Speedrunning

Speedrunning is the practice of completing a video game as quickly as possible. Runners use agreed rules and record performances for comparison on leaderboards.

Speedrun route: A planned sequence of actions and objectives used to complete a game quickly. Routes organize the sequence of levels, items, and skips that shapes a run.
Real-time attack: A competition format that ranks players by the time needed to complete a game or challenge. Speedrunning is a form of real-time attack, usually organized around specific games and rules.
Super Mario 64 speedrunning: The competitive practice of completing Super Mario 64 quickly under category-specific rules. Its stars, movement techniques, and skips support several distinct route strategies.
Billy Mitchell: An American arcade gamer known for high scores and disputes over record verification. His record controversies helped draw attention to evidence standards in competitive gaming.
Glitch art: Art that uses digital errors or glitches as an expressive visual or conceptual element. Speedrunners' deliberate use of glitches has made unintended game behavior visible as a creative resource.
Sequence breaking: Completing a game objective or reaching an area outside the intended order. Breaking the intended sequence can bypass lengthy sections of a run.
In-game time: A duration measured by a game's own timer, which may pause or omit certain periods. Its result can differ from wall-clock timing when the game timer excludes events.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time speedrunning: The competitive practice of completing Ocarina of Time quickly using routes and techniques permitted by category rules. The game's sequence breaks and glitches have produced radically different routes.
Summoning Salt: A video creator known for documentaries about the histories of video game records. His work traces how speedrun records and techniques change over time.
Video game preservation: The work of maintaining access to video games and their software, hardware, and cultural records. Run archives and technical analysis preserve knowledge about how games behave.

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