Has anyone been able to pull of landing on the Skiff on the Infinite Descent? I've done it a few times, but I don't think it's worth it. If you do it right, it makes lining up for the shortcut much easier, but it's actually pretty difficult to pull off consistently, and involves avoiding the gate at the top of waterfall. Just wondering if anyone has done it and managed to pick up time with it, or if it's just a "cool factor" route.

Yes, I've done it once, WITH hitting the gate (I think), but I was not flying straight and overall it wasn't worth it. It is something I want to be able to do at will, just for the fun of it.

Trying to hit that gate and swing over fast enough and at the right angle is really hard for me. I made it once like that, but wasn't straight on the skiff so I launched off of it into the cliff on the left and tumbled down. It's definitely something I avoid if I'm aiming to win.

Oh hey, you beat JDQuackers too! I'm legitimately in awe now.

You see, the time numbers you see in game are not the raw base numbers they work with. The number shown at a timing event gets scaled by a lot of factors (activity, target, are you facing towards Mecca, etc.) and then displayed to the player post game as rounded numbers with a clean UI presentation. A small adjustment to an sparrow may not be enough to change the displayed number, but (THIS IS A HYPOTHETICAL EXAMPLE) if your base time changed from 20 to 20.004, and then you achieved that time value every other game (at 30 games per day) over the duration of the entire three week event, you're actually getting a change in overall time spent even though the base number still reports as 20 in the UI.