Getting Over It's Biggest Barrier Was Finally Broken!

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Recently, for the first time in history, someone beat Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy in less than a single minute. This was the last major barrier to broken in the game, and is one of the most important speedrunning achievements we've seen in a while.

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[karljobst]

Please give this achievement the hype it deserves. It's simply incredible.

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[blastboltgoi]

As the world record holder, I cannot thank you enough for giving our game an entire video. More than that, it is incredibly well made and accurate. I hope everyone enjoys this video and sees Getting Over It for what it can truly be :)

[herroyung]

I remember when the fastest TAS was still more than a minute, but now a human did it in less? Absolutely insane.

[Beev]

"speed runners never really got over it" was an absolute bar

[katxiii]

Dudes really put in thousands of hours of work just so they can outrun Bennett Foddy's monologues

[tjimicole]

I feel like this cauldron guy's upper body strength deserves some of the credit for this run.

[Garakuof]

I love how his video's are normally like "There was this massive breakthrough that lowered the record" while with this game it's just "Yeah, people got better at the game"

[Deltarious]

I watched a lot of the earlier TAS runs for this game and thought "man these are *stupid* fast, I didn't realise it was even possible to go this fast" Human players are now *faster* than those runs I was watching. What an incredible achievement, it's honestly mind blowing how much skill this takes

[crumpet]

You represented our community and the game perfectly, and gave Blastbolt some of the recognition he deserves. I'm glad I got to assist in making it, and super happy with how the video turned out!

[MyBiPolarBearMax]

Me in school: “Why am i learning this? Ill never need this in real life!”

Me as an adult: “of course ill watch how speedrunners perfected getting over it with mechanics”

[jackalderson]

as someone who's somewhat competent at the game, sub 1:50 pb. It was an incredible achievement to see the minute mark broken. It took me 400 hours to break the two-minute mark and i can confidently say the last minute takes at least 20 times longer than nothing to sub 2. The last second alone was months in the making for blast bolt, by far the most talented player within the community.

[TBH_Inc]

Fun fact, every time you complete the game, the pot becomes a little more gold. All the clips with completely gold pots mean they have beaten the game 50+ times, although they likely have way more than 50 completions.

[SickMcNugget]

I just want to note that one of the tools that was instrumental in helping runners improve is anjo2's modpack. It allows you to spawn faster at the start of the game, which, in a game that only takes around 1 minute and 15 seconds to beat (and requires thousands of restarts), will save hours of time in the long run. You can even set up checkpoints that you can respawn from to practice a section. It also contains a built in timer (no livesplit needed!) so you can compare your splits to see how much you are improving by or falling short. I truly believe that the modpack is perhaps the biggest tool for improving at speedrunning GOI.

[squillybobarchive]

Hey Karl, thanks for making this video on our favorite game, I'm glad you found the mechanics/techniques so interesting and managed to encapsulate them perfectly in this video. Our community is very appreciative of this coverage and we hope that we can push the boundaries even further! 🔨

[shidanslair]

The most amazing thing about Karl is that he manages to explain everything so well, without compromising the entertainment.
I haven't made any speedruns and watched only a few runs, but still I find myself enjoy these videos a lot and (thanks to Karl) I understand these amazing achievements and can only admire the people doing this.
There're very few channels I like enough to watch every new video, and Karl Jobst is one of them.

[Doncroft]

The run made me tear up. There's such an obvious beauty to it. The character is the equvalent of a disabled person with no legs, yet through mastery, Blastbolt has taught him to fly.

[tazgecko]

Nice to see Distortion 2 get some exposure. The man is a machine cracking open new games. Love having him in the background on twitch.

[ekki]

Bennett Foddy is a legend. The man deserves his game going viral. He also made QWOP.

[DarkZoma]

Doctor: You only have one minute left to live. Use it wisely.
Speedrunners:

[Codyumm]

Amazing milestone by blastbolt after all these years, congratulations once again.
It's really nice to see some recognition and hype around the game that generally get's dusted off as a bad game because the controls are designed to be intentionally difficult.