What do people do when they finish a game they love? Start a new one or go out and live your life or play it again? Well, what speedrunning players do is the last resort. The term speedrunning may seem ambiguous to some, but it has become popular among gamers, and its Arabic translation can be “finishing games at full speed”.

What is Speedrunning?

Simply put, speedrunning is about people trying to finish a game as quickly as possible. They do this by playing the game a lot and knowing every detail of it and the location of every pixel, and sometimes their knowledge goes beyond the developers themselves.

People who finish games quickly (speedrunners) are always challenging themselves and over the years they have managed to create an entire community interested in this topic. This term has become more popular in recent years, but its origins date back to 1994, specifically with a website called COMPET-N for the game DOOM.

DOOM was one of the first games to allow players to record their speed points in-game without needing a third-party login, making it easy to download and compare times with people around the world.

Challenges differ when it comes to Speedrunning, as some challenges require you to finish the game by collecting all collectibles or completing all side quests, but generally the main challenge is to complete the main story and see the names of the workers. Game Metroid Released in 1986, it had a feature that rewarded players for completing timed tasks.

That's what paved the way for Super Metrood in 1994 became one of the most popular speedrunning games of its time. These games are designed to reward creative players, as well as provide multiple ways to complete a task, some of which are faster than others.

Enough about history, let's talk about modern games that are famous friend Speedrun. Celeste has been very popular among players who want to finish games quickly, with dozens of players currently registered on Speedrun.com and the fastest time ever recorded is 25 minutes and 55 seconds. In case you think that number is still high, the average player who only played the main story managed to finish the game in about eight hours, according to HowLongToBeat.

Is there more?

Many speedrunners rely on skills acquired through practice and repetition, but many use special tricks to finish games, the most famous of which is “breaking the streak.” Sequence breakwhich refers to players who find ways to skip entire sections of the game. This means they can skip entire stages, missions, and chapters that would otherwise take up a lot of their time.

In this challenge, every millisecond can make a difference. Usually a trick is used Sequence break Exploiting game bugs that allow them to get to other places faster.

DOOM Eternal, which was released this year and is considered one of the best releases of this year, was also one of the games that gained popularity among the community of players who finish games quickly. Clicking here you can read the detailed news about it, and below you can see the clip that shows us how the Distortion2 player managed to finish it in about half an hour and how he used the sequence breaking trick that we talked about above.

But the latest world record and the longest ever for the game DOOM Eternal recently came in at less than 19 minutes, imagine that with me!

How did Speedrunning come about?

Speedrunning started as a way for gamers to challenge themselves in the games they love, but it has since evolved into something much more. A community has emerged that wants to finish games as quickly as possible and benefit everyone in doing so. This community has created a biannual competition called Games Done Quick, which raises money and donates it to charity.

This tournament, which started in 2010, has managed to donate more than twenty-five million dollars since its inception, and recently a specific contest was held for the Corona virus, in which they managed to raise more than four hundred thousand dollars in just sixty hours.

Personally, I have never been one of these people, but I respect them a lot and enjoy watching them and witnessing the tension and happiness they live. This community is one of the most beautiful societies because they do what they love with great passion and professionalism. Now that you know so much about them, will you join them?

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