Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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I started running this category February 19th or 20th of 2020. At that point, I had barely been speedrunning Minecraft for 1 year.

March 1st, 2020 - I achieved a 3:29.200. The world record at the time was 3:11.100 by Crafterdark. It could have been WR, but whatever

March 14th - I achieve a 3:17.050. Still 2nd place, and by this point, Crafterdark had achieved a 2:46. So, the first sub 3 was off the table for me. But I was fine with that.

March 24th - I get 2.55.200. Of course, it's still 2nd place, but it was sub 3. I was very happy about this run, but it still wasn't WR of course.

April 13th - 2:42.550. World record. I was unbelievably happy about this, it was the first WR I had ever gotten, and I couldn't have been more excited. It wasn't a good run by any means, but a WR is a WR.

May 30th - 2:24.150. New WR Again. This run was quite a bit better than the 2:42. I was happy with the run itself, but I still wanted to improve it.

August 6th - 2:22.800. Lol

August 25th - 2:12.300. Good time

September 20th - 2:03.600. This run was incredible. My first 3 hit endfight ever, was played pretty well, and was very lucky. And this run proved hard to beat.

I continued running this category until mid-January of 2021, but I started to lose motivation. My 2:03 would have actually been a sub 2 if it weren't for some seeds, so that fact kinda eventually got to me. So I sat on this category for a while, even making an April Fools joke using it in April of 2021, where I "completed" the game in 1:57.250. Funnily enough, that joke run ended up being slower than the one this description is under.

As the MCSR grew massively over the following years, I didn't consider returning to SSP often. I moved onto other categories, despite people asking if/when I would ever get sub 2. I had tried playing the category again a couple of times over the next two years, but I didn't get much enjoyment out of it. So I wouldn't pursue a better time.

This changed near the end of 2022. I saw nsla (a fellow runner) doing SS runs in a vc, which is basically just SSP. This made me want to try SSP again, so I did. I went ahead and played it, and I had a lot of fun. I got some good paces, and finished a couple good runs. The next day, I played it again. I continued playing this category almost every day, because I was enjoying it. And, I wanted to get sub 2. More so, I wanted to finally fulfill the promise I had made to many back in the day, that I would get sub 2. Specifically for someone named MerciArsene. They were extremely determined with asking me if I would ever get sub 2, for quite a long time. They had been there watching me grind the category back in the day, so I thought it would be cool/funny to surprise them with a sub 2. And well, I did it. Directly after losing a slightly slower sub 2 to a bad charge, I got it. I'm so glad to have finally pulled this off after almost 3 years since I started running the category.



Now, about this run. It wasn't even that good. Bad overworld with a lot of mistakes, but with a lucky spawn, lucky cleric position, and first try flint. I threw it hard tho lol. The end enter wasn't anything too impressive, and the endfight was even a 4 hit. But hey, it was good enough for a sub 2. And I'm happy about that.

Now, will I try to improve this run? Maybe, we'll see. I guess time will tell.

Music used:
A Hat in Time OST - 66 Scootin' Through Clocktowers Beneath The Sea
A Hat in Time OST - 50 Toilet Of Doom