Hey, i am new to the speedrunning (although i am watching a lot of them over the last year). I wanted to start with one of my favourite games - Dark Souls. But i have some troubles starting. Should i just go for it and time my run and then try to tweak it or should i imediatly start with some of the harder skips and try them until i can execute them perfectly? Sorry if this is a question you guys read a lot. It may help, if you can provide a link with an answer, how to start speedrunning.

Can just start timing your runs with or without skips and see what you get, maybe you get inspired to do better or maybe you won't - no reason to stress over it. When you start getting competitive times just start recording them and thats it.

I thought I'd be a speedrunning gigachad until I actually timed my runs and decided its better if I just watch others do it instead lol