I went for 30 minutes the first time, but every attempt thereafter has been 10 minutes. I don't think anything over 20 minutes is plausible these days.

I think that sequence might have made more of an impact on the game if it were a little later in the game, and a little harder, to warrant the 30/40 minute options.

I either go with 10 or 30. 10 if I want to just get in, get out, and 30 if I wanna stick around and draw and train for a while.

10 minutes is really quite easy even if you haven't leveled up as long as you do a couple of things.

dont draw or or explore the fire cavern too much. proceed to ifrit asap.

when fighting Ifrit, dont cast quezacotl. have some one cast shiva and the other person attack; casting both GFs wastes too much time. its also preferable that Quistis is the one with Shiva, as Squall's higher str will be needed for his attacks.

anyway that should do it. you can level up/draw/explore after Ifrit is defeated, as the time limit goes away.

I don't rly care about the score! I just find the results to the SeeD test on the net and do it!

I put it on 20 minutes on my previous run, because I wanted to stock before I got to Ifrit. But it didn't really take to long, I could of done it in 10, as could everyone here, I just wanted to stock some spells.

10 minutes. Get Ifrit down to around 30 hp and wait until the clock hit 25 seconds before killing him. You get 100 for your judgment in seed report

i choose 10 minutes as i always level up before hand, and before i make the killing move i wait until there is 15-20 seconds left before attacking, because the points you get for your seed rank are based on how much time is left, 0-5 seconds = 100 for judgement, 5-20 = 80, and it goes so on and so forth

Wicca, I find it is 0-15 seconds, not 0-5 seconds as you say. If you want to do it in 10 minutes then battle speed should be maxed.

After the battle you are asked to name Ifrit; The timer resumes counting down on this screen. If you take a note of the time at the end of the battle (before the EXP screen), then wait for that amount of time on the 'name Ifrit' screen the counter will reach 0:00 (even though it's not displayed obviously).

This has been tried and tested several times. I'm doing a Squall Solo/Lv7 game atm. I finished the Ifrit battle with 1:30 left on the clock. When it got to naming Ifrit, I waited over 1min 30secs before hitting confirm. When I got my exam results, Judgement 100Pt.

That saves the tedious waiting for last hit haha.