Hey everyone! I'm planning on hosting a speedrunning competition and was wondering what makes entering a competition enticing, as well as what information competitors should know before entering.

It's something I've never done before, and these are the only things I know so far:

• Make the rules and submission requirements clear
• Detail the prize for the winner
• Give people enough time to attempt and submit

Any and all feedback is helpful! Especially where the best places to share the event would be. Thank you.

Hey everyone!

I recently got a job, and I'm starting to wonder how I'm going to balance working with grinding speedruns.

Before getting a job, I could probably spend more time practicing, learning new strategies, resetting runs, and going for PBs. But now that I have work to worry about, I'm not sure how to manage my time effectively.

Speedrunning already requires a lot of practice, and sometimes you can spend hours grinding without getting a single good run. After a long day at work, finding the energy and motivation to keep practicing might be another challenge.

For those of you who have jobs and still actively speedrun, I'd love to hear your advice!

• How many hours do you usually spend speedrunning per day or per week?
• Do you practice after work or save most of your grinding for the weekends?
• How do you stay consistent when you have limited time to play?
• How do you deal with resets and bad runs when you're already tired from work?
• Do you focus on one game and category at a time, or do you switch between multiple games?
• How do you balance going for PBs with work, sleep, and your personal life?

I'm still interested in improving my times and getting more PBs, but I also want to find a sustainable routine that doesn't leave me exhausted.

I'd especially love to hear from speedrunners who started working recently and had to adjust their practice schedules.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Hey everyone!

I go by R4NG3 and I’ve been speedrunning the KOTOR games for 6 years now. This is the first sub 17 minute speedrun of Any% Unrestricted! I hope some of you enjoy watching it.

If you are interested in how the speedrun works, esteemed Jedi Lane scripted and edited a video explaining the nuts and bolts of every tricks we do. Here’s a link to that: https://youtu.be/Y3pks1Va2S0?is=08oIeByflueoEjCn

If you were ever interested in learning the speedruns or maybe just some of the tricks: check out our community GitHub page: https://kotor-speedruns.github.io

https://www.speedrun.com/kotor1 for more information on the leaderboards and rulesets we follow.

https://discord.gg/7WZzRjQgu to join the KOTOR speedrunning discord server.

Thank you and may the force be with you.

if you haven't seen mcsr ranked, it's 1v1 matchmaking for minecraft 1.16 any%. both players load the same random seed at the same moment, and the race ends at the first dragon kill.

this one is v_strid and silverrruns. the lead changed hands three times before the stronghold, and the two dragons died 58 milliseconds apart.

i put both twitch povs side by side, lined up on the match countdown, with a split timer in the middle that reads every split from the ranked api. it's the full match, nothing cut:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEYCRfER4A4

it's my channel, so yes this is self-promo. the footage is from their streams, twitch.tv/vstrid and twitch.tv/silverrruns.

I been playing WSR since I was a toddler (now 16) and recently got into the blindfolded speedrun community and decided to go for WSR 18 hole golf blindfolded WR and after a few days of practice and runs, I got it! It’s the first ever speedrun WR I hold and I also recently got he OG wii sports golf blindfolded WR

Wii Sports Resort Run: https://youtu.be/T_Oj4Rmi-Qg?is=hBoa6oOsV3iNQukM

OG Wii Sports: https://youtu.be/sTQ67H97LfY?is=fsrZ-i5frDdMA93F

Sorry if it's a stupid question, I always liked speedruns, but never was part of the community. And the question is more about challenge run than a speedrun, but I don't know where else I could ask this.

Right now I want to do a one-life run of a horror game that I like, but it lasts for about 10-12 hours and I realistically can only afford 4-5 hour play sessions at most, so I have to save and quit at some point, once or twice. Is there are way to still prove that run was legitimate? How do speedrunners deal with runs like this for long games? Or is it impossible and they always just grind the full session?

Edit: Thanks everyone for explaining things to me. While it looks like there's no magic pill I was looking for, I still learned a lot of new stuff today :)

Got this later the same day I got the All Levels run that I posted recently, so I wanted to space them out a little bit...

100% is sadly very restrictive with the skips you can do due to the fact that you have to collect certain collectibles spread out throughout each of the levels, which means it's not as flashy as All Levels (other than Secret Swim, which is arguably even flashier), and also the last level turns from a very simple boss fight to a massive RNG-fest, but it's still a great run nonetheless imo :')

I beat my previous record! This time no audio glitch and alot of interesting close calls. Should be a good watch if you're into RPG speedrunning!

This might be the final minute barrier, at least for a looong time. I'm very happy with this run, even though it has some timelosses. I managed to show all the newer stuff like the backwards launches or the new setup for the skip at the end of Capitol. I also had to go for Coal Mine 1 skip, which led to the craziest moment in my 11 years of speedrunning this game. Especially in 2023, 2024 and 2026, this category underwent many changes and the skill ceiling and optimization are out of this world, now. This is the most intense category with the most tricks out of all TLoU speedruns, and many of them are very technical.

Hello everyone, I hope you're all doing well.

I added the Backrooms Levels game to Speedrun.com, and it's a blank page with no runs except for me, who completed 14.
what are you waiting for to get free WR?
So All the information is below.
📍 Map Code: 2633-7144-2490
🔗 Leaderboard: https://www.speedrun.com/UEFN_Backrooms_Levels
and yeah we need mods

I know there's only one other guy who runs the game, but Ive nearly cut the original 3 minute run in half and discovered 2 skips ( both have guides if you're interested in running the game )

This makes the All Levels category officially over 2 minutes shorter than Any% was when I first started running the game about 5 years ago, and that's with 2 whole additional levels, which coincidentally also happen to be the longest ones in the run...

As someone who's used to running a lot of popular games and not really caring about becoming top level at them, I'm very happy and proud about how much I've been able to push one of my childhood favorite games over the years of on and off grinding! :)

wr clocks in around 6:23 for The Legend of Kage any% super fun and simple run requires decent amount of rng aswell as a couple techniques ;) hope to see more people run the game!

I am currently ranked #3 with my run of 6:38

peace! -xc4xrr

first 58! and thank you to whoever downvoted immediately off rip lol

Top 3 on Playstation https://youtu.be/XWvLANdhOQA

- "High Punch Trick" exploit is allowed in this category, although it is not used on every character as not every character can do it efficiently due to AI pattern and hit box differences. It is used wherever possible to save time.

autosplit64 ended my timer before i grabbed the star anybody know why this happened and how to fix it? i have my route in as64 set to the “final” split type on my bits split.