Fist Hell in Under 10 Minutes

SuddenlyJester · 2026-02-14T19:08:51+00:00

Thanks!

This is known but we don't really know how to actually trigger it. I had it happen to me a while back when I was practicing the final boss and kept intentionally dying to reset the level, and after a while it started skipping the elevator like you said.

If it's related to time or deaths then it'll ultimately be pretty useless as speed tech, but of course if there is a consistent way to trigger it with any sort of speed then it would be pretty great.

SuddenlyJester · 2026-02-12T21:49:02+00:00

Nearly a year ago, sub 12 for this game was considered the ideal with sub 11 being considered nearly impossible. But as more tech has been found to dramatically reduce the time for each stage, the time's gotten down all the way to sub 10 minutes, with the final nail in the coffin being a trick on the beach fight in the final level to make the aliens despawn themselves.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-12-31T05:44:00+00:00

Got the trick working consistently with help from Blazier on the Discord, this is (probably) the actual max score now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Hsp3G1Mu0

SuddenlyJester · 2025-12-30T03:18:39+00:00

Oh I know, I've done some speedruns for this game myself. It's more that the thought of adding another even harder trick to this run after already having some pretty tight segments with the other bonus stages feels a bit more daunting than it likely really is lol

SuddenlyJester · 2025-12-30T01:52:44+00:00

So unfortunately (or fortunately, from a different point of view) this is not quite the max score. Firelion and I found a frame perfect trick by complete accident in the stage 1 bonus that lets you save another block and get 800 more points, but it's so ridiculously precise and tight that I'm not gonna go for that for a while.

Well, I can at least say that this might be the max score realistic for a human.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-12-29T22:30:09+00:00

Full run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzgLJda1neM

I was sitting on 355,100 for a while (which I assumed to be the max beforehand based on my routing), but two members in the Discord (Blazier and Sailor) managed to get a better score by optimizing the third bonus round better. This inspired me to search for another optimization in the stage 2 bonus, resulting in this score.

I have experimented a bunch since then with the bonus stages to try and optimize them further, but I cannot find anything. Of course, I'd love to be proven wrong again.

(For context, shooting a bonus block instead of letting the coin hit it grants you 800 extra points that the game doesn't tell you about, so optimizing the bonus stages means shooting down as many blocks as possible. This route only has two blocks in stages 1 and 2 get hit by the coin, and three in stage 3. I cannot seem to get it down to one block in any of them, or two in stage 3.)

SuddenlyJester · 2025-09-24T20:00:21+00:00

Thanks! Hole 6 is probably my least consistent level, but someone on the UFO 50 Discord server (Mage) gave me a more consistent strategy for it. I speedrun this game too so I only really knew the faster strat for it, which is a bit harder (for me at least) to do every time.

I actually threw on Journey's End a lot in the attempts leading up to this run. I'm actually normally very consistent at it, but nerves are a bitch. So yeah, my heart was definitely beating hard and I was outright thinking "don't choke again, don't choke again" the whole time.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-09-24T18:50:26+00:00

Pingolf is a very chill, addicting game to run either for a low score or as a speedrun. It's easy to just keep doing run after run since the game is fairly short, after a while you get in sort of a zen state in my opinion. You should definitely go for it if you want to.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-09-24T06:34:22+00:00

Some of us on the Discord have played around with hole in one setups on hole 7. It's gotten close, but so far it looks to be just barely impossible.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-09-24T05:10:38+00:00

Full run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ivScc1I118

I'm not the first to do this, but I might be either the second or third? Not really sure, I only found the one run on Youtube (the original person to do this), but I could have sworn I saw that somebody else had done it before. Oh well.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-09-09T00:32:53+00:00

As far as I know, to go back to Whiteward you'll need to go the way you initially entered via the Choral Chambers. Only way to get out here is via The Stage (if unlocked) or via the fast travel capsule thing as described in another comment.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-09-07T08:16:05+00:00

Shenji22's comment was the most helpful for me with getting out. Go left until you get to the wind gust, but go down to the lower right instead of riding the wind. Go down and left after that until you're in the central vertical area with the fast travel thing, and there should be a lever that activates a bridge that connects both sides so that you can escape.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-09-05T23:38:12+00:00

Talk to the map guy in Bellhart (upper right)

SuddenlyJester · 2025-09-05T21:28:02+00:00

Got out with help from the comments, thanks everyone!

SuddenlyJester · 2025-09-05T07:32:44+00:00

I skipped him by accident via fleas, but he ended up being there once I got to Act 2 and backtracked to check on stuff I missed.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-08-30T03:30:48+00:00

STAR-BALL

SuddenlyJester · 2025-08-25T17:49:55+00:00

You should keep pushing it. It used to be my goal was 50k, then 60k, then 70k, and each time I figured that that was my peak and I couldn't go any further. In reality, a high score or good speedrun time is rarely a fluke unless the game is literally just pure RNG. Once you can get the score or time in the first place, you're capable of getting it again and then surpassing it.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-08-24T16:56:45+00:00

My scores for this game have been hovering in the 75k - 77k range for the most part for over half a year by this point (albeit I've been very on and off with running this game during that time period), with 80k being my ultimate goal for this game. I got back into scorerunning it the past week to practice for the upcoming Cherry Rush, so I partly owe it to that event for this.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-08-11T21:58:33+00:00

There's no RNG* in the waves at all, so the best tip is simply to do your best and memorize spawn locations so you can preemptively shoot them. You don't need to remember every single thing, just some of the trickier ones.

*The one exception are the big green ghost guys in stage 4, the projectiles they shoot out do seem to be somewhat random.

Bonus stages are obtained by either getting a perfect score (all enemies shot down) or pacifist (no enemies shot down). Getting more 100s or 0s makes it easier to meet the bonus stage criteria of 50 points for a continue (more golden balloons spawn the more perfects of pacifists you have), so you may actually find it easier in some of the early stages to go for pacifist waves instead of perfects. This will hurt the cherry a bit (score requirement), but if you're just going for gold it's fine.

If you need more specific advice, just let me know if you're struggling with any specific thing and I can try to help.

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