Been talked about a lot in streams but never timed so here, doing the lever skip is roughly 3.5s over doing lever optimally. You do this by doing a mini boob at the bench room, fluke so you can wings again, and then walljump, wings and (optionally but preferably in my experience) dash in the wall to the left before you walljump up to the transition above. Dash slash on elevator was tested and didn't seem to save any time. Retrying the boob into walljump wings is ~2s so if you can do it within two tries it's still good.
0.5s faster than normal strat. You can tell that you got the wcs if your dash is slightly above the ground after the transition. If it's on the ground, then just do the normal strat. If you get the wcs, then hold left until you get passed the wall and then hold right to cling and do the dashes. When you are getting the chest make sure that you wait a tiny bit to fall down, otherwise you'll just pogo off the breakable object and miss the chest
If you need 3 hits of soul on the way to Watcher Knights, then you can do this strat to get 3 hits without losing too much time. Haven't timed how long it takes compared to normal strat, but getting the soul can be worth sometimes. You need to hit the rava immediately after the 2nd wall jump otherwise he'll be too far away to get the 2nd hit with the upslash. As long as you hit him with that first nail hit you will never dash into him. Not too difficult to do with some practice.
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