This is coming from the same series that makes you collect 200+ rings while falling in a tube on a snowboard, and you can get about 205 if you're damn good. Where was this? Whatever, doesn't matter. <-- Advance 1 Purple Emerald Okay, I've never played this game, so I wouldn't know.
And also the "Get 100 rings in ~60 seconds" Secret Mission in Sonic Jam's Sonic World which is also ridiculously hard. May I note that we have this chart on TSC? Way to shoot yourself in the foot. <-- We in fact, do not. The 100 ring mission TSC tracks is different to the secret mission. Never played this game either, so I'll take your word for it.
And er, describing how you are -forced- to miss points to keep up with Johnny is better than being able to go rack up a hi score? Dude are you even being serious anymore. And in Sonic Advance 3 by doing time attack instead of easy mode on adventure I am -FORCING- myself to have to dodge more enemies. TSC isn't always about the easiest or fastest way, otherwise we would have 0 seconds on all SA2 m2s or 9,999,999 points on Cosmic Wall. <-- Except the former is impossible, 8:25 would be achieveable with abuse of the pause menu and the latter is only possible with the use of stacking speed shoes in order to clear a huge jump. Both are possible. For the ~0s thing, you can restart after a restart/death to drop your time even further. For Cosmic Wall, it uses a new glitch that is perfectly legal in everything but score, not a widely banned speed shoe glitch.
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So considering that you have to beat Johnny, and in the purple emerald race in particular, you literally have no time at all to spare, Purple Time == Purple Score. Except not. I severly doubt to beat Johnny you have to hit the exact same rings and boost at the exact same enemies every time. <--I dare you to try and prove that consistently There are hundreds of rings and about a hundred enemies and spikeballs. Do you honestly think that you will always hit the exact same combination every time you do it?