Timing should start when you press start inside Candy's Adventure instead of when you click the minigame. This removes loading times and would also allow people to actually use the speedrunning mod for the game that allows you to do faster resets and use save states for practicing.

This doesn't really matter anymore, anyone who cares to speedrun the game is just using the speedrunners copy leaderboards now since this one is too poorly moderated and the timing rules for CA are disliked by the runners of it.