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beating a game as fast as possible, because someone always asks what happens if you skip the boring parts.
means the practice of completing a video game or task in the shortest time possible, often by exploiting glitches, sequence breaks, or frame-perfect tricks.
from grew from 1990s doom and quake players racing demo recordings, exploded with tool-assisted speedruns in the 2000s, and went mainstream through marathons like games done quick raising money for charity.
any%beat the game, ignore literally everything else
glitchesbugs become sacred techniques, not mistakes
gdqmarathon events raised over 40 million for charity
tastool-assisted runs use frame-perfect inputs, superhuman precision