Put some ideas below, most won't be added but if we see one we like we'll add it.

Thanks, picbear

Moan%, where you try to make any of lisa's dashing or climbing sfx as fast as possible

Level-5-Statue% (Mondstadt)
Level-5-Statue% (Liyue)
(or replace 5 with some other number, preferably one with a corresponding in-game achievement? I'm not sure about what achievements there are exactly)
(And actually many in-game achievements can be used as a run objective, like X chests, X seelies, X cooking recipes etc. Heck you can even do X achievements)

MapUnlock% (Mondstadt, minus Stormterror)
MapUnlock% (Mondstadt and Liyue, minus Stormterror)
(Activate all Statues to reveal map areas. Waypoints don't matter.)

Maggot% (Reach world border and have Paimon kindly tell you to turn back)
(Sorry for the wrong-language meme. Paimon's "How about we explore the area ahead of us later" line reads "前方的区域以后再来探索吧" in Chinese, and "区域" (qū yù, "area") kinda sounds like "蛆" (qū, "maggot"), so in Chinese communities the out of bound voice is jokingly called "Maggot ahead".)

I would say an AR 16 category, since it's the co-op unlock rank.

I did some thinking for this game, the leaderboard doesn't look amazing and should at least move the character domains (Amber, Lisa, Kaeya) to misc. and maybe add Diluc's one Domain Mission.

Besides that, I have noticed there is not Individual Level Leaderboard so I have an idea.
Put any domain that is an actual mission domain (the ones that feel like an actual mission besides the resource / artifact grinding ones) into an IL Leaderboard and run and optimize those. You can run these on a premade account (like an AR 40 account with OP teams) and try to optimize these. The reasoning behind it being any account with whatever gear / level characters is because some of these domains you don't get till the AR 30's sooo.

Anyways with that the Domains and specific Missions are:

Temple of the Falcon - Explore: Windy Cliff

Temple of the Wolf - Trial: Scorching Fire and Raging Lightning

Temple of the Lion - Investigate: Secret Hideout

Eagles Gate - Explore: Fallen Fortress

Domain of Forsaken Ruins - Explore: Lucky Encounter in the Clouds

Domain of the Wayward Path - Explore: Tarry Among the Peach Blossoms

Hidden Palace of Guizang Formula- Explore: Voyage to the Sanguine Sky; & Explore: Travels of the Moonlit Venturer

Of course in future updates there will be new domains and new areas containing new domains, just stick to the general "No resource / artifact grinding domains" as those are pretty much all the same, the mission like domains are more diverse.

I was thinking something of a foot race from point A to B and try to get the fastest time idk just a thought

Killing the dragon before HQ fastest time x)

44 4 Star Artifacts any%
Rules: wishes allowed from ingame currency without adding more,
If you pull a 5 star weapon or 5* character ur not allowed to use it during the run.

Im praying for 1.2 allowing speedrunners to shine here with ideas.

120-0 resin% glitchless. there are already speedruns on youtube on the bullshit which is the resin system. hell might as well make fun of it

How about making a no quit-outs category? I think it could be a nice addition since it would be more viewer friendly.

I would like to see domains and some boss fights maybe:) See who can create the best nuke build.

@LeeOhLeeOh what do you mean by that?

I think he means just not alt+F4ing mid run.

@picbearpicbear Yeah! I was just watching the current WR and he quits the constantly. I'm fine with that but as a viewer it was a little annoying. Also, I think it would take less real-time (I agree with the reload time remover btw). I would make a category where you can't quit the game after you have control of the character.

@LeeOhLeeOh the thing is Speedrunning is trying to complete the category as fast as possible and not entertain the viewer and at the moment Alt+f4ing is fastest, so atm we probably won't add that.

That's fair, I understand

Something interesting we could do is fastest time to travel from Mondstadt entrance to inside the cathedral. You would have to start on the furthest stone line in the entrance. There are plenty of ways to get there so it would be interesting to see what people would do.

Edit: I tried it myself and it runs a bit over a minute

interesting, except we are looking for categories of some amount of depth, Dandy's Race for example my be short but there is always plenty room for improvement.

A speedrun from the far checkpoint of Liyue harbor to mondstadt gates, this should be challenging and can be faster with certain items. As the game gets more maps and items, we can see other races to mondstadt or towns.

i'm planning on test running this to see how well it goes, the world is open but players will need to consider the landscape for the fastest run.

Sounds fun, I'll try and give it a go too