Guides That Turn Casual Runners Into Category Contenders
Deep-dive tutorials on routing, execution, and strategy drawn from world record runs across countless classic genres.
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Long-form breakdowns built for runners who want to understand the route, not just watch it
Speedrun Routing for Beginners
Learn how top runners map out a route before ever picking up the controller, from segment planning to identifying skips worth chasing.
Frame-Perfect Tricks Explained
A walkthrough of timing windows, input buffering, and why some tricks demand pixel-precise setup before they land consistently.
Reading a Leaderboard Like a Runner
Understand category extensions, verification notes, and how splits tell the real story behind any% versus 100% times.
Choosing Your First Category
A practical breakdown of low, mid, and high-execution categories to help new runners pick a game that matches their patience level.
Glitch Hunting and Route Discovery
How the community finds new skips, from frame-by-frame footage review to community-shared theory crafting sessions.
Understanding TAS vs Human Runs
A comparison of tool-assisted routes and human-executed records, and what each teaches runners about a game's underlying limits.
Why Runners Trust These Guides
Written by people who study the runs, not just report on them
Every guide is built from actual run footage, breaking down inputs and timing to a level most overviews skip entirely.
Written by longtime members of the speedrunning community who track categories across countless classic genres, not outside observers.
Guides are reviewed against community routing notes and verified splits before publishing, keeping the details accurate.
From platformers to RPGs to arcade classics, our guides span the breadth of categories tracked across the archive.
Ready to Route Your Next World Record Attempt?
Dig into guides covering execution, category selection, and the routing logic behind the archive's fastest runs.