What is the Minecraft speedrun world record as of 2022?

For years, speedrunning Minecraft has been a challenge many players have taken on. Out of thousands of players, only a few of them are fast enough to get their names on the leaderboard. In 2021, one player set the world record of completing the game in under 10 minutes.

Speedrunning is a style of gameplay where players try to complete a game as quickly as possible. Thousands of Minecraft players have tried to speedrun the game in various categories, but the Any% Glitchless - Random Seed, 1.16+ title goes to one player.

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Who holds the world record Minecraft speedrun as of 2022?

Cube1337x holds the Minecraft speedrun record as of 2022 by completing the game in just nine minutes and eight seconds. Before Cube1337x, Brentilda held the world record in 2021 where they completed the game in nine minutes 36 seconds.

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How Cube1337x set the Minecraft speedrun world record

Like others, Brentilda started his Minecraft speedrun in the 1.16 version of the game. He entered the world and quickly found a village, which gave him a head start. He gathered all the items he could get from the village like food, beds, wood, and iron.

The player instantly found a shipwreck for resources (Image via YouTube/Cube1337x)

Like every other speedrun, Cube1337x spawned on a random world in the 1.16 version of the game. They quickly found a shipwreck, looted several iron ingots and quickly made a set of tools. With the boat’s wood, they made a boat and started exploring more of the ocean. Soon enough, they found a cluster of magma blocks in a deep trench. They swam down the trench and instantly made a nether portal to enter the hellish realm.

They were quick to find a Bastion Remnant and gathered all the Piglin mob in a hole to barter with them. This process is essential in the speedrun since players get loads of items, including ender pearls that are important to progress further. Once enough ender pearls were gathered, they started searching for a Nether Fortress. They quickly threw a few ender pearls to teleport from place to place and finally landed on the structure.

Both Bastion Remnant and Nether Fortress is essential in a speedrun (Image via YouTube/Cube1337x)

They fought loads of Blazes and strategically knocked all the Wither skeletons off the bridge so that they don’t inflict the wither status effect. Killing Blazes is also an important part of the speedrun since players need blaze rods to craft eyes of ender in order to find the stronghold. Once they had gathered enough blaze rods, they headed back to the Overworld and threw one eye of ender. After observing its direction, Cube1337x went back into the Nether and traveled a few blocks in the same direction in order to travel eight times the distance in the Overworld.

After they built another nether portal to head back into the Overworld, they were shocked to see that the portal directly teleported them inside the stronghold. This is an extremely rare occurrence that saves a lot of time in a speedrun. Cube1337x quickly went to the end portal room and filled all the eyes of ender to enter the End realm.

Cube1337x cleverly found the stronghold and defeated the Ender Dragon with beds and respawn anchors (Image via Sportskeeda)

In the End realm, the player quickly created some beds and respawn anchors in order to create an explosion and harm the Ender Dragon. Usually, speedrunners use loads of beds that they steal from a village. However, Cube1337x skipped that process and took some glowstone from the Nether in order to make respawn anchors that also explode in the End realm. They waited for the dragon to perch down and immediately defeated the beast with explosions.