[EN] 1. How to submit a speedrun + Different timing methods

Submitting a speedrun is easy, it only requires a few steps :

**1.** Go to https://speedrun.com/trackmania and select a TrackMania game.

**2.** Go to the **Leaderboards** and select the category you have speedrunned, then click on **Submit Run**.

**3.** A form like this should appear : 
https://i.ibb.co/BNTr019/Submission-page-Trackmania-Stadium.png

**A) Category :** Make sure it is the category you have speedrunned.

**B) Player :** Leave the box blank.

**C) You are :** Click on **Player 1**.

**D) Time without loads (RTA w/o loads, for TrackMania² games only) :** This timing method doesn't take into account loading times between tracks, fill the boxes ONLY if you used the TrackMania Load Remover whose tutorial is just below.

https://youtu.be/cnRjG95OElw

**E) Time with loads (RTA) :** The total time elapsed from the start to the end of a speedrun, including the time spent in the menu and the loading times.

**F) In-game Time (IGT) :** The sum of your finish times on all the tracks you played. It can be calculated manually with the InGame Time Calculator ( https://www.speedrun.com/tmturbo/resources ) or directly during a speedrun with the Manual Game Time component in Livesplit. **If you restart a track, don't forget to take into account the time spent driving on the track before the restart by analysing your video frame by frame in a video editing software.**

**G) Maniaplanet (for TrackMania² games only) :** the Maniaplanet version of the game at the time of your speedrun. MP4 by default. For any speedrun done before 20th May 2017, click on MP3.

**H) Platform :** PC, XB1, PS4, DS or Wii depending on the TrackMania game.

**I) Date :** Fill with the date of your speedrun.

**J) Video link :** Share the Youtube or Twitch link corresponding to the video proof of your speedrun. For Twitch links, send stream highlights and not stream broadcasts because stream broadcasts are temporary.

**K) splits i/o :** Splits.io allows you to easily share your splits times to other runners. Upload a splits file on https://splits.io and share the ID corresponding to the file (ex : **4x5i** for https://splits.io/4x5i ).

**L) Description :** Comment your speedrun, give your track times for IGT speedruns, ask questions to moderators,...

[EN] 2. Livesplit timer : Description + Settings

The most popular speedrun timer is without any doubt Livesplit, a program developed by  [wooferzfg](https://speedrun.com/wooferzfg) and [CryZe107](https://speedrun.com/CryZe).
Numerous Livesplit tutorials are available on Youtube like the one from Linkus7 (see below), these tutorials are complementary to this guide. This guide is sufficient to speedrun TrackMania games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2cfeN9xHjM

Here is how to download and how to properly setup Livesplit for any speedrun :

•**Step 1 :** Download Livesplit : http://livesplit.org/downloads .  The normal version (1.7.7 as of January 2020) will be enough.

•**Step 2 :** Download the FocusedHotkeys and the PBChance components for Livesplit : http://bit.ly/2TbAvNn .

•**Step 3 :** Extract and put the **Livesplit.FocusedHotkeys.dll** and the **PBChance.dll** files in the **Components** sub-folder**.

https://i.ibb.co/k5Sf57j/Livesplit-Folder.png

•**Step 4 :** Click on the **Livesplit.exe** file to run Livesplit. You should see on your screen a small white timer with a black background.

https://image.ibb.co/jqD3DG/Speedrun_guide_Livesplit_timer_small.png

Do a right click on the timer, the following menu should appear :

https://image.ibb.co/cBnr0w/Speedrun_guide_Livesplit_menu.png

Put your cursor over **Compare Against** and click on **Personal Best** and **Game Time**. If you want to do real time speedruns (RTA, menu and loading times included) click on **Real Time** instead.

**Livesplit settings :**

Do a right click on Livesplit's main window, then click on **Settings**, the following menu should appear :

https://i.ibb.co/dLNRcSQ/Livesplit-settings.png

**Hotkeys :** Assign keys to basic Livesplit functions. The recommanded keys are shown on the screenshot above.

•**Start/Split :** Start your speedrun or do a split. Not used on TrackMania² games when the TrackMania Autosplitter is active.

•**Reset :** Reset your timer to start another speedrun attempt.

•**Undo Split :** Cancel the previous split to go back to the previous segment.

•**Skip Split :** Go directly to the next segment by skipping a split.

•**Pause :** **Not used for TrackMania speedruns** but it might become handy for other games.

•**Switch Comparison (Previous/Next) :** Switch between live comparisons (PB, Best Segments, Average Segments, current WR, a friend's PB…). Useful if you want to compare yourself with other runners.

•**Toggle Global Hotkeys :** Activate / Deactivate Global Hotkeys (see below).

**How to remember the recommanded keyboard shortcuts :**

**1, 2, 3 and 7 :** main TrackMania cameras
**4 :** left → start of the speedrun (**Start/Split**)
**6 :** right → end of the speedrun (**Reset**)
**5 :** center → middle of the speedrun (**Pause**)
**8 :** top → go up one segment (**Undo split**)
**2 :** bottom → go down one segment (**Skip split**)
**/ and * :** "/" on the left → **previous comparison**, asterisk on the right → **next comparison**

The other settings are:

•**Global Hotkeys :** Use the Livesplit hotkeys on any program without having to click on the Livesplit timer. **Leave the box empty.** The **FocusedHotkeys** component activates Livesplit hotkeys on specific programs.

•**Double Tap Prevention :** Prevents from using the same hotkey twice in a fraction of a second. Click on the box.

•**Hotkey Delay :** Leave it at 0.

•**Simple Sum of Best Calculation :** Leave it empty, the role of this feature is unknown.

•**Warn on Reset if Better Times :** Fill the box, if you beat your best times on some segments but you have to reset your speedrun, Livesplit will ask you if you want to save these times.

•**Race Viewer :** Set it to SpeedRunsLive and read the page of the guide dedicated to SpeedRunsLive.

•**Active Comparisons :** Fill all the boxes except the "None" box, this will allow you to use some comparisons in your layout with your PB, your best/worst segments…

•**OBS Plugin :** Not needed.

[EN] 3. TrackMania Splits : Description + Settings

Livesplit uses splits file to keep track of your progress on your speedrun. RastaBobby made splits file for every speedrun category of every TrackMania game and below you'll find a complete description of some of his TrackMania splits files.
It is recommended to download these files along with other useful layout files : https://bit.ly/tmspeedruns .

To open a splits file on Livesplit, do a right click on Livesplit's main window, put your cursor over **Open Splits** and click on **From File...** then look for the splits file which corresponds to the game category you want to speedrun.

To have access to the splits settings, do a right click and click on **Edit Splits**, the following menu should appear with 3 different sub-windows.

https://i.ibb.co/GCzYTfD/Livesplits-Edit-splits-1.png
https://i.ibb.co/P1MxK4F/Livesplits-Edit-splits-2.png
https://i.ibb.co/4VdnM2Q/Livesplits-Edit-splits-3.png


•**Game Name :** The game you are speedrunning.

•**Run Category :** The category you want to speedrun.

•**Start Timer at :** Fill with the start time of the timer. **Must be 0.00 for any TrackMania game.**

•**Attempts :** Your attempts counter (unfinished attempts are included).

•**Load remover and auto splitting options are available (for TrackMania² games only) :** Watch the TrackMania Autosplitter & Load Remover tutorial here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnRjG95OElw .

•**Insert Above/Below :** Add a segment above/below the selected segment, it is used when you create your own splits files.

•**Remove Segment :** Remove the selected segment.

•**Move Up / Move Down :** Move the selected segment up or down.

•**Add Comparison :** Create a new comparison by manually adding the segment times you want to compare to.

•**Import Comparison :** Import someone's splits file to compare to his PB during your speedrun. I encourage you to directly share your splits file on https://splits.io . You'll have to right click on Livesplit, then click on **Share**, choose **Splits.io** on the pop-up window, click again on **Share** and finally paste the Splits.io link in your speedrun submission.

•**Other... :**
•**Clear History :** Clear all your past speedruns in the splits file memory. Your best segment times will be kept.
•**Clear Times :** Clear all the recorded segment times (Game Time and Real Time).
•**Clean Sum Of Best :** Delete your sum of best.


**Real Time and Game Time sub-windows (image 1/3 and 2/3)**

If you use the TrackMania Auto Splitter & Load Remover, Real Time corresponds to RTA (Real Time WITH Loads) and Game Time corresponds to RTA w/o loads (Real Time WITHOUT Loads).

There are 5 columns, both sub-windows share the same **Icon** and **Segment Name** columns:

•**Icon :** Add an image to a segment.

•**Segment Name :** Name each segment of your run. For TrackMania games, it is generally the name of the corresponding track.

•**Split Time :** Segment by segment, you'll find the split times of your Personal Best speedrun (in RTA for "Real Time", in RTA w/o loads or IGT for "Game Time")

•**Segment Time :** List of the segment times of your Personal Best (in RTA for Real Time, in RTA w/o loads or IGT for Game Time).

•**Best Segment :** Displays your best segment time for each segment (in RTA for Real Time, in RTA w/o loads or IGT for Game Time)

**Additional Info Sub-window (image 3/3)**

•**Region :** Leave blank.

•**Platform :** Fill with your platform (PC/PS4/XB1/DS/Wii depending on the game).

•**Sub-categories and other variables (Difficulty, Flags, Maniaplanet,…) :** Fill with the value that corresponds to your speedrun.

•**Submit Run :** Submit a speedrun directly from Livesplit, it sometimes doesn't work.

•**Associate with speedrun.com :** The effects of this setting are unknown.

[EN] 4. Trackmania Livesplit Layout: Description + Settings

A layout file defines the appearance of the Livesplit main window thanks to many components. Most of the components are implemented by default in Livesplit but you can find other components on the Livesplit website or elsewhere on the Internet.

RastaBobby made two TrackMania layouts (a small and a large one) for each of the three timing methods (real time, real time without loads, in-game time) :  https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Yg2d4YEI0ZG5XQ3XABA9JWPawopB3TuE

Here's how his large "TM RTA w/o loads (Full)" layout looks like during a speedrun : 

https://i.ibb.co/MyzGLLP/Livesplit-layout-action.png

This guide will give you a good overview of all the Livesplit components useful for TrackMania speedruns.

To have access to the components list, right click on Livesplit's main window and click on **Edit Layout.**
You'll land on the **Layout Editor** which looks like this : 

https://i.ibb.co/stxRFp3/Livesplit-layout-editor.png

 Click on **Layout settings** to configure your components: 

https://i.ibb.co/d5cZcf0/Livesplit-layout-settings.png

We will only give you a quick description of each component and we will let you test cool things with the layout editor.

•**Title:** Displays the game name with the category and eventually a sub-category or a variable (like the Maniaplanet version here).

•**Splits:** the default component used to display the segment names, the split times, etc...

•**Subsplits:** For a TrackMania² Stadium All Flags speedrun, the 5 splits are the 5 flags : White, Green, Blue, Red and Black. The sub-splits are the splits that corresponds to the tracks, they have less importance than "big" splits in the layout display.
I used Subsplits in this layout to support all my splits files.
I added 2 columns in the subsplits settings of my layout: 
1) "+/-" : Live comparison with your PB (the comparison depends on the default comparison in the "Compare Against" setting)
2) "Time" : your splits times in terms of **real time without loads** or **in-game time.**

•**Timer:** I added 2 timers in this layout, the top one is based on **real time with loads** and the bottom timer is based on **real time without loads.**

•**Previous Segment:** Displays the time you lost/won on your previous segment, it is based on a selected comparison.

•**Possible Time Save / Total Possible Time Save:** Displays the time you can save on the current segment / on all the upcoming segments, it depends on the default comparison you chose in the "Compare Against" setting.

•**Run Prediction / Current Pace / Predicted Time / Best Possible Time / Worst Possible Time:** Displays your predicted final time depending on your current split times and on the default comparison you chose in the "Compare Against" setting.

•**Sum of Best:** Displays your best possible time based on your best times on each segment of your speedrun. After dozens of attempts, the Sum of Best will be a good indicator of  your theoretical limit time.

•**PB Chance:** Displays your live probability to beat your Personal Best, split after split. It is efficient after a few dozens of attempts.

•**Total Playtime and World Record :** Displays the time you spend speedrunning the actual category and it displays the current world record.

•**Graph :** Displays a graphic live comparison between your current run and your PB / best segments / average segments... depending once again on your default comparison.

•**Focused Hotkeys :** Enable Global Hotkeys on some specific programs to use your Livesplit hotkeys directly on these programs.

•**Hotkey Indicator :** A little bar which is red when Global Hotkeys are disables, it becomes green when Global Hotkeys are enabled.



•**Blank Space :** Visually separates the component in your layout.


**Other interesting components:**

•**Sound Effects :** Add short mp3 sounds for when you split, when you beat your PB, when you reset...

•**Detailed Timer:** The big timer is a split timer like the 2 timers I added in the "Timer" component, the small timer is however a segment timer which displays your current segment time.

•**Delta:** Displays a live comparison split after split between your current speedrun and a selected comparison (PB / Best Segments / Average segments...)

•**Scriptable autosplitter :** Use your own autosplitter with this component.

Name	Autor
[EN] 1. How to submit a speedrun + Different timing methods	Rastats 4 years ago
[EN] 2. Livesplit timer : Description + Settings	Rastats 4 years ago
[EN] 3. TrackMania Splits : Description + Settings	Rastats 4 years ago
[EN] 4. Trackmania Livesplit Layout: Description + Settings	Rastats 4 years ago