Temple Grounds

Industrial Site

If you are not using ILS and/or are doing 100%, you can traverse this room very quickly with a ghetto jump as you do not have space jump yet. Do not scan the post to move the crate yet; there is a slant between the bar to the right of the post, and the square crate to the right of the slant. Ghetto jump off of this to get on the square crate to the right, then jump on the big one that the scan post moves. Scan the post, watch the cutscene where the crate moves; Samus will be on that crate during the cutscene. At the end, you'll fall from the ceiling and in front of the door leading to Temple Assembly Site. This saves more in-game time as the cutscene does not count towards the in-game timer.

Agon Wastes

Bioenergy Production

You can climb this room and skip the puzzle quickly after defeating the flying space pirates. The trick involves locking on to the scan post, but making the game think you aren't pressing L hard enough to actually scan the post. Then while locked on without scanning, go to the left of the three rising platforms, scan it, then jump to the higher ledge while the platform is rising.

An easy way to manipulate the controller calibration is the follows:

1. Lock on the scan post with L suppressed all the way.
2. Before it finishes scanning, pause the game.
3. Unplug your controller. Suppress L until just before it clicks, then keep it held there.
4. Plug your controller back it while suppressing L as mentioned above. Press L all the way after plugging it back in and keep it locked there.
5. Unpause. Move Samus to the platform you want her to ride. Pause again.
6. Unplug the controller, let go of everything, plug it back in, then hold L all the way before unpausing.
7. You should now scan the post all the way. Skip the cutscene, then as the platform rises to the correct height, jump to the higher ledge.

If you fail this trick, you can still use a faster solution to solve the block puzzle. When at the scan terminals to move the blocks, lower the center platform once, and the left platform twice (instead of right once, center twice, left three times). On the left platform, there is a small lower ledge on the right side that you can jump to.

You can also use this trick to reach the energy tank quickly.