Lantern Row

Tutorial course

A lit street with one turn in it. The route is visible from the start.

What it is

Lantern Row is a lit street with exactly one turn in it. It is built so the whole route is visible from the start, which is the property that makes it a tutorial course rather than an easy one — you are never learning the map and the jump at the same time.

The route

Out along the lit street, one turn, and up. Sixteen jumps, none wider than 3.5 cells, and no drops anywhere on the route: it only ever goes up, 8 cells in total. The lanterns are lighting rather than decoration — the course is legible at night because they are there.

How to approach it

Take the turn wide. There is room for it, and cutting the corner is the only real way to fall off this course.

What it teaches: Turning while running, with no penalty for doing it badly.

By the numbers

Blocks	620
Footprint	52 × 78 cells
Height	10 cells
Checkpoints	4
Jumps on the solved route	16
Widest gap	3.5 cells
Total climb	8 cells
Start to finish	+8 cells

Measured from the geometry the game builds for lanterns, not estimated. Route figures describe the course, not a human run.

How it compares to the rest of the ladder

Ranked against all 23 courses on the same measurements, this one holds one place:

the fewest jumps of any course — 16 jumps

Outright places only — ties are not claimed.

Medal times

Derived from this course's own geometry, not typed in — how the times are worked out.

Medal	Time
Author	0:27.94
Gold	0:32.13
Silver	0:39.12
Bronze	0:55.88

Controls

What you need to start

Move	`WASD`Arrow keys work too.
Jump	`Space`
Sprint / lock on	`Shift`A latch, not a hold: tap once to arm sprint and a camera lock-on together, tap again to release both. Neither carries over into the next world you open.

Sprint is a latch rather than a hold — tap it once and it stays on. Every control, keyboard and touch, including respawn, restart and the camera keys, and all of them rebindable.