It's possible beat the game whith 6 or more challenges whitout get the ring of speed?

Won a 9chal huntress run today with no Ring of Haste. Tried transmutating my rings like 3 times but never got lucky.

Rooted everything with Wand of Regrowth and just sniped them from behind the grass. Hourglass kept me mobile from big danger.

Got a Vampiric Quaterstaff +2 from early floors coupled with a Ring of Arcana so that got me trough the early game.