Hello,
I would like to explain how to time a run for a single island.
Time Start: We start the timer at the moment you can move the Monarch around. When checking a submission I will write down the timestamp of that run (e.g. 12:17)
Time Stop: We stop the timer at the moment when the victory screen shows the da of completion (e.g. 33:55). We do not stop time at the moment of paying the coins. Should you for some reason freeze the game between those moments, you will lose some seconds for the run.
Calculation:
We take the Time Start & Time Stop times and calculate the difference. I normally use a calculator like this one from grun1.com: http://www.grun1.com/utils/timeDiff.cfm This is the time we enter at the video. For the moment, we will recheck times for all top 5 run submissions for a category and edit the times in the submission.