After doing a bit of research (and I mean 10 minutes), I made this. It shows how the WR improved, and major improvements found in runs. 6-30-17: Flutter 12:47 https://www.speedrun.com/Super_Minecraft_Maker/run/y970ko2m 8-13-17: Bingogreenpig 12:10 https://www.speedrun.com/Super_Minecraft_Maker/run/y9797oem 8-16-17: Lul_ecks_dee 11:41 https://www.speedrun.com/Super_Minecraft_Maker/run/y97903rm 8-16-17: Lul_ecks_dee 9:09 (3 hours after 11:41, video deleted WutFace) 8-22-17: Lul_ecks_dee 6:23 WITHOUT chest click https://www.speedrun.com/Super_Minecraft_Maker/run/zxvg2wgy 8-31-17: ReverseVideo performs chest click strat (optimally 1:04 improvement) in an 11:52 run https://www.speedrun.com/Super_Minecraft_Maker/run/z5orq5jy 9-19-17: Lul_ecks_dee 5:59.04 (https://www.speedrun.com/Super_Minecraft_Maker/run/zq6vnw9y) 2-04-18: Lul_ecks_dee 5:58.3 (Unverified) 2-04-18: Lul_ecks_dee 5:24 (Unverified)
I'll go through and explain each of the runs (or at least the ones I've seen / know about). The 12:47 was the FIRST run ever completed. I haven't watched this one, but for a relatively new speed game at the time, just like any newly introduced speed game, the RNG and execution were probably not too good. I think the only reason there was no competition against the record for 1 and a half months is just because there was no one really running the game. Flutter should have probably tried to lower her time during those 1 and a half months, before more people start coming to lower the time. And, that's EXACTLY what happened. Bingogreenpig made a decent improvement to the WR less than 1 and a half months after the first run. Through the time I watched the run (I wanted to make sure I was correct about the chest click being first performed in a run by Reverse), I saw one level, and it was a maze. He went through the level in about 30 seconds, which is a pretty good amount of time. A new runner, Lul_ecks_dee, started with an 11:41 time. This was an improvement to the WR, by about 29 seconds, but I'm sure no one expected what happened next. A mere 6 days after his first ever run, Lul_ecks_dee got AMAZING luck, and finished the run with a 6 minute and 23 second time. No one EVER expected this. He proved that he was truly the best at Super Minecraft Maker. But, not everything was over yet, for Lul_ecks_dee. ReverseVideo started running in late August, and although his time wasn't too good to start out, it had a strategy that really would have helped for Lul_ecks_dee. He got an 11:52, which was minutes behind of the world record, but he utilized something that I'll call "the chest click". Before ReverseVideo's run, every runner waited for the ending screen to show up, then clicked the "Continue" button. There is an ender chest on your hotbar that has a menu option. If you had this in your hand just before getting to the beacon, hit the beacon, and then right clicked and pressed "Continue" from there, you wouldn't have to wait for this menu to appear. With fast enough clicks, this trick could save 3.5 - 4 seconds on every level, which adds up quickly over the span of 16 levels. If this trick was discovered before Lul_ecks_dee's astounding run, it would have been a 5:19 time, which would have stood as the world record, even today. Even though ReverseVideo had this trick and could have easily used it to get a new world record, Lul_ecks_dee striked back before he could. In mid September, Lul_ecks_dee used this trick to his advantage, and got the first sub 6 minute run. It wasn't by much, only a second, but this was the first sub-6 ever. Then, everything suddenly went silent. There was no activity in the community, except for the occasional run by Lul_ecks_dee in January 2018, and my 9 minute and 8:31 (unpublished, waiting for my computer to be fixed so I can get access to the file) times in January. On February 4, 2018, I had watched Lul_ecks_dee play Super Mario Bros. in a race for 3 completions. It took an hour, I asked him to come back to Super Minecraft Maker, and he agreed to do it since I had to sit through that race. Little did he know, this would be the luckiest day he had ever played Super Minecraft Maker, ever. He got a 5:58.3 time, not even an hour into the stream. But this would not be the only world record out of this stream. Not even 30 minutes later, he got another run that was on pace. But he didn't just edge out his personal best. He beat his 5:58 by 34 whole seconds, getting a 5:24 time. Not as good as the 6:23 that could have been a 5:19, but it's the closest that our small community will ever get through for a while. We can get sub 5 minutes, but it's definitely going to be hard. Me and Lul_ecks_dee are going to try and get sub-5 first, but I'm gonna be a little delayed, although with the WR holder not running too much, I could definitely get it first. You never know with a game that has mostly RNG to account for it's time optimizations.
