How To Speedrun | The Ultimate Guide to Speedrunning Part 1 : Picking a Game

Since i have started speedrunning over 2 years ago now i have been enamored with the hobby. With the positive influence it has had on my life i wanted to create a series of videos that would help new people get into this amazing hobby. This is why i created " The Ultimate Guide to Speedrunning " This will be a multiple part video series where i explain everything about speedrunning from picking a game, to strategies for practicing, to submitting and recording runs as well as how to use livesplit.

I would also like to thank all of the amazing people who have helped me make this video possible, every runner featured in this video i actually asked permission to use there footage and i asked for input on my video.

Edited by: @SilasHalden

#speedrun #tutorial #howto

[krisztoth]

And don't forget
You don't need to beat other speedrunners
You just need to beat your own time and eventually you will reach their level

[TakaokiKaimi]

I actually got into speedrunning before I even knew it existed and the game that started it was the xbox 360 port of Portal. Once a week, the in-game leaderboards would reset and I made a note to be one of the first on there. I'd see peoples non 0 or 1 second times and always think "I bet I could go lower" and would spend most of the day replaying the game just trying to shave off a few seconds and beat out whatever gamertag(s) I was silently competing against.

Years later, when I saw an ACTUAL Portal speedrun, it made what I did in my bedroom seem like "Baby's First Speedrun". I may not have known about major glitches (knew about standing between portals and reportalling tho), but I have fond memories of just trying to fine tune my movement so I was slowing down or stopping as few times as possible.

[vibrantneon.]

Watched it through. Looking forward to everything else you put out. Very detailed, and specific, and not making any assumptions. It's like a speed-runner took the time to help guide you to actually do the right steps in the decision making process. I was kind of surprised how much I knew just from watching you speedrun. Great Work.

[Aodan]

I love your mentality about almost any game can be speedran. I fought a lot of people in the SR community about Warframe/Division/Destiny who would argue you can't speedrun online games. Glad there are more like you around the community. Great explanation, def plan to use this video to reference new people to speedruns.

[ccdc]

I love that he said . I suggest you write down Why you like the game. Knowing full well that in the tedium of grinding people probably tend to forget why.

[toxics.]

8:21 1 hour and 1 second.. That one second would haunt me! D:

[blackdynamike]

Yooo! Just wanna say thank you very much for putting this out there. I’m a die hard Bloodborne fan (even got a hunters mark tattoo) and it’s the one game I’ve ever done a speed run for. This vid and your channel as a whole are a huge help for me trying to beat my best time! Keep up the good work man and stay safe during these crazy ass times 🤘🏽

[jay-praru]

hell yea love to see not just one of my favorite speedrunners ever but also one fav streamer ever, bawkbasoup. Originally a long time ago I made a deal with myself that I was going to learn how to speedrun RE4 if bawk ever decided to learn it first, but the thing was he said he never learn in a million years so i thought I was safe, guess not since I saw that he was training a week back and now has a completed run on his channel. wish me luck everybody

[disfiguringthegoddess]

Ive loved running for yrs. This is beautiful

[BlimpyBoi]

This is really good content, I look forward to the next video!

[emeraldend]

Thank you so much for doing this series, I've been running 2 games for about a year but when it comes to technology like setting up a timer with splits and even just recording, I have no clue what to do, hopefully with learning from you I can start recording and submitting some runs eventually. I do Resident Evil Revelations New Game Casual Console and Castlevania Circle of The Moon Fighter Mode All Bosses. the first one my PB is barely under 2 hours the second one my PB is a little over 40 minutes by a few seconds.

[valley]

This have made me want to start trying to speedrun the naruto storm series, thanks for the informational video :D

[odwbwill]

I used to be a pokemon Red/Blue any% runner but I stopped about 5 years ago and am looking to get back into a new game this helped so much thanks!

[redjarman]

I've dabbled in speedrunning twice in the past that I can remember. My main issue is that I just can never have the patience to keep at it.
both times were individual level runs, one was a contest in Ms Splosion Man, and one was Chemical Plant Act 1 in Sonic Generations.
For Ms Splosion Man, I felt like I had more motivation to do my best. It was a timed event, only a week or so, a special level made exclusively for the event, and the top 5 players got a free copy of Twisted Pixel's next game, and me being a huge fan of them I HAD to have it. So I spent hours every day going through the stage over and over, contacting other players on the leaderboard and collaborating, even learning new speed tricks on accident along the way that we didn't know about just from playing the main game. In the end, I managed to hang on to the 5th place spot, and got the free game and a plushy that I still keep by tv to this day. But as proud and accomplished as I felt, I was absolutely burned out, and I don't think I ever touched the game again.
For Sonic Generations, it just happened that while playing on launch day, I noticed I was at the top of the leaderboard for Chemical Plant Act 1. Didn't last super long but it got me excited to try to take it back. Plus, my roommate also played so it even became a personal competition between us. After about a week though, neither of us could figure out any ways to improve, and our placement continually dropped every day, and eventually we just gave up. Again, I've never had the motivation to ever try again, and haven't touched the game in years.
Games come by here and there when during my first playthrough I think that it might be fun to speedrun later, but by the time I beat the game, that urge is gone. The few rare games that I do end up replaying are usually because of the atmosphere than the challenge. Like Breath of the Wild, I've seen the crazy speedruns for that, but when I play I do it to explore every nook and cranny I see, not rush through.
I WOULD like to speedrun something, but finding something that interests me to feels impossible, and even then how do I ensure that I stay motivated long enough to actually get good?

[justinbrandt]

Very articulate, detailed, and entertaining. Love your videos and thinking about running a game.

[deadrisingplayer]

Speedrunning isn't just a hobby, but a goal and a lifestyle. I never knew you could Speedrun Pokemon lol. That is insane to me after spending half a hundred hours to complete it.

[Bakerstreetgaming]

I have seen a lot of speed runners and it looks awesome and I wish I could get into it one day

[dominickmaddox]

What game is that in the background when discussing the lingo about any% etc

[OBkrishna]

**records tutorial on 2x playback**
**rewatches it with an additional 1.5x via audacity**

[_stealth_]

Thank you for the tips, have been starting to get into speedrunning Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and have been very intimidated by the 4 hour run time lol.