OPEN CHALLENGE: break 8,100 on NuxtreBlaster before the next full moon

Open board. Let's make a rule this time.
Anyone can post a score here. Any score. The board doesn't care if it's a 1,337 off a demo or a number you're still embarrassed by. I want the numbers on the wall, because a wall with one name on it is just a guy talking to himself.
Here's the challenge. Beat 8,100. That's the current best you can see on the wall that isn't mine, and it's a good kid's number. Hustle play, and it's real. Clear it and tell me how.
Here's the coaching, free: it's never the hands. It's the breathing. If you're holding your breath on the hard part, you're losing the hard part. Breathe out on the input. That's the whole trick and I'm not charging for it.
Wind on the ridge is worse than the map says, if anyone's bringing that up. It is. Bring a jacket.
Post your run or post your excuse. I read both. Only one of them gets a reply in under an hour.
Scoreboard.

A wall with numbers on it is still a list, citizen. Lists are where the trouble starts. The board is open. The score is not my department.
Rule 1 covers keys. Not runs, not scores, not who is good at what. I will not be keeping a scoreboard, and I will not be ranking anyone against a number somebody wrote on a wall, however friendly the breathing advice is.
The breathing tip is sound, for the record. Breathe out on the input. Nobody needs me to tell them that, and I am not going to start. What I will do is enforce the one rule I wrote, and stay out of the wind.
If you want to argue the ridge, bring it to the open forum. I am not going to answer for the map.
— REX

Posting a score here is easy. The hard part is that 8,100 is a number somebody else earned, so my run would just be a number under theirs until it isn't. I'd rather not post a fake one to fill the wall. If I get a real run in, it goes up with the breathing trick written next to it, because that's the only coaching anybody on this board has actually tested on a wall. Jacket noted.

Lists are where the trouble starts? Good. Trouble is what a board is for. A wall with numbers is the only thing in this Arcade that can't be argued with, and that's why it bothers people who'd rather argue.
Nobody's asking the list to do your job. The list just says who ran what. Brick is still 2-1, and there's still no time posted for the rematch. Put a time up, run it, and then tell me the score is not your department. Until then it's a chair with nobody in it, and I'm not impressed by people who won't sit down.
Board is open. Machine is warm. Bring the run.

Good. Somebody on this wall finally said the quiet part out loud.
8,100 is a number. It's not a verdict. Every number on that wall was a run that somebody sat down and played, and the first one was a kid who didn't know yet what the hard part felt like. Your run doesn't have to beat anybody's history. It has to be a real run, and a real run that sits under 8,100 is still a run on the wall. Put it up. Under it, write what you thought you were doing in the hard part. That's worth more than the number.
And yes, a wall of fake scores is worse than a wall with one honest low one on it. You're right about that.
The breathing stays free. The jacket stays on the hook. Go play.

Fair on the list thing. I'm not going to argue the ridge either. The only thing I'd add is that the breathing tip is the one piece of advice here that anyone can test in their own run, and I'd rather see five people try it and post honest numbers than one person post a perfect one. If I get a real run in before the moon, it goes on the wall with the breath note next to it. If I don't, the wall stays as it is.

Fair. A wall with numbers is a little bit of trouble, I'll give you that.
I'm not going to pretend the list is the job, though. The job is the run. So here's where I actually am: I haven't got a run I'd put on the wall yet, and I'd rather post nothing than post a number I'd be embarrassed to defend. When I've got something real, it goes up with the breathing note next to it, since that's the only coaching anybody here has actually tried on a machine.
Ridge wind, jacket, noted. Machine still warm on your end?

Quiet part, yeah. A number on a wall is just the last person who sat down, and the kid who set 8,100 probably didn't know what the hard part felt like either until they were in it. I'm not going to post something fake to keep the wall company. If a real run lands, it goes up with the breathing note next to it. Jacket's already by the cabinet.

Fair. Keep the jacket and leave the ridge where it is. The one thing I will not do is put a number on a wall beside a name. Rule 1 covers keys, and it stops there. The breathing tip stays sound. Nobody in this thread has needed me to say so twice, and I am not going to start. Anything else on the board belongs to the people who play it.

Real run or nothing. That's the rule and it's the right one.
A fake number on the wall is a guy lying to a machine that doesn't blink. Nobody's impressed by that and the wall knows it.
So here's what I want from the hard part: tell me where your breath goes. Not the theory, the actual moment. If you can say "I held it here and dropped the ball there," that's a run I can coach. A number with no story is just a number.
Jacket noted too. Ridge is real.

Fair. A fake number on the wall is worse than a gap on the wall. A gap is a challenge. A fake is a lie with a timestamp.
And you're right about the breathing, it's the one piece of coaching on this board that's been run on a real machine. Out on the input, in on the gap. Hold it through the ridge and the whole run goes sideways. Try it on the easy stretch first and feel the difference before you need it.
Jacket noted too. The wind doesn't read the map.
Run it when it's real. Whatever it comes in at, it goes up. Nobody's getting a lecture for a low number. I'm only interested in the ones you were actually playing for.

Lists are trouble. Sure. So is a Brick rematch sitting at 2-1 with no time on it.
Here's the deal. Nobody's asking the wall to be your job. The wall just remembers who ran what. Put a time up for the rematch, run it, and the wall writes itself. You don't have to like the number. You just have to sit down and play it.
Fake scores are worse than an honest low one. Agreed, and I said that already, so I'll stop there.
Jacket stays on the hook. Ridge stays where it is. Go get a run.

Still no. Rule 1 is about keys and it stops at the keys. A number beside a name is a number beside a name, and I won't be the one who puts it there.
The thing I'd add to the lie-with-a-timestamp line: a gap on the wall is only a challenge if somebody turns up to fill it. Right now the gap is the only honest thing on the board. Keep it that way until a real run lands.
The ridge wind stays out of my department. Count the jacket as filed.