I knew music theory when I picked up a little guitar but I still didn't have a whole lot of fun trying to make my fingers go the places they needed to. Of course it's all a matter of practice, but it was never worth it to me to make the time.
I joined the forums and spent like 2 days on them to try to get into the Metroid Prime scene in early 2015, but I chickened out. I finally joined the Prime discord and began speedrunning over a year ago, but I only recently made my M2k2 forum account with this username.
Hopefully I'll get sub hour this year. Currently planning to get as close to sub hour as I can in a segmented run, then I'll grind out single segment later.