We should have a race between Paladin and Sorc entries.
I think it’s very close for untwinked, certainly Paladin can do sub 200h. The estimate of "sub 250" I gave for Lucid was just to be on the safe side after adding an error margin on every area/stage I ran (see write-up for estimates), because I couldn't keep track of exact numbers given run counter didn't work on Mac. Based on my actual notes on run times, he took 220h plus 7-8h lost from deaths. This also included some 15h of farming Shako + Arach at Meph because they just wouldn't drop, and more or less average luck in farming Enigma.
Probably for both characters the route should be straight to LK => Meph => CS => Nihl. Sorc can swap Meph and LK ofc but doesn't matter really. Sorc might need to beef up at Pindle or AT a bit but that's not significant time.
Pally needs a couple more hours to get to Hell LK and then it takes him longer because he needs to farm Enigma. But Sorc also needs at least decent charms, CtA and Hoto to manage CS on P8. So assuming no crazy RNG during playthrough, it probably involves a good bit of LK grind for both, and the difference is not the "full" Enigma farming time as Paladin farms those other items along the way.
As for CS, for 97-98 I think we've established that Paladin outperforms Sorc by doing P8/P7 Diablo runs. Both
@PhineasB and I came to that conclusion with our Hammerdins.
Then for sub 98 we think of Blizzy as CS queen doing 2 seal runs – but the only scenario where I'd put my money on that is twinked. Untwinked it's not clear at all IMO.
First thing to consider is that even in a pretty much "perfect gear" scenario, Gripphon's Sorc and Pally numbers were very close: For 96-97 he estimated ~13 for Sorc and ~14.5 hours for Paladin (smaller difference for lower levels).
Then, my Pally was only ~10% slower than Gripp's fully decked out Hammerdin for 96-97, and that's really the thing for sub-98 overall: I don't think that ~10% gap between twinked Pally and untwinked Pally is the same for Sorc. In fact untwinked Sorc missing full skiller inventory and DFathom has a major impact on her performance because every + skill level and +CSD counts. For Paladin on the other hand it's whatever once he has his runewords – he doesn't rely on skillers really, their impact is much lower for him than it is for Sorc. Then there's Fathom which cannot be counted on untwinked, and this item is a big reason for her CS OPness.
If I had to make a prediction, I'd say probably Sorc has a slight edge mostly because Sorc so good for 98-99 and more or less even until 98 all things considered. But one key drop (or lack thereof) can easily swing it either way.