It doesn’t necessarily take that much time to build PU speed. It’s just that the no-jump version Pannenkoek used in his WfRR 0.5 A-press strat builds speed really slowly. In the Vanish Cap level, you see Mario build up PU speed in about 3 seconds of constant BLJs.

A lot of modern text editors have an option to turn tabs into spaces when saving the file, so analyzing files might not be the most accurate way to measure this.

Join any speedrunning community and tell me that memes are dead.