Forsen is back on top. The Swedish streamer posted a 14:18 Minecraft speedrun live on stream, beating xQc’s standing benchmark in their long-running head-to-head rivalry by roughly nine to 10 seconds.
xQc’s previous mark sat around 14:27, which had held for about 100 days before Forsen finally cracked it.
The timing made it sweeter. The run reportedly landed on Forsen’s 12-year Twitch partner anniversary, capping off weeks of failed seeds and thrown attempts with the one finish that mattered.
A rivalry that refuses to die
Forsen and xQc have been trading Minecraft speedrun benchmarks since 2020. It isn’t a fight for the official leaderboard record but a personal feud between two of Twitch’s biggest names, and it keeps pulling viewers in every time one of them locks in for another grind.
The format is brutal. Random seed runs depend on a good spawn, well-placed villages and bastions, lucky pearl barters, blaze rod drops, and a stronghold that isn’t on the other side of the map. Most attempts die within minutes. Getting under 14:20 means everything had to click, from the Nether route to the dragon fight to the final exit portal.
Forsen’s edge has never really been mechanics. It’s the willingness to sit in the chair for hundreds of attempts while xQc bounces between games. That patience paid off again here.
