the in game timer is pretty incosistent. watch this video i made about it. if you don't wanna watch it, im gonna resume it. basically, it seems that the timer goes slower/faster depending on your computer's speed, while not actually affecting the frame rate (exception being the waterfall section). this means that you have a slower timer while playing at the same speed as others. i made some comparations and i had the fastest timer while fabe and zipstyke had an slightly slower timer. but actually watch the video, it makes sense.

I noticed it too, the problem is that if we count irl time then if your game runs slower you have mutch smaller chace to get a good time. So it wouldn't really be more fair, than the igt now.

Edit: I did some "testing" and when my computer was overwhelmed (AKA, i opened ton of games and youtube tabs) in 1 minute the igt read 31:35 (31 seconds) When I wasn't overwhelming my pc in 1 minute the igt read 32:02 (32 seconds) so it seems like it doesn't difer that mutch depending on the cpu/memory usage.

yeah, i don't really know how much the cpu affects the timer, or what does at all. i just know that different runners have different timer speeds on their runs, which doesn't make much sense. about irl time vs in game time, i did too consider it could be unfair for those with low end pc's, but i haven't notice much slow down in the frame rate itself on any of the runs submited to the leaderboards (only in the water section, because it's poorly optimized), it's just the timer itself that goes at a different speed, making me think that's the way the game shows lag, but i don't actually know so i think i have to do some more testing on that. i guess if you have a bad pc you could just put the graphics to the lowest possible.

In the settings the graphics changes the time too, i made a crapy video about that . So irl time is definetaly the best option, though the times are have to retimed because i dont think livesplit has Checkpoint specific split options.

Im not a programer but it would also help if we could somehow get our hands on the games source code(altought i dont have high hopes for that)

we are currently working on that. rules are going to be changed in the next couple of days to RT (real time) instead of IGT. retiming is gonna be manually done by the moderators so speedrunners don't have to worry about that. about livesplit, you can make your own splits, though i don't think it makes much sense since the order of the levels is completely random, so your best segments are gonna be real funky lol.

i know i said "in the next couple of days" but i had time so i already changed it lol. rules have been changed! i also had to re-time every run on the leaderboard lol, but it was worth it. no mor in game timer shenanigans