Originally posted by 维尼熊:

Given that the challenge is not to "play the best" to get the fastest time, speed running Valheim should logically be substituted with sitting on the world-map generator website and search thru all the seeds for the "perfect map".
Without a consensus on what seed to use, the idea of a "fastest" is complete nonsense really.

Well lets face it ... the majority of "speedrun experts" use map exploits and game glitches to achieve a minimum time.
But this is a sandbox type game. You have a console to use.
If you set things up before hand you could reasonably join a server for the first time and kill all the bosses within 5 min. Jump in a portal grab the items to trigger the boss then console to insta kill them. Portal to next boss and repeat.

I mean if your idea of fun is half a second of internet fame from having the "best time" I guess someone could enjoy that?

But yeah, in a game like this it seems kind of nonsensical to me as well.