Shovel Knight Any% IL Notes

I won't be submitting anymore of my times to the leaderboards on speedrun.com since the rules do not account for everything you can improve and does not account for improvements made that are under 1 second. Its also much easier to keep track of my times in 1 spot and not many people submit their actual best times to the leaderboards anyway.

Timing for ILs on the leaderboards: Starts on the first frame you input entering a stage or when you start a new game by selecting "yes" on the file select menu (Plains). Timing ends on the frame you start gaining gold after killing a boss or until the stage completely fades to black (Tower Entrance and Tower Ascent).

IL Leaderboards: http://www.speedrun.com/shovelknight/individual_levels

Timing for ILs in this pastebin: Starts on the first frame the stage fade in disappears (Exception: Timing for Plains starts on the first frame the file select screen is completely faded out). Timing ends when the stage completely fades to black (Plains, Tower: Entrance and Tower: Ascent) or land on the last hit on the final boss (Tower Lair)).

Plains:
Get gold for the last beetle on the first screen?
Skip the pogo on first dirt block in the second room? Get gold from the dirt pile
In the 1st checkpoint room, shovel swing the beetle right before landing on the platform. Land and then jump pogo the beetle?
Better movement from the slime in the 2nd checkpoint room
Pogo the drake before the 3rd checkpoint room?
Do the screen warp in the 2nd dragon room and land on the top platform

Pridemoor Keep:
Pogo of the last rat in the 3rd lava pot room
Pogo off the leftmost part of the 1st mages head and reach the top of the ladder sooner
Pogo the second lancer in the 1st lancer room
Pogo the last beetle in the first chandelier room?
Pogo the last dirt block sooner in the rat army room?
Jump over the lancer in the last chandelier room
Get a faster cycle in the last lava pot room
Faster King Knight fight

The Lich Yard:
Jump at the end of he second screen to pogo the dirt blocks faster?
Setup to grab the ladder at a higher point the 1st skeleplatform room?
Faster skull juggling for the the skeleplatform room?
Throw an orb at the skeleton on the last skeleplatform room
Land on a top platform in the last super skeleton room? Pogo off him sooner
Faster Specter Knight Kill

1st Dream:
Get hit as soon as you exit I frames

Lost City:
Faster 2nd room?
Faster 1st beetle skip setup
Faster 1st mole minion kill
No Dboost in the 1st checkpoint room
Unpogo at the end of the 2nd checkpoint room?
Throw 2 orbs at the first slime in the triple slime room. Do one big jump at the end and avoid landing?
Better orb throws after the 1st destroyed checkpoint?
Better slime ball knuckle setup in the 2nd moving platform room?
Shovel swing to break the lava blocks in the red knight room?
Jump off the 1st platform in the last mole minion room?
Walk off the ledge in the 2nd beetle room? Do the 2nd beetle skip setup
Faster Mole Knight Kill

Explodatorium:
Jump into the first dirt block pogo?
In the 1st rat room jump off the the first platform onto the beetle? Shovel the dirt blocks?
Damageless 1st checkpoint room? Knuckle the last wall?
Pogo the first bomb thrower?
Jump into and out of the room with the 1st spider?
Knuckle the bird in the 2nd Music Sheet room and the bomb thrower
Kill the alchemist before transformation
Faster 2nd to last flame cycle
Grab the ladder from the previous room in the last flame room
Knuckle the last checkpoint
Faster Plague Knight fight