Speaking of this run, I found a new shortcut in Devil's Rift (for those of you who know what it is). For those who care about this, but have no idea what I'm talking about, imagine an enormous mountain. Now put a huge hole in the middle of it and have lava everywhere, with a scientist falling into it. That's it. Anyways, I found a way to fall and land right beside the entrance leading to the next area :). The new fall saves about, 6-7 seconds, maybe more.
I've also perfected my speed jumping through the first area. After I speed through the catacombs, I get an extra boost off the hill and get propelled very fast to the house. Then when I get to the house, my intent is to open the door leading out of the house while I'm getting the umbrella (crowbar). This way, I can speed jump right out of the house, instead of opening the door, then doing a long jump out onto the little hill I found. If I land on this precise spot, I seem to get propelled faster to the broken bridge.
Also, I'm factoring into my route the sniper rifle in the barn, AND I'm going to pick up the magnum. I do this for several reasons. 1.) When I get to the helicopter, I ignore the zombie guy on the rock, and then when I curve around the helicopter, I shoot the box the other zombie is behind with the magnum, pick up the sniper rifle ammo, and immediately speed jump to Devil's Rift. I found a little hill to propell myself off of too, so I get there really quick. Getting hit by the zombies (almost never do) isn't too big a deal, because there's three health packs before I get to the tracks. 2.) When I get to the tracks, I'm going to snipe the zombie guys, then magnum the other zombie as I'm going up the hill. 3.) This insures I have enough health for when I have to grenade jump over the car. When I do that, I'm going to keep the speed of this grenade, hopefully all the way through the tracks until I reach the dam. My dream is to make it through partially untouched, then go up on the little platform on the dam, do a really far jump onto the shooting zombie's head, and over the little brick thingies. Once I do that, keep that speed all the way to the barn. From there, I'm going to go off the little hill, onto the barrels, and into the skybox. I highly doubt I'll EVER be able to pull that off, but if I could, sub 10 is extremely possible.
