On the fifth of February, a speedrunner and streamer called Jay12310 got the second ever sub-seven minute time in the 1.16+ Random Seed Glitchless (RSG) category for Minecraft speedrunning. To get times high up on the leaderboard, players need dazzling skill and unbelievable luck. Jay’s run had both of these, and his time is now ranked at second place on the leaderboards.
“I’m feeling pretty good,” Jay tells us, “I’ve been just trying to PB for a really long time now. My older PB was actually top five when I got it, but it was ninth place before I got this run.” He got his previous PB, or personal best, a little more than a year ago, so this new achievement is the result of months of work.
Alongside playing RSG, Jay is also a decorated Ranked player, having finished within the top 20 ranks in Seasons Five, Six, Seven, and Nine, and participated in Season Seven Playoffs. Jay also has speedruns on the leaderboards of other games including 2048 and McOsu.
Unlike Ranked where every seed each runner plays is guaranteed to be good, RSG requires runners to reset thousands of worlds to find a seed where a fast completion is even possible. Whilst most runners will reset a world any time the pace is getting slightly too slow, Jay prefers to play out runs more often than his peers. “I play to complete runs, because I enjoy doing that,” he tells us. “I feel like most people don’t complete a lot of runs, but that’s something I like to do.”
Jay wasn’t intending to get a sub-seven when he was playing that day. He was just working towards a new personal best when he rolled the seed. At the start, Jay’s run is undeniably fast, but it doesn’t seem like anything remarkable until he is entering the End. “The blind time was actually pretty slow,” Jay explains. “All the other top runs, they all blind around 4:30 usually, but that blind is at five minutes. So I didn’t really think it would be a world record.”
This second ever sub-seven time proves to the whole community that more sub-seven runs – and potentially even a world record – are very much in reach for anyone with the right combination of luck and skill.
Jay streams on both TikTok and Twitch, where he plays MCSR Ranked and is now aiming for the RSG world record.
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Good work Jay!!