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I've thought about that a lot, but I'm not sure getting coins a few tenths earlier is faster in this case.
The point is that, if I'm not mistaken, coins influence your speed while shrooming too. With 1-1-1, you use your first shroom when you have 7 coins. With 0-2-1, you use it when you have 9.
With 1-1-1, you get the 8th and 9th coins when the clock is at approximately 26"4, and you get the last one when it's at approximately 40"4. With 0-2-1, you get the 8th and 9th coins when the clock is at approximately 26"7, and you get the last one when it's at approximately 40"4.
If I'm not mistaken with these calculations, it means you only spend three additional tenths with two more coins (the time saved by a shroom on a straight). Assuming that, on TC, coins save exactly a second over a lap, it means that two coins save 2 tenths over 26 seconds, which means they save around 3-5 thousandths over three tenths... this makes me think the amount of coins you have when shrooming is more important.
It also matters that, I think, the shroomspot before the pool is slightly faster than the shroomspot at the tables part. That's because your shroom ends in midair, and some of its boost remains until you touch the ground.
I've tried all these strats a lot, and I got my best overall splits with the current strat. But it's just my own experience, so I can't confirm it's the fastest strat for sure. But what I currently know about it leads me to believe it's the optimal one out of these strats. If there's any difference between them, though, it's incredibly small, and perhaps the deciding factor isn't the strat itself but how well each player executes the various shroomstrats.
I'm not sure if I've made any mistakes with the considerations in this post, and if somebody found out any of this is incorrect and another strat is faster I would like that, it'd be cool to see new strats on the track. But I haven't managed to find anything faster myself.
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