The badge difficulty range in this game is extremely inconsistent. Seeing all the unique endings grants a "hard" difficulty badge? Getting 100,000 points in one run should be an impossible badge on its own. Saving 1,000 Kongpanions should be an easy badge, or a medium at best! It's all over the place!
To go fast, you can do slide canceling by spamming j and k back and forth separately very quickly, you need to have at least one dagger to do it. It's harder to pull off if you have Dexterity upgraded though.
I can't believe there are still hackers on the high score on literally any game...
I mean just take a look on "Total - Gummies Squashed" and
"Best Time (story)"
Thanks!