The keys to getting a world record are perseverance, dedication, and using a seed so you get credit early every time. Other than almost botching the last action, not talking to the head at the first time of asking, and accidentally switching the scroll twice instead of once after freeing Otis, the run went pretty well, with no significant time losses. Great insult fights, and good catacombs.

Shout-outs to zergu12 and hyperformance for countless optimizations on pretty much every screen. Studying those runs has been delightful. Also shout-outs to LeoLitz and frozenspade for the seed to get the fastest possible combination to open the safe.

Played on ScummVM 2.9.1 using 102545962 as random seed. My keyboard setup:

• 1: Open ScummVM global main menu
• 2: Push (S)
• 3: Pull (Y)
• 4: Same as right click (Tab)
• 5: Restart the game (F8)
• w: Give (G)
• e: Use (U)
• r: Pick Up (P)
• x: Look At (L)
• c: Open (O)
• q: Scroll up (Q)
• z: Scroll down (A)
• f: Answer 1 (1)
• a: Answer 2 (2)
• s: Answer 3 (3)
• t: Answer 4 (4)
• g: Answer 5 (5)
• b: Answer 6 (6)
• h: Talk To (T)
• v: Same as left click (Enter)
• Space: Skip dialog (.)
• d: Skip cutscene (Esc)
• Caps Lock: Combined with numbers, quicksave (Alt)
• Alt: Combined with numbers, quickload (Ctrl)
• j: Combined with Alt/Ctrl, quicksave/quickload during insult fights (7)
• left arrow key: Combined with right Ctrl, enable/disable scroll snap (R)
• n: Toggle mouse capture
• Enter: Start the timer and split
• Right shift: Unsplit
• Backspace: Stop the timer