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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This Week in Speedrunning: Blindfolded Mario, a Valheim reckoning, and the art of going further

September 13, 2026

This week in speedrunning had a little bit of everything: a moderation controversy that put trust and process under the microscope, a pair of Super Mario…

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This Week in Speedrunning: blindfolded Mario, a Portal singularity, and the race for the final frame

September 6, 2026

Speedrunning had one of those weeks that refuses to stay in a single lane. A new Portal exploit arrived with a name that sounds like a…

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This Week in Speedrunning: Tetris History, a Mario Odyssey Milestone, and Glitches With Feelings

August 30, 2026

This week in speedrunning felt like a tour through the whole hobby’s strange, generous range. There was a landmark documentary about Tetris, a Mario Odyssey run…

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This Week in Speedrunning: A FireRed bounty, broken F.E.A.R., and curiosity at full speed

August 23, 2026

This week in speedrunning had a little bit of everything: a bounty-chasing Pokémon breakthrough, a twenty-year excavation of a first-person shooter, and enough tiny leaderboards to…

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This Week in Speedrunning: Four Frames, Broken Knights, and the Human Limit

August 15, 2026

Speedrunning had one of those weeks where the frontier seemed to move and then immediately ask for a smaller ruler. Super Mario Bros. any% is now…

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