What does speedrun mean?
Speedruns have, in one form or another, been around as long as video games have existed. Noun. A non-tool-assisted speedrun of a game that is timed using a separate timer from that of any in-game timer. The timing method itself used to time such speedruns.Real-Time Attack means you do a run single-segment, start to finish. You can think of RTA as a standard recorded speedrun. There is a concept called Theory TAS which differs from normal TASing as it tries to only use strats that can be in theory used by a human player.
What does any mean in speedrun?
Any%, which involves getting to the end as fast as possible with no qualifier, 100%, which requires full completion of a game. This may entail obtaining all items or may use some other metric. Low%, the opposite of 100%, which requires the player to beat the game while completing the minimum amount possible. Any% simply means complete the game with any percentage of completion. In simpler terms, it means just to reach the end of the game with no restrictions on what needs to be completed, you just need to reach the end as fast as you can. Ivory, and StarSpeed like this.Low% is a common category in many other speedruns where you are meant to beat the game with as few items as possible. For this category it would be gathering as few items as possible on a set seed (glitchless).Any%, which involves getting to the end as fast as possible with no qualifier, 100%, which requires full completion of a game. This may entail obtaining all items or may use some other metric. Low%, the opposite of 100%, which requires the player to beat the game while completing the minimum amount possible.
What is speedrunning slang for?
While speedrunning at its simplest is playing a game as quickly as you can, there are categories for each game with specific objectives. Speedrunning at its core is when someone attempts to play and complete a video game as quickly as they possibly can. Once a speedrun is completed the player will upload a video of their run and have the time posted to an online leaderboard to compete with the rest of the world.