30 Minutes Achievement is almost impossible

[荏苒]

World Record is 23 Minutes (See Youtube). Do developer think everyone is the same as professional speedrun player? My best score is 34 minutes. I only made 5 mistakes throughout the game, and on average, each mistake wasted 15-20 seconds more time. However, I still couldn't complete the game within half an hour.

[Furdabip]

As long as you know how to solve each puzzle, you should be able to get a 28:00 or 29:00 with practice. You can join the Superliminal speedrunning Discord if you want to check the current strats or ask for help; https://discord.gg/2gDZUXsV

Or check out Samwise's tutorials if you're still struggling;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-AQTtvAEUg&list=PL4CmBBbOlrvHU5VJnUUKOEMl0XIqi_FvY

[paraph07]

This achievement does not count loading screens and cut scenes, so it should be very easy as long as you don't stop moving.

[荏苒]

Originally posted by paraph07:

This achievement does not count loading screens and cut scenes, so it should be very easy as long as you don't stop moving.

But you cannot make any mistakes. If you make operational mistakes during the puzzle solving process, the time spent can be fatal.

[FatGrover]

I've tried it twice now... first go was 33:39.5. Second attempt I got 30:13.1 I made two decent errors in the second run (bouncy house and final cheese mistakes added at least 0:45), otherwise I would've gotten it. So it's doable! I haven't even tried the bounce technique that could save a little time in a couple places as well.

[Orilune]

Yeah, I did my third playthrough with the timer enabled, just to see how good or bad I am and got a 42-ish time.
Went to the game's section on speedrun.com and found a series of videos explaining the Glitchless Any% speedrun - the one that's closest to what the average gameplay looks like.
I also downloaded LiveSplit for the heck of it, since it automatically splits your times at each loading screen anyways and I figured it might be fun to see when I improve.
My second run was mid-30 minutes, and with lots of room for improvement, but just 6 more full runs (and 3 ragequits) later, and I now got a 29:27, which would put me at 581th place on the leaderboard, when the hardest trick I did the entire game was jumping onto and off the boards across the pit in Blackout instead of looking for the path and walking across like a normal person.
Also, I checked up my "Sum of Best Segments", the lowest times I got for each level, and they'd total a 27:42, so there still were lots of mistakes.

Basically, getting sub-30 is a bit of a challenge, but not one that requires an ungodly amount of practice - the most important thing you can do to get faster is remember what to do in each room, and try to keep moving straight towards the exit even while moving objects around.

[Mitsunee | 光音]

For the impatient ones who don't want to put in the time investment to practice every section there are also tricks like Labyrinth Skip explained on Samwise's youtube channel (linked above already). I used that one initially to get a 26:28.1 final time and since then kept doing glitchless runs for fun and gotten two runs under 30mins since then.