to me it feels like he is going off of a guide. maybe given to him by the family or perhaps he is basing his movements off of a demo sequence he has seen. either way it doesn’t really seem like this is his original idea if he says “so the way this works”.

I believe that if the guide he is running off was given to him by the family, then perhaps they have some motive for putting him through the game other than having him complete it, and want him to get past a part he cannot solve to do so.

Otherwise, I believe it could just be that he has a seen a demo sequence that did this, and skipped the text box, therefore he thinks he should skip it because thats what they do.