Dark Souls - The Dark Challenge

So I started speed running Dark Souls a couple of days ago and I am no god but I've come pretty far in 15 minutes than most have in an hour (so that's a plus!).

The idea of this is simple:

Race to a certain objective and complete it as fast as you can.
Over on /r/speedrun I posted my attempts and it caught a few interested people. They liked the idea of runs that cut short to try and optimize those routes. Could maybe be incorporated in a bigger run?

So for this first run the rules are simple:
- Get to the Bells on top of the Undead Church and ring them.
- No use of glitches allowed.

Record it with a timer so we can see the precise time. It's incredibly challenging actually!

The recorded attempts so far:

16 Minutes 48 Seconds - Vipar
8 Minutes 52 Seconds - blastedt

Someone claimed to have done it in 8:39 but was playing on a PS3 so couldn't record. If we take his word for it, then he is currently the fastest time.

Even if you don't beat any of these times it's still a lot of fun to try it out!