How fast can you finish Doom 1 Episode 1?

[RevenantFTS97]

Today I tested myself to see how fast can I beat the famous and iconic Episode 1 of Doom 1. I did it two times, in UV with fast monsters (without going UV-Max, just trying to be fast) and in both cases my time was just below 20 minutes

 

Here is my video: Its duration is 18:58 (the last 43 seconds correspond to the ending message screen)

 

And what about you? How fast can you beat Episode 1? (Single segment, without dying and without use of loading and saving)

[Nikku4211]

Around 13 minutes in Hey, Not Too Rough.

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Edited September 1, 2021 by Nikku4211

[Teo Slayer]

In 10 minutes on Hurt Me Plenty. There are secrets that can be used to beat each map faster ;)

 

[Sergeant G]

Generally speaking more than half an hour but less than a whole hour on UV. 

[head_cannon]

In a little under 20 minutes on Ultra-Violence.

 

On tonight's run, I got a time of 17:33.

e1_hc.zip

[Pseudonaut]

Maybe I should learn the UV-Speed route so I can get a decent time on this.

 

 

[Nikku4211]

23 hours ago, Nikku4211 said:

Around 13 minutes in Hey, Not Too Rough.

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Here's a video of it:

 

[BaileyTW]

I was going to grind out episode 1 runs a couple months ago back in april but then I decided against it cause I was a little burnt out. Do remember some of the route I planned, for the first couple of maps at least.

After a couple of goes at it, first run that completed I got a 9:47 on ultra-violence, which is not that bad for me stumbling about at times wasting my time on pinkies. Still, extremely surprised at this time, because I struggled to even complete a run while going fast back then enough that I did not complete a single one and definitely not on nearly as good a pace as this. Gotten pretty good in the past few months, that or I sucked back then I dunno.

Here's the demo (sorry for not letting it stay on e1m8's intermission screen for long, forgot that pressing space immediately sends you to the text screen): Bailey_Episode1_First_Run.zip

Would post a video but I got no way of doing that really.

[RevenantFTS97]

On 8/31/2021 at 11:35 PM, Teo Slayer said:

In 10 minutes on Hurt Me Plenty. There are secrets that can be used to beat each map faster ;)

 

Right. Like the Rocket Launcher secret from E1M5

[RevenantFTS97]

On 9/1/2021 at 7:42 PM, Pseudonaut said:

Maybe I should learn the UV-Speed route so I can get a decent time on this.

 

In UV without fast monsters, it gets easier, because you can skip some secrets, and as a consequence, save precious time. 

 

[RevenantFTS97]

On 9/1/2021 at 11:03 PM, BaileyTW said:

After a couple of goes at it, first run that completed I got a 9:47 on ultra-violence, which is not that bad for me stumbling about at times wasting my time on pinkies. Still, extremely surprised at this time, because I struggled to even complete a run while going fast back then enough that I did not complete a single one and definitely not on nearly as good a pace as this. Gotten pretty good in the past few months, that or I sucked back then I dunno.
 

WOW, that is good time. Half of the time that took my run. Incredible

And yeah, there's no doubt you have improved your skills

[RevenantFTS97]

On 9/1/2021 at 6:17 PM, head_cannon said:

In a little under 20 minutes on Ultra-Violence.

 

On tonight's run, I got a time of 17:33.

e1_hc.zip

Nice. Little by little, you are optimizing the run

[Pseudonaut]

53 minutes ago, RevenantFTS97 said:

In UV without fast monsters, it gets easier, because you can skip some secrets, and as a consequence, save precious time.

-fast is overrated, but fine, I gave it a try. Needed eight attempts this time.

 

 

[Pirx]

And then Zero Master makes a post. 

[Gibbon]

Without secrets on UV, around 20 minutes

[MFG38]

According to this demo I just recorded, about 20 minutes on UV without going for 100% kills or secrets. E1M9 also excluded.

doom_e1_episode.zip

[Gangstalker]

I haven't tried to speedrun episode 1 in a while, but to give a rough estimate I could prolly do it in around 15-20 minutes, assuming I'm not going for 100% secrets and stuff.

[Denim Destroyer]

The last time I timed myself it was around 14-16 minutes on UV. I could probably get it down much lower but I don't enjoy doing that sort of thing.