Something struck me as I watched the Alienware Cup last weekend, and again today during D2L. When you watch a top-tier carry player farming, you assume they're getting virtually every last hit. So when we say the following timings:

• Hand of Midas - 6:00

• Battlefury - 12:00

• Radiance - 16:00

• Linken's Sphere - 20:00

• Blink Dagger - 10:00 (Batrider jungle)

We're roughly estimating based on a carry with near-perfect last hitting. But what is the actual fastest you could possibly get a Midas in the safe lane? I know the creeps give variable gold amounts, but let's just say:

• Creeps always give the average of their gold bounty

• Lane or jungle creeps only; can't do both

• No hero kills

• Not counting courier travel time

• Doom and Alchemist don't count

What's the real floor on how fast you can get these items? Every now and then we see something that completely floors us (<10min BF on Burning, <4min Midas on Loda) but I think it would be good to find out for certain how fast you can really be.