What is a speedrun game?

Speedrunning is when an individual attempts to beat part or all of a video game as quickly as possible. This can include individual levels, specific objectives, or unique limitations as decided by the community or player. Speedrun.com is a toolset for building communities around speedrunning games.

How does speedrunning games work?

In a speedrun, gamers set out to complete a video game (already an impressive feat) in the shortest amount of time possible. They do this by carefully planning gameplay routes, taking clever shortcuts using sequence breaking, and exploiting tips and tricks not known to all gamers.

Why do people speed run games?

Now as to the question of why do people speed run?. Well, some will say it's the thrill of finishing the game quickly and some will say it's to get revenge on a certain game that they couldn't beat as a child. So they aim out to break the game by exploiting bugs and glitches to finish them.

What is the fastest speedrun game ever?

What games do people speedrun?

What is Speedrunning? A Look at Gaming's Fastest Players

How much do speedrunners make?

The salaries of Speed Runners in the US range from $20,110 to $37,230 , with a median salary of $26,870 . The middle 60% of Speed Runners makes $26,870, with the top 80% making $37,230.

How do you get a game on speedrun?

If you want to request a game as part of an existing series, consult a series moderator first for their approval. They will either add the game themselves or recommend you use the "Request game" button on the respective series' page for your submission. Each game is generally limited to one board.

What is a 100% speedrun?

100% speedrunning is when the player completes the game in full. In this style of play, the player must execute all major accomplishments of the game. Depending on the game, this could mean collecting treasures, defeating bosses, unlocking stages, etc.

What is the hardest speedrun?

Is there a game that is impossible to speedrun?

RollerCoaster Tycoon is probably the worst game ever to speedrun. At least if you try to beat it how it is intended to be. It's literally impossible to Speedrun since the Goals are bound to the ingame time (Mostly 3 Years which is about 2hours 30 Minutes).

How popular is speedrunning?

In 2021, there were more than 7 billion views of videos related to speedruns. These videos take on various forms, but generally fall into one of two categories: Let's Plays: Unsurprisingly, this content forms the basis of the speedrunning community, with creators posting recordings of their gameplay.

Do speedrunners play games normally?

Do Speedrunners play games normally? Speedrunners are like pro-gamers for single player games. They spend an significantly of time playing the games and getting super good at them, quite similar to how pro gamers spend an significantly amount of time playing multi-player games and getting super good at them.

Why are most speedrunners male?

Why are most SpeedRunners male? In short, most top players were assigned male at birth because video games were seen as a male hobby and more males grew up on games. That's slowly changing and more girls are growing up with games now.

How long do SpeedRunners play?

Welcome to SpeedRunners. When focusing on the main objectives, SpeedRunners is about 2 Hours in length. If you're a gamer that strives to see all aspects of the game, you are likely to spend around 14½ Hours to obtain 100% completion.

Why is it called speedrunning?

The term is a compound of the words speed and run (run means playing the game here). It is usually used for games which do not have quickly finishing them as one of the main goals. For example, gamers do not "speedrun" a racing game.

How hard is speedrunning?

It is VERY hard and VERY frustrating - one of the most frustrating things you could ever do with your life. Speed runners will spend literally weeks, months and even years perfecting a game just to shave mere seconds off a current record. From the mathematical expert's perspective, did Dream cheat on his speedrun?

What is the shortest speedrun ever?

Super Mario Bros. is a notoriously competitive game to speedrun, with the world record held by Niftski, who beat the game in 4:54.798, which is only 0.533 seconds or rather 32 frames shy of the theoretical humanly possible limit which is calculated to be 4:54.265.

What games haven t been speedrun?

What is the average man speedrun?

From this data, we can calculate the average human athlete sprinting speed across both sexes to be 18.23 mph (3:17.5 minutes per mile), or 29.33 kilometers per hour.

What is a 200% speedrun?

For some games 200% simply means 100%ing the game twice in a row.

Can you get banned from speedrun?

Discord Servers associated with Speedrun.com game pages are expected to follow Speedrun.com code of conduct. Hate speech and harassment will not be tolerated and may lead to on-site bans.

Which game started speedrunning?

Although speedruns were being done before the 1990s, the development of a speedrunning community is considered to have originated with the 1993 computer game Doom. The game included a feature that allowed players to record and play back gameplay using files called demos (also known as game replays).

Does speedrunners cost money?

The local version of SpeedRunners will be available completely free. You'll be able to download it and play with your friends on a couch, or use any of the offline features (right now we have bots to play against offline).

Where do I start speedrunning?

Find a game that you like

If that's the case, you may want to start off by watching speedruns to see which appeals to you most. Personally, I highly suggest doing a casual playthrough of your game or choosing a game you have already played. This will allow you to get used to all of the intended mechanics for the game.