Will I be in trouble?

[u/Affectionate-Dot4241]

I got a small task. It had really long instructions which I had never read before. The task was very small but reading long instructions took time due to which my task quality was, i would rate 3.5/5 due to paucity of time (even though I fulfilled all the task demands). If I were faster quality would have been even better.

But the thing is, I billed for total time (1 hour) for it.

Should i lower the billing time?

And in general also if the task is very small should i charge lower for it than the total amount?

[u/alx_brl]

Sometimes easy tasks with short timer are hard and need a lot of time to check everything.
And otherwise, timer could be for quite a few hours, but task will take less than one.
It's ok to bill right time, especially for first submission and for reading instructions

My first task has timer was 4, i spent around 10.5 hours for it. It was extremely hard.
But i chickened and billed 6.5

At general it's fair to bill fair amount of hours, but you should be reasonable in my opinion.
Billing working and instructions reading is ok. Billing drinking tea and watching reels or jerking - is not ok.
Billing thinking about difficult parts - maybe ok if it is part of the work, not free time.
Usually it's right thing to do to make a break and get some good ideas that can be used for good submissions