I've seen many speedruns start out by once the world loads, the player toggles perspectives and inspects the world around them to plan where they're gonna go. That inspection time doesn't count towards their time because the timer starts when they make their first movement.

I'm curious, what is the time limit to this? Is there one? The reason I ask is because if I'm doing a cake speedrun and I load a new world and spawn next to a chicken, am I allowed to sit there for five minutes and wait for it to plop out an egg before I start moving and start my timer? I know that probably sounds unreasonable but I feel like that inspection would be allowed by the same rule that allows people to toggle perspectives and inspect their world before their timer starts.

TLDR; is there a time limit to inspect your new world before you make a move and the timer starts? Serious question.

You’re not allowed to do that at all. The timer starts when the world loads in. Anything else is wrong, including those runners you’ve been watching.

If you don’t want to start the run straightaway, bring up the pause menu before you start the timer. As soon as you’re in the world and not paused, the timer should be running. The only situation in which looking around is permitted is in co-op runs, where the server owner typically heads in to check the seed before doing /time set 0 just as the other players join in.

Ok thank you so much benchbotch, I didn't know that so I'm glad you told me. Thank you a ton, I'll make sure to stop doing that. And yeah those other people must just not know that, if I ever watch any of their videos where they do that I'll let them know.

Maybe you have seen some Category Extensions runs, because there it is allowed in most of the categories.

But in normal Any% that does count to your run time.

idk now new rules with the rest, but i remember that a rule was specificaly added for cake% in that aspect

When toggling and looking around, your IGT starts, however, ur RTA is allowed to remain at 0 for up to 1 second. However, this doesn't matter too much anyways since everything is timed in IGT anyways. You're allowed to do it and start ur RTA timer later, but there's no point in doing so anwyays.