Minecraft speedrunning
The 2011 sandbox video game Minecraft is one of the most popular video games to speedrun. Speedrunning, the act of completing a video game as fast as possible, is accomplished in Minecraft by reaching the End Dimension, defeating the game's final boss, the Ender Dragon, and entering the middle fountain that holds the portal back to the overworld. Many online communities have sprouted around speedrunning and speedrunners have become an integral part of Minecraft's online fandom.
Minecraft speedrunning only became popular and mainstream around 2020; before that, Japanese players, the most prominent of which being Tarokitchen, had previously been the only ones seriously attempting runs. The world record for the most popular speedrunning category, Random Seed Glitchless on version 1.16+, is a time of 6:50 set by lowk3y_ on June 11, 2025.