 554 milliseconds, prelude included. the current world record for act I is 3 minutes, 6 seconds, and 156 milliseconds. only 15 seconds of improvement.

Act II, however, is much more interesting than act I. my results for the WR in every level was a time of 3 minutes, 23 seconds, and 355 milliseconds. you wanna know what the current WR for act II is? 4 minutes, 58 seconds, and 273 milliseconds. An improvement of over a minute and a half. absolutely absurd.

And now, for the moment you've all been waiting for, the full game speedrun. My time calculated up to 6 minutes, 13 seconds, and 909 milliseconds. A monstrous improvement to the current WR of 9 minutes, 58 seconds, and 856 milliseconds.

So, yeah. We all suck. Even assuming that these records never change no matter what, we still have 3 and a half minutes of improvement. Over a third of the time can be shaved off of the current world record, so get to it runners!

This would be assuming that you stop your run half way to change which patch you are running on :P Because of patch shenanigans when the game leaves ea all runs done on ea versions will no longer be valid so all of the old runs will be removed and the every board will be clean so its safe to assume that the records will change definitely.

yeah i know the records are gonna change, i just made this to let people know how much improvement can be done.

also i based the times on IGT, so the timer would not keep going. even if it did, it would only add like 1 or 2 seconds

All runs (with the exception of NG100%) are timed via IGT. That is not what I am talking about.

What I am talking about is a lot of the IL times are no longer achievable on the current patch of the game. Many of these times are only achievable on patches that don't contain all of the content required for a full any% run. This means in order to play on the optimal patch for every level you would have to switch patches during the run (this is not allowed). This is why looking at the IL times is not a good way to predict where the any% run could end up.

yeah i know that it's IGT. that's what i was saying.

ok since it seems there is still some confusion and it's literally my run you were comparing i might as well explain: game is in early access -> every update changes a lot of in-game stuff -> speedrun strats tend to get patched

now here's the thing: individual level boards do not get reset -> the WRs on those boards could be any version of the game up to like 3 years old -> adding up all individual WRs =/= best theoretical run, because the individual level WRs are all different versions of the game

To create a best theoretical run for current patch you'd have to know all CURRENT patch individual WRs and while you can filter by patch thats also going to be flawed as people rarely upload runs to a leaderboard that is patchlocked (a.k.a with an unbeatable wr time set in an older patch) Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Also, just adding to the last bit of what ussom was saying, I literally have current patch IL pb's that I can't submit because I have existing old patch IL pb's on that board, so I can't get on the current patch boards for those levels lmao

But yeah like, 0-3 if you played theoreically perfectly in a full game on current patch you would still lose multiple seconds to the IL wr since the end pipe clip isn't in 0-3 at all anymore.