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although some of us are super completionist when we play our games and don't rest until we've explored every crevice of every map and picked up every single unnecessary item there's something pretty awesome about powering your way through a game as fast as possible' like when you did when you were a kid and you use those warp zone pipes at the end of Mario levels or was that yesterday but anyway a large community has sprung up around the practice of speedrunning which is a pretty simple idea complete a video game in the shortest period of possible time speedrunning videos can be found all over the internet and part of their appeal is that it's kind of mesmerizing to watch games get completed at what seems like impossibly short periods of time so how is it that speedrunners are consistently shattering world records obviously being really good at a game and having tons of practice does help but many speedrunners commonly employ other tactics to push their times from being merely very good to truly remarkable one fundamental concept is route planning to ensure that a speedrunner doesn't get mired in some time-consuming part of a level this involves studying a level very very closely or simply playing through it many many times to figure out which route presents the fewest obstacles and difficult time-consuming enemies or even the best shortcuts to time-saving power-ups to allow them to finish the level in the shortest possible time since many competitive speedrunners are fighting for every last millisecond it's not uncommon for them to even keep track of parts of the game that are prone to lag and system slowdowns and avoid those as well although some speedruns are indeed done cleanly and nothing but practice and route planning and lots of practice are put into play it's more common to see faster runs that employ some form of sequence breaking which entails doing something out of order in the game sometimes this is done by executing precise moves to get to an area that is not really meant to be reachable at that point in time but more often speed runners will take advantages of glitches in the game to skip ahead save huge amounts of time since it can take a long time for the gaming community to discover and exploit these kinds of glitches older games are often more popular for speedrunning the number of well-developed emulators available for older games and platforms has also made speedruns of retro titles enormous ly popular not only because emulators allow people to try their hand at speedrunning without the original console or without one that's still working but also because emulators have opened up a different method called tool-assisted speed running or TAS TAS takes advantage of emulator tools like being able to save the game at any particular instant call the save state this allows the player to piece together a near-perfect run even if they make a mistake another one is slowing down the game to such a low speed that a speed runner can execute complicated maneuvers that would be virtually impossible to do in real time this is in order to shave off small little bits of time and this often involves executing very hard to exploit glitches for reasons that should seem obvious tasses usually considered a separate discipline from regular speedrunning to keep things fair tool-assisted runs are often posted so others can enjoy watching the sheer perfection of speeding through a game fall asleep but unassisted speedrunning is still popular for organized competitions and high profile speedrunning events such as things like games done quick a series of twice yearly gaming marathons that feature live speedruns while raising money for charity from the viewers which is awesome and while watching streams of experienced speedrunners can be a little intimidating to those who have never tried it you don't need any special skills or equipment to dive right in just watch some runs of your favorite games and learn the unique nuances and 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