Portal 2's Toughest Speedrun was Finally Solved - World Record History of Ceiling Catapult

Portal 2's Ceiling Catapult chamber has always been one of the toughest speedrun levels. Through 11 years of speedrunning, how have world record speedrunners "solved" the speedrun for Ceiling Catapult?

Music used (in order):
Super Mario Galaxy 2 OST - Sky Station Galaxy
Baba Is You OST - Water Is Sink
Fez OST - Beacon
VA-11 HALL-A OST - Neon District
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai OST - Options
OMORI OST - I Think My Dad Shops Here
Plok! (SNES) - Beach Theme
Ducktales (NES) - The Moon Theme

Thanks to BaileyP2SR for helping with the video creation process.

This video is not an actual speedrun world record, nor a speedrun tutorial. This video is a showcase of a speedrun strategy that goes in-depth to the various tricks, glitches and bugs that make the strategy possible.

[theswagatron]

i still remember all these years later how much it stung finding out zypeh beat my time without the route improvement that i had to come up with just to beat him in the first place haha. didn't even bother touching the map after knew i couldn't compete with the goat. great video as always man perfect map to do this for

[ghost_ship_supreme]

Imagine being the guy that discovered the debris trick and having it called useless… until years later when it’s found to be the ultimate solution to the speedrun

[attmayMB]

I think that's it. The perfect speedrun showcase video. Then again, you never know when a problem is truly solved.

[obsoleete]

It's insane that runners manage to finish the whole chamber in like half the time the full dialogue takes

[killergamer]

when I first played portal 2, I was very stupid on this level,
instead of using the faith plate I tried building momentum by going out of the diagonal platforms and placing portals below me when I nearly hit the ground,
somehow I overlooked the go-high-quick plates and thought of an infinitely harder solution 💀

[Znernicus]

I always enjoyed this chamber & the amount of route possibilities. I didn't even know the stairs were timed to rise at 35 seconds back in the day because it wasn't relevant until after ceiling skip was done. Great video!

[inconsistentlysleepy]

Imagine being GLaDOS just watching chell speed through the chambers in seconds shooting portals wildly

[Pinkchup]

the way the debris circled back around after all those years.... truly beautiful

[resurgam_b]

I love that speed runners are all competing for that one elusive world record spot, but will then still share their strategies and routes with each other in the hope that said record will eventually be shattered, even if someone else is the one to do it. It feels like a community effort to lower the time as low as it can go, rather than a competition between the runners to set the best time.

[personstanevil]

When Msushi uploads, I instantly have a good day.

[Stalast.]

Holy shit I had no idea this chamber developed to such an insane extent. The 1000 hours I spent running this game back in 2012 feels so insignificant lol. Does Zypeh still play, is he still the movement GOAT or has the next generation of runners surpassed him?

Also thank you Msushi for these beautiful videos. I get so nostalgic watching them.

[Tsl]

I'm not sure how, after 11 years, and living the meme, I'm only now realizing the "ceiling cat" meme pun. smh

[PossumOnAVacuum]

Ceiling catapult? I don’t know, it looks like it’s on the floor to me

[astro_]

Another banger from Msushi, by far my favourite speedrun commentator channel

[Jesuscatface]

this was a nice surprise, put a smile on my face :3 almost makes me wanna take a shot at this chamber again :p great video!

[UberDragon]

You gotta love it when you play baba is you for hours and then looking to take a break click a random video that was recommended to you about portal 2 speedrunning only to be greeted by the same music again. Truly can't escape the baba.

[Jachelo]

Amazing video, it's really refreshing seeing an actual research on a topic giving credit to every person involved in the timeline instead of just mentioning the current WR.

[Burningiced]

Msushi is one of the best portal YouTubers and you can't change my mind 🥰

[Source]

Really cool video as always man, that final fling to skip the stairs was sick, "never underestimate speedrunners" always feels cliche but almost always holds true lol, keep up the great work =)

[TheAdvertisement]

I love these videos because I know nothing about the Portal speedrunning community, but these allow me to peek into it and see how excited everyone gets over new discoveries.