Facts about Speedrunning Communities

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   The practice of submitting run videos for community verification, where moderators check for cheating or rule violations, is a standard gatekeeping process in speedrunning communities.

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   Runners in speedrunning communities often exploit unintended programming oversights called glitches or sequence breaks to skip large portions of a game.

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   Tool-assisted speedruns (TAS) are a distinct category within speedrunning communities, using emulator tools to achieve theoretically perfect play frame by frame.

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   Many speedrunning communities categorize runs by whether they allow glitches, with labels like 'any%', 'glitchless', and '100%' defining distinct rule sets.

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   Speedrun.com serves as the central leaderboard platform for speedrunning communities, hosting verified records across thousands of games sorted by category and rule set.

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   Speedrunning communities organize events like Games Done Quick, a charity marathon that has raised millions of dollars for organizations such as Doctors Without Borders.

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