Ideas for any%

I have 3 ideas for any%, are any of these 3 viable

1. If you successfully get the soul dupe off up the knight, you then buy the weapon box instead of the battle axe and use RTSR short sword to kill gargoyles. You then do Sif after Seath with a +4 halberd 27 STR and moveswap (can do while sif door is opening), this keeps the RTSR the same (unless you can only level VIT after seath and take two lightning shots while running/backstepping and keep). You can dupe the gwynevere bone to dupe a bone at seath, leaving you a bone to use at sif (so you don't have to level VIT or lose souls).

The question is does this add up to time saved
- Lose some time on one extra warp to undead parish
- Lose some time with slower gargoyles with short sword (maybe moveswapping with short sword makes it faster)
+ Gain time on +4 (maybe +5) BKH, 27 STR, higher END and moveswap SIF

For Iron golem, to do with +0, you just do a jumping attack to stagger a leg, if you fuck up and do an R2 that can also hit the heel of the foot if you aimed it right and stagger the leg anyway. You can afford 4 bombs and 7 blossoms and get +2 BKH, 27 STR and 19 END at AL bonfire.

Assuming this idea does not work out, do the other 2 ideas help at all

2. Using moveswap in current any% route on Sif, sure midroll sucks but moveswap is pretty good

3. Just not buying the battle axe from Andre for gargoyles and using short sword RTSR (maybe with moveswap). Only doing this if you get the soul dupe, so you do not have to kill oswald. You save the 5-6 seconds not killing oswald and time it takes to walk to andre to buy stuff from him.

Idea 1 and 3 both require getting the soul dupe, but don't require any prior commitment. So should you not get the soul dupe you can run the route like normal.