Speedrunning Speedrunning and the Scientific Method In a previous post, I wrote about speedrunning and I asked myself why I found it so enthralling. Well, I should clarify that. I’ve watched a couple of Pokémon speedrunners grinding runs, which was supremely uninteresting. I watched pokeguy84 swear and reset repeatedly, and dropped in on an Exarion
Speedrunning Very preliminary thoughts and questions on speedrunning I’ve only recently discovered speedrunning. It’s a fairly obscure corner of gaming culture, so here’s a quick explanation that Kosmicd12, current holder of the Super Mario Bros. world record, gave to FiveThirtyEight: The goal of speedrunning is to go fast.Yup, that’s all there is to
