"Find a category you like and do it," Admiral continues. "Find new strategies, try new techniques, and if you get a world record along the way then great!"
This seems like something you'd appreciate and should be given a shot. One thing that everyone agreed on was that the community is amazing. It's the one thing they share with every other builder I get to ask questions of - it's the players that make Minecraft, no matter how you play it enjoyable.
If you wanna be one of them, check out the minecraft forum on speedrun.com. There you can find the official leaderboards, along with videos, tutorials and a myriad of resources to help you get started. Get ready...
Minecraft servers list
...Go!
Many thanks to Illumina1337, Geosquare, Adrmiralstapler, and TheeSizzler for their contributions to this piece.
UPDATE: In the time it took to write this, the world record for Any Set Seed Glitched at % was taken from TheeSizzler by Admiral_stapler! There is no doubt that a lot more records will be broken before the publication is released...