Reader Rabbit: 2nd Grade (Any%) in 10:53 [World Record]
52Ok so this run really only came to be due to some godly luck on the nine Runways. The goal is to lose those as fast as possible (most of the time they take FOREVER), and when I lost the first three Runways as crazy quick as I did, it was clear from the get-go this would be the run to sub-11. And sure, there were 13 seconds of dumb mistakes later on but they pale in comparison to those fast Runways. I simply can't stress just how good that luck was.
If you want to see a run where I actually pay some mind to points and attain the highest (Dragon Fire) rank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umGxM7rbXeo
What I said about the major mistakes at the end of the run wasn't entirely true. Here's what really happened:
On the second Castle Journal, my cursor very unluckily happened to be right where the print button was. Since skipping cutscenes requires you to mash enter and left-clicks, I got that dialogue box for a dumb loss of four seconds. By the way, the reason I just spam D's on the Castle Journals is because the game wants you to type at least eight words in the book before you can progress. They can be one-letter words, and I chose D's because ctrl+D is the keyboard shortcut for "Done".
And the second Enchanted E-Mail got me good as well because actually, my spacebar input was eaten, which threw off the key rhythm I use for that. Spacebar puts the orange square on the next blank, left or right selects the part of speech, and enter puts it in the blank. Since the spacebar input was eaten, I put two different parts of speech in the same box, which was something I didn't even know I could do, and made the situation even more confusing. Nine seconds lost total here. However frustrating that was though, I can't complain about the overall run at all.
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