Excellent level. I enjoyed it, a loooooot! !! :)))
EDIT (15 hours later):
Yesterday, after finding 261 I kept looking cause it felt there was more. But I couldn't find it and went to sleep, already expecting that I'd wake up to a lost record. That's exactly what happened, the surprise was it was Y150 who took it and that they ''only'' cut two moves. It then took me a while to find the 159, but it still didn't feel right (and I found TWO of those). So, I just kept looking and looking. It was kind of confusing, cause I wasn't sure how to combine all the possibilities of cuts that this level offers in the right way to get the shortest result. After 3 hours and 19 minutes (all together) I finally found the 257. I hope that is all.
This level was very interesting to me, because it reminded me of my Oliver Twist level (which was one of the first - if not THE first - levels of this kind (using downward tacos as the majority of manipulation going on). Perhaps this was another reason that I was so drawn to it.
I hope my 257 stands. If I see Y150 agree, I'll believe it's optimal. :)