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Time Attack: all 8 courses and their medal times
Eight fixed courses, always the same, against the clock. Here are the exact time for every medal, how the courses open and what each medal pays.
Data taken from the game’s code · version 2.0 · Updated 29 September 2026
How it works
- Each attempt costs 1 energy (free while an unlimited-energy pass runs).
- Courses are not random: each is always the same run of chunks. You fly against a ghost of your best time, with 3 checkpoints (a quarter, half and three quarters of the way) showing the split.
- No coins in flight, no stamps, no figures and no revives: a crash ends the attempt. No adverts between attempts either.
- Four medals per course: bronze, silver, gold and dev — the studio’s time and the ceiling of the mode. A better medal also counts as every lesser one.
- XP: 20 + 4 × the course number when you finish (24 to 52); otherwise 1 per 3 obstacles, up to 15.
- Every course has its own world leaderboard for best time.
The 8 courses and their times
Reach the goal in that time or less.
| # | Course | Bronze | Silver | Gold | Dev | Opens with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fold Line Girders only, wide gaps. | 25.00 s | 24.00 s | 23.00 s | 22.75 s | Open from the start |
| 2 | Rivet Row Dense static girders. Commit to a line. | 43.00 s | 42.00 s | 41.00 s | 40.85 s | Open from the start |
| 3 | The Bellows Pistons. Find the rhythm. | 36.00 s | 33.50 s | 32.75 s | 32.65 s | Open from the start |
| 4 | Slat & Shutter Shutters and shelves. Timing windows. | 33.00 s | 32.25 s | 31.75 s | 31.55 s | 3 bronze medals or better |
| 5 | Updraft Gust vents. Manage the drift. | 29.00 s | 28.50 s | 28.10 s | 28.00 s | 2 silver medals or better |
| 6 | Rotor Hall Fans. The first real wall. | 38.00 s | 37.00 s | 36.00 s | 35.25 s | 4 silver medals or better |
| 7 | Paper Mill Drums and guillotines. Mixed cadence. | 40.00 s | 39.00 s | 38.00 s | 37.90 s | 2 gold medals or better |
| 8 | The Crease Everything. Three checkpoints of escalating chaos. | 70.00 s | 68.00 s | 66.00 s | 65.00 s | 3 gold medals or better |
Medals count from any course: if you are one bronze short of opening course 4, you can win it on course 1.
What each medal pays
The first time a course earns a medal it pays in coins, along with every lower tier it had not been paid for. They are paid the next time you open course select.
| Medal | Pays | If you jump straight to it | Over all 8 courses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bronze | 50 | 50 | 400 |
| Silver | 150 | 200 | 1,600 |
| Gold | 300 | 500 | 4,000 |
| Dev | 500 | 1000 | 8,000 |
- Each course’s first gold (or dev) also leaves +3 energy in the Storage.
- Ribbon trails: a medal of that colour or better on all 8 courses. Bronze Ribbon, Silver Ribbon, Gold Ribbon, Dev Ribbon.
- Confetti (trail): 3 gold medals. Foil (plane): 8 gold medals. Carbon (plane): finish course 8.
- Quests: finish 1, 4 and all 8 courses, and a medal of each colour on all 8. See the quests.
See it for yourself
Paper Drift is free on iPhone and Android.
