A few weeks back, I decided to check how much ducking would save in the earlier parts of my 100%, to get some sort of perspective of how much time was lost in my v2. In the making, I thought of some new fancy strategies which I managed to apply and actually saved an surprising amount of time. I also got a few cool ideas from rhebus (Samurai Armor :3), some of which I still have yet to test.
Anyways, the vbm pretty much speaks for itself, but in short, I take some damage to get a few extra glitched level-up screens. Thus far, every level-up screen is glitched and it shouldn't be too hard to make them all glitched, except Balore and Death. Also, I have plans on skipping Imp altogether, which actually shouldn't be too hard with rhebus' Lua scripts.
Pie
Currently 599 frames ahead of myself.
I have plans to redo from the Study, either from the Arachne corridor or the Bone Pillar room during the exit. There are a few things I need to check there, and also, I'd like to avoid using Ghost so much (there are 3 Ghost soul usages which can be removed without wasting time, had to add them due to bad luck).
Turning around doesn't waste any time with ducking, so you can see me doing that sometimes for poops and giggles, or for luck manipulation.