r/speedrun • • 1d ago

Discussion Weekly Help and Getting Started Speedrunning Thread (Week of October 26, 2026)

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This thread is for asking anything at all. Looking to start speedrunning? Need advice for a game or feedback on your stream? There are no stupid questions here. We highly recommend reading the Speedrunning FAQ if you are having trouble learning how to speedrun a game or need help picking a game to speedrun.


r/speedrun • • 1d ago

Discussion Which runners/events are you watching this week? (Week of October 26, 2026)

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Anything cool happening in the speedrunning world this week? Into a new game or streamer and can't wait to watch more runs? Just find an awesome speedrunning YouTube channel? This is the place to tell everyone about it! Feel free to link streamers, YouTube channels, or any other related information here, just be mindful of the subreddit and reddit's overall self-promotion policies.


r/speedrun • • 1d ago

Meme Speedrunner Realizes He Can Get To Work Faster With Fall Damage

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r/speedrun • • 18h ago

Event RPG Speedrunner Union completes their first on-site event, RPGSU Offline 2026, in The Netherlands

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Raising 600€ for ILGA-Europe, the RPG Speedrunner Union successfully finished their first in-person event, RPGSU Offline 2026, which took place from October 22nd to October 25th at the Fletcher Hotel-Resort Zutphen, The Netherlands.

Follow their twitch channel to stay up to date on any future events! https://www.twitch.tv/rpgsu


r/speedrun • • 18h ago

RollerCoaster Tycoon TAS - Commentated and Slowed Down Versions

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r/speedrun • • 1d ago

World Record Constantine WR after 6 years

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I posted the door glitch and had found several other skips in this game. happy to get the RTA WR before I show it off for a hotfix event later tonight!


r/speedrun • • 11h ago

Speedrunning coach

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Is there a website that has some sort of "coaching" list? Im trying to learn some tricks in OOT and I cant quite get the buttons down for some of the glitches. Any help would be appreciated.


r/speedrun • • 19h ago

Event PlateUp! Weekly Speedrun Fajitas - first look!

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r/speedrun • • 1d ago

Any% WR in 19:47 using new Throwverflow Wrong Warp Tech (Emu) Battle for Bikini Bottom

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r/speedrun • • 2d ago

Speedrun.com's new Terms of Use make your guides free content for everyone to use and monetize

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The community is happy that "Leaderboard Data" is classified as free content for everyone to use. I didn't realize the guides I wrote and posted to Speedrun.com are also classified as such until I read the terms.

I'll save you the click:

You have until the end of October 31st to remove your guides to protect your work. What's interesting is "Resources" are protected. You can link to your content externally as a resource and then it's safe.


r/speedrun • • 1d ago

World Record Bloodletter 56.1 WR speedrun

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most unknown game itw (joke) The game is split into 4 segments. For a viable run, IL1 must be sub-8 seconds. If I hit Level 2 at 11s+, the pace is dead and it’s almost impossible to clutch. In all my decent runs, Level 2 starts sub-10s, and I need to clear it sub-25s, otherwise there’s no point continuing.

Level 1 Strat:
Right at the start, I take a couple of steps, back-boost, and fly through that annoying choke point. Then I enter an even worse choke, squeezing past 3-4 enemies right against the cliff wall. I bunnyhop the entire time to maintain speed, using strafes to grab Cycle/Heart 1 and 2. After that, I line up with the wall, turn, and strafe between 4 enemies to pick up the last Heart. This clears the level at 6.5s, letting me start Level 2 at 9.8s.

Level 2 Strat:
I start with a long strafe jump, flying through a tight gap between enemies (sometimes a wider gap depending on RNG variations). I loot Heart 1 and immediately leap onto the nearest cliff, doing a quick surf on it. Next up is a nasty corner section: I have to weave past two hard enemies and immediately jump up to clear a massive mob. Upon landing, I immediately path around a hard enemy to the right, then execute a huge jump directly into a tight spot where any extra input kills the run. I carefully grab the Heart, hit a clear stretch, and use weapon boosts to accelerate. Enter Level 3 at 22.8s.

Level 3 Strat:
Right off the spawn, I boost over a massive cliff and land dead-center in front of a Heart on a rock. I loot it, enter an open area, jump to the upper cliff, and climb the top rock. From there, I boost and strafe along the cliff wall to the next Heart. I carefully jump off the left wall and grab the last Heart with a literal "floor is lava" strat, entering the final level at 36s (which is a pretty insane pace).

Level 4 Strat:
Immediately at the start, I look down, move backward, and jump onto a cliff. I build up momentum, jump even higher to reach the out-of-bounds/map edge (the cliff top), boost forward along it, and shoot under myself to fly up and grab Heart 1 at the highest point of the map. From there, I boost-jump to the second cliff and, keeping all my momentum, hop across three small rocks for the final Heart, looting it before even touching the last rock. Then I just drop down into the end trigger.

Final Time: 56.1s. https://youtu.be/kk0dl1xod2w


r/speedrun • • 3d ago

Event Prince of Persia Speedrun Marathon 2026 is here

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r/speedrun • • 2d ago

World Record Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Any% Unrestricted in 16:41 by R4NG3

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r/speedrun • • 4d ago

Has anyone heard from darbian recently?

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I saw a thread from around 3 years ago that said he was taking a break for his health. Has anyone seen or heard from him since then? Hope he's okay, I loved watching is SMB runs.


r/speedrun • • 4d ago

RollerCoaster Tycoon - OpenRCT2 All RCT1 Scenarios - TAS in 4:57.1 by TiKevin83

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See the submission notes on TASVideos for details

I finished a TAS of OpenRCT2 following the same rules as this RTA category. It completes all 21 original RCT1 base game scenarios to unlock Mega Park in just under 5 minutes, using TAS level gameplay in combination with a 128x internal "hyperspeed" speedup mode.


r/speedrun • • 2d ago

Video Production CoD4 is almost 19 years old and we're still speedrunning it.

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SR Speedrun has been going since 2017 and I finally put together a short trailer showing what it looks like now.

  • Stock CoD4 movement, 190 and 210 speed with strafing
  • CS Bhop and Surf
  • Quake 3, both CPM and VQ3, also with rocket and plasma guns
  • Portal, with an actual portal gun

Getting all of this to work inside CoD4 took years of work. Every movement is available on every map, so you can play CS on a CoD4 map or even on a Q3 map.

None of them are a straight copy of the original games either, they're all tweaked to keep that CoD4 feel. FPS switching and bouncing work in every movement type too, so a big part of it is learning how to use them to turn each physics to your advantage.

Since 2017 we've had more than 9K registered players, 164K+ records set on the leaderboards and over 900 maps.

The whole project is open source: https://github.com/Iswenzz


r/speedrun • • 4d ago

World Record (WR) Alien Isolation Blast seat NMG

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first world record on PC


r/speedrun • • 4d ago

World Record [WORLD RECORD] Half-Life in 23:58 (first ever sub24 run) by KaNangaTV

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r/speedrun • • 3d ago

Personal Best Flawless Italian Game Opening Lines Speedrun • 8:10

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Hello speedrun community. i began playing chess this summer, to mitigate some rumination issues i've been having. My short term memory is really, really shot from brain damage along with the malaise of being a burnout xennial. so i take a lot of pride in learning all 22 lines of the Italian Game opening, and then playing them without making a mistake (which would make the square i moved to red instead of lime green).

i hope that your community will make an exception to a chess speedrun, as, reaching this goal has meant a lot to me; but i don't know anyone who plays chess, so i have nobody to share this W with.

GL on your runs this weekend. and thanks for having me, it means a lot.

marked NSFW because there's a bit of profanity in the video


r/speedrun • • 3d ago

Can AI be used to re create Speedrun.com, like it's already used to re create videogames?

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Like watching a news site that removes the cookie paywall, so to say

Technically, code can be extracted from videogames to re create them and since it's a new game it doesn't infringe copyright

Since people don't like the new changes to terms and services, I was wondering if we have the power to just create a knock-off site, which also auto submits the youtube and twitch links from SRC, they'd have no choice but to do things right or get replaced

In the end, the new site would just look at SRC and add the new submitted links, but it would spare us from the terms and services. Additionally it would register new links that the users submit to the new site


r/speedrun • • 5d ago

Discussion speedrun.com clarifies the new terms of service

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r/speedrun • • 5d ago

Meme Is it the best item for a speedrunner?

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r/speedrun • • 5d ago

Event RPGSU Offline 2026 is now Live!

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An offline Marathon in the Netherlands dedicated to showcasing RPG Speedruns, RPGSU is now live raising money for ILGA Europe, Running from Oct 22 - Oct 25!

Schedule: https://oengus.io/marathon/rpgsu2026/schedule/schedule

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/rpgsu


r/speedrun • • 5d ago

World Record Unharvest Speedrun Solo World Record - 8:31

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Y'all should really try this game, it's so fun


r/speedrun • • 7d ago

the zeldaspeedruns.com domain was sold off, and is no longer associated with the community

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The recently redesigned website is now at zsr.gg