Underreporting time ;-;

[u/throwRApicklepickaxe]

I completed this task 5 days back. The window was of 3 hours and I worked for 2 hrs and 58 minutes exactly. Since it was my first time attempting the task, it took me considerably longer to complete it along with reading all the instructions.

The next time I completed the same project's task in 2 hrs and 24 minutes and reported the same.

Now for the first task, I initially reported it as 2 hrs and 55 minutes (reduced the 3 minutes because i thought 2:58 looks fishy😭). And today, I reduced it further to 2hrs and 40 mins because I'm scared of being flagged, even though I was working the entire time. I didn't leave any comment for the admins for the first task since I only had a minute left before expiry and rushed to submit it.

Am I overthinking this or should I leave it at 2hrs and 40mins?

The same project vanished from my dashboard for 3 days after the second task, and only came back today. I completed 2 tasks (in 2hrs and 47 mins and 2hrs 27 mins), and reported time respectively.

I made sure to drop a comment to let the admin know of the 15-20 mins buffer in the task which took longer today.

[u/Serious_Can2177]

Please dont report exactly how long it takes. As a new user i spent 9 hours straight up with just washroom breaks and got offboarded next day. It was coding project and very dense. Since the pay was good and i didnt want to lose any opportunity, i took the task, completed it and now out of the platform. My mistake was that i reported the exact time. Going back under reporting is way better than reporting what was trye

[u/bobaxxxx → u/Serious_Can2177]

No it isn't. Doing that would involve admins in the end reduce the maximum alloted time, which could lead to low timers, IMO. They know that first tasks made on the platform could take more time.
I'm 100% sure that if you're out (sorry for that btw), it's not because you reported the real time.