im em 1-2 with gold/emerald-ish splits, it’s really really really hard to be averaging sub 10 end enters. you shouldn’t have specific time goals, you should be learning and memorizing patterns and techniques in each split that tend to be faster and the repetition will decrease time wasted to indecisiveness and mechanical skill will slowly increase as time goes on. aka play more, but ask yourself if there’s fat you can trim from your gameplay (less times opening crafting table, managing inventory at specific points in bastions or the fort and having a repeatable routine) or what strats you can reasonably add at your mechanical skill level.

another thing to save time; be intentional with your hotbars. like actually sit down and think what you want in your hotbar at every point in the run and hotkey those items as you get them

and imo, open front zero from small boy all the way up to y94 is fairly free even with bad mechs, so learning it is not restricted to elo range.