Easily possible. Well... not easily but if you add all the best individual level segments from speedrun.com in a minutes and seconds calculator, you get that (approximately) 55 minutes is possible

There might be a way to trigger the credits in Mushroom? Highly unlikely but maybe

@RadixSmash But there's still selecting the next kingdom, talking to Cappy, cutscenes and loading screens.

If you add all that it's a little under 1:02

I am sure sub 1:00 will be possible sooner or later. Either movement will be optimized to the max or new glitches will be found, but imo there is no doubt that this will be a thing.

@RandomTed the only thing that is counted in that list is selecting the next kingdom. Talking to cappy, cutscenes and loading screens are already timed so all we have to worry about is selecting a kingdom, which I highly doubt would take 5+ minutes

@RadixSmash there's a guy named Hayano who put together the top runners' golds on a document, and the best time at the moment is a 1:01:xx. I'm pretty sure someone has already sent the doc in this thread, so scroll back a bit to see it. We're not at sub 1 yet.

Also, none of the ending cutscenes are timed, so it's a lot more than just selecting a kingdom.

High 1:02 wr in the next few years? I know FMS wasn't allowed in any% until recently, but 1:02:12 is probably possible by August

Movement is hardly optimized at this point in time. There is so much tech that can be utilized, but isnt. Examples are cloud boosting, and dive vaults. Each of these little time saves save just a few seconds, but if we cant optimize it, it could probably save over a minute. I am expecting a sub 1 in these next few years. If not, then a sub 1 2p.

My guess is that we will see sub 1 hour via a major skip before we see a non-coop sub 1 without. Both will likely happen eventually though

i think that 2P will come first, considering it is over a minute better cause of 2P only skips

with future strats and clips discoverd within a year it might be possible

You can TAS for a 20 minute time save, here's how: In wooded kingdom, find the painting that goes to luncheon. From the platform, the jump is VERY hard but possible in 1 player, a bit easier in 2P. Once you are over there, you must get to the multimoon iN THE POT by aligning up the unlikable fire bro glitch with turnips and going ALL THE WAY up to the pot. This theory should spawn the Odyssey in the kingdom, as it is normally not there. Get the rest of the necessary moons and continue the story normally, and you saved 20 minutes, skipped cloud, lost, metro, snow, seaside. 41-min best possible time!

I said TAS because it is horrifically hard, it's not ACTUALLY TAS

I bet 2P sub 1hr is possible 1.0.0 full optimize

I haven't heard of Invincibro being confirmed in Luncheon. Other than that nice route, and we'll have to see how it works out after collecting the multimoon

I do believe that there are ways to hover bros in Bruncheon, specifically a theorized TAS-only strategy that would bring two bros up the volcano. Of course, we don't know a ) if the moon is there and b ) if it would spawn the Odyssey, softlock, or something else. There are also problems because the game might look for moons from, per se, Metro, and find nothing. This could also lead to crashes, locks, etc.

The moon is up there, you can get close normally and hear it