Hah good for you, as I said I myself suck at anything that needs rhythm, but the metronome REALLY helped.

And nope I can't skip FMVs but according to hardoce people it still should be doable

EDIT: Oh okay, no problem

PROGRESS EDIT: Okay so far I am in the middle of the forest before the Plant Brain at time 54:53, rlouisw time here is 51:57, I think I should still be okay considering his time before Lich is 11:27 and I will be cutting alot of the stuff on CD 2/3. Still I wonder if I am just that much slower than him every segment or the PAL time is finally starting to show up.

I will try to get to Ice Cavern today, I will later today update if I managed to.