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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This Week in Speedrunning: Niftski Chases the TAS, Werster Fallout, and Speedrunning Gets Weird

August 8, 2026

It was another week where speedrunning managed to be simultaneously incredibly precise, deeply technical, unexpectedly wholesome, and completely unhinged. The biggest story by far came from…

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This Week in Speedrunning: Big Records, New Discoveries, and the Joy of the Unknown

August 1, 2026

Another week in speedrunning delivered exactly what makes the hobby so compelling: major world records, creative new glitches, impressive community tools, and a reminder that sometimes…

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