Here's an example of a post listing (almost) all challenges for a single pack. It's unwieldy and awkward to look through
I agree. And, to be fair, this isn't how I've suggested records should be compiled for a pack. I've suggested an easy-to-look-at general results table, with links to specific topics for the other challenges for that pack. See
this post for how I think it should be done.
Fastest times for the original levels has a topic, but it's only three pages long, which shows that these "potential" people haven't shown up, and they've had years to do so. Your Lemminas topic displays time records prominently, and it hasn't attracted any contributors besides you. (Admittedly, your topic is very recent, so maybe it's below the belt for me to cite that as evidence. Still, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for things to change.)
I see your point about people not showing up for the time-based challenges, although looking at it, it seems to be for Lemmix (the replays are .lrb) which is no longer as widely used.
Having said that, I can see that time-based challenges don't attract a lot of players generally. However, that's not a reason not to inlude them in a general table of results: the occasional player might see a time record they think they can improve, and add to it accordingly.
With regards to the
Lemminas time records, the reason they're mostly me is because I've made a particular effort to go for fastest times. If anyone improves on my score, which has happened several times in the various replays I've reviewed, I'll go back and improve it again. You've managed at least a couple of time improvements that I can't beat or even match, so well done there!
I'm not saying that it shouldn't be done at all, just that it's probably not going to become a "core" challenge in the same way the various skills-based ones do.
Sure, I understand that. However, I wouldn't see the main table in a post as being the "core" challenge table, more of a general records table.
With that in mind, can we agree that Best Time is a fairly universal video game standard for records keeping, and perhaps for
this reason ought to be included in such a table?
I'd say that, any challenges which attract
more attention (SYCLW and Minimum skills/maximum saves, for instance) probably warrant their own topic anyway, so this is even more reason
not to include them in a general table of records for a pack.