This Week in Speedrunning: Ocarina’s physics, Minecraft’s sub-30, and a week of beautiful chaos

November 14, 2026

Some weeks in speedrunning are about a single record falling by a few frames. This was not one of those weeks. The big story across the…

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This Week in Speedrunning: Mario Finds His Voice, Ocarina Finds Its Rhythm, and Glitches Refuse to Stay Buried

November 7, 2026

Speedrunning had one of those weeks where the joke became the strategy, an ancient mystery turned out to have a blinking rhythm, and several games that…

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This Week in Speedrunning: Door Skips, Broken SpongeBob, and the Joy of Going Too Fast

October 31, 2026

Speedrunning had one of those weeks where the phrase “new route” covered almost everything from a genuinely historic glitch to a runner figuring out how to…

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This Week in Speedrunning: Ancient Tricks, New Records, and Nothing Is Finished

October 24, 2026

Speedrunning had one of those weeks where the past refused to stay finished. A nearly three-decade-old game crossed a barrier its community had treated as mythical,…

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This Week in Speedrunning: Calculator chaos, a Bikini Bottom warp, and a week of impossible edges

October 17, 2026

Speedrunning had one of those weeks where the word “category” felt almost too small. A calculator was bullied into producing four different flavors of failure, a…

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This Week in Speedrunning: Archive fever, Banjo breakthroughs, and a door left open

October 10, 2026

Speedrunning had a distinctly archival mood this week. The big conversation was not only about who was fastest, but about whether the record books will still…

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This Week in Speedrunning: TAS-Tie Tension, Cosmic Rays, and the Long Game

October 10, 2026

Speedrunning had one of those weeks where the word human started to feel like a technicality. A Mario player reached a split the community has treated…

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This Week in Speedrunning: TAS-Tie Tension, Cosmic Rays, and the Long Game

October 3, 2026

Speedrunning had one of those weeks where the word human started to feel like a technicality. A Mario player reached a split the community has treated…

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This Week in Speedrunning: 40-track karting, microscopic Mario gains, and a sandwich TAS

September 27, 2026

Speedrunning had a little bit of everything this week: a gigantic Mario Kart milestone, microscopic Super Mario Bros. improvements, old games getting fresh attention, and enough…

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This Week in Speedrunning: Hyrule endurance, blindfolded Mario, and the trust gap

September 20, 2026

Speedrunning had a little bit of everything this week: a 14-hour pilgrimage through Hyrule, a blindfolded Mario 64 milestone, a Wii Sports barrier finally cracking, and…

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