History
The first game to be voluntarily speedrun
What is Metroid?
The method a player uses to go up stairs at high speeds
What is a Backwards Long Jump?
The Game Engine that Karlson was made in
What is Unity?
The Most common speedrun type, beat the game as fast as possible with no holds barred
What is Any%?
The name of the lightweight files DOOM used to record playthroughs
What are Demos?
What is 70 stars?
The strategy where a player jumps while moving side to side in order to build up speed
What is air strafing?
The game category in which you need to beat the game with every achievement
What is 100%?
The predecessor to DOOM that was also geared towards speedrunning
What is Wolfenstein?
The world record holder for 0-star and 1-star speedruns
Who is KANNO?
Core mechanic of Karlson that speedrunners avoid whenever possible
What is time slowing?
The least common category where you need to beat the game with as little done as possible
What is Low%?
The first speedrunning site
What is Speed Demos Archive?
The time taken in the 0-star world record
What is 6:27?
The amount of levels in Karlson
What is 11?
The two types of any% run
What are any% unrestricted and any% glitchless?
The year that SDA became a dedicated speedrunning website
What is 2003?
The place where the BLJ skip was originally shown
What is Club Nintendo?
3 similarities to Super Mario 64
What are controls, speed, and genre?
Beating a game with a unique restriction
What are challenge runs?