I assume that when manual timing, the timer starts when the world first loads, or when the first frame of video showing the world appears.

The question is, on timer stop point, or when the End Poem is triggered. Is this considered to be the first black frame of video after the Ender Dragon death throes, or when the first frame of dirt screen appears? There is a 0.27 second difference between the two.

I have been erring on the side of caution by rounding down to the nearest second at the beginning, and rounding up to the nearest second at the end. I don't think the category I run in (any% glitchless, random seed, 1.9+, vanilla, hardcore, no F3) really requires less than 1 second time resolution, but I would like to be as exact as I can be.

I asked the question in the "Minecraft Speedrunning Questions Thread" and @KilleDragon believes it is the first black frame after the Ender Dragon death throes BUT KilleDragon is not certain.

Is there an official answer?

Hi Everyone.

I am a Hardcore Survival Minecraft Java Edition Player. I prefer to play vanilla with no F3, but I will use Creative and/or Normal Survival for design and testing before I attempt something major in a Hardcore world.

I am not a professionally competitive speedrunner, but it is my aim to get to The End as fast as possible for Shulker Boxes of course.

I am a normal humanoid, and a bit older than most so it should come as no surprise that my fastest time so far is just under 1 hour 30 minutes for version 1.16.1 which I recorded this morning. I am still processing the video and it has not been uploaded and submitted yet, but it will be soon.

So hello everyone, and good luck in your runs!

Edit: spelling, may-->my. speed runner-->speedrunner (Thx for the correction @Matse007)