Cuphead Current World Record Speedrun in

This run was something truly special.
After spending around 2,200 hours playing Cuphead with likely 1,500 of those hours being on specifically this category, after 7 months on this specific grind spent doing tons of practice and strategy hunting, losing run after run to bad luck or often easy to make mistakes, all I wanted was a 27:39 to quit this category and somehow instead my efforts were rewarded with a run better than what I even had hoped for, one 6 seconds better than my end goal!
I couldn't be happier with this time and the quality of this run, starting off with the fastest Isle 1 of all time by around 3 seconds and actually maintaining the community best pace of all time on every individual split past that outside of Grim. Devil as well cooperated at the end and gave me a solid pattern to let me close out this insane run.
I have nothing more at this time that I feel I still need to give to the progression of this categories record and so I'll be retiring from it for the far foreseeable future. I do hope to make some kind of advanced tutorial to share my knowledge of the game with people in hopes it helps them on their own Cuphead speedrunning journeys.
Cuphead Speedrunning is very near and dear to my heart, something that has been a catalyst for me to really get into more speedrunning and its many great communities.
I've made a lot of friends through this and had some awesome opportunities and even made some personal growth through it all. I couldn't be more thankful towards this little hobby of trying to go fast in random games and I couldn't be more thankful towards Cuphead and its community for really being the main gateway for me to really get seriously involved in all of this.
Thank you to everyone that watched me on this journey or just to you all watching this run now, and I do hope you enjoy it!
I'll likely do more Cuphead speedrunning things at some point (maybe even all flags in the near future!).
If you're interested in that or other speedrunning/fun things I'll be messing around with in the future you could consider following my Twitch or subscribing to my KZbin for more of this content if you want, either way, thank you and have a good one :D
Watch live at - / grondious

[@thoroughlyrinsed3532]

summoning salt give this guy a video

[@wl5420]

Skilloz might, if he snags the record.

[@HotShhot]

I'm glad that the "bad ending" is not considered a valid completion of the game anymore. It was so stupid that people were speedrunning to reach the game over instead of the ending

[@wl5420]

Same

[@gengar_animations]

This is another speedrun that has the potential to stand the test of time, massive congratulations grondius.

[@markinsws]

Just so absurdly fast. It's truly astonishing to see how much this time has been pushed down.

[@holrre]

GG!!! This is literally one of the craziest runs of all time! And again: Can’t stop making World Records! Also 4 Star Skips in a run: Hilda Berg, Wally Warbles, Sally Stageplay and King Dice.

[@mumdidntraisenofool]

What a crazy run, congrats dude!

[@joshuatp]

The juiciest run ever… congrats man! Love watching you runs this game. It’s because of you I’ve started to speed run this game ands it’s given me a lot of enjoyment. Nowhere near your me level of gameplay but I have fun.

[@AleVelox]

I'm seeing this run just now, and it's just incredible. Props to you Grondious :D

[@chory9875]

I'm glad to be watching this grind for so long, this is gonna be my favorite speedrun for a while. Absolutely astonishing, congrats!!

[@MINE_OK]

It’s been a pleasure watching you grind, man. Gl with whatever you do next! Massive GG’s ❤

[@khiner]

Absolutely nuts run. Congrats, what a grind!!

[@JoelHangai]

So sad I couldn’t see this live but holy crap what an insane run. So glad you got to achieve this, you totally deserve it 🎉

[@exclamation_markyt2852]

Huge GG's on this milestone of a run! You've probably inspired so many others to try speedrunning this game, including me and my friends, I only have you to thank.

[@misterbutter4448]

I'm super happy for you Grond. Insane run, GG!

[@jacobwigley]

Bro you killed it. So so happy you got this run. I don't have any friends that play cuphead so watching your videos has made me feel in itself love the game more, I bid you farewell and look forward to your going future as I will 100% be following! GG 👊👊👊

[@timwaffel1996]

congratz dude!

[@caraquequerqueocauafaleptkkk]

GG dude, i'm new in cuphead speedruns and i'm sufering alot trying to get good times lol, and like i can't imagine how pain this was to do, and seeing a run like that is just mind blowing, huge congrats on that incredible run bro :)

[@sofias13]

this is so crazy impressive, I've been playing cuphead for a while now and it's taken me over 10 hours just to finally beat isle 1, this is so insane, congrats!

[@silveramoory]

What a great run grondious! 🎉

[@Phillyjoe2]

What an incredible run! GGs

[@jotta-brawlstars9565]

big congratulation!

[@tigran1087]

Good job bro. Very nice speedrun🤝👍

[@Quincely0]

Yo GG Grond, you deserved this after grinding for days straight. This is truly the time for 1.1. Tbh, I don't think I would've gotten sub 11 in DLC if it wasn't for you, because I almost quit last minute, but then I remembered your capabilitiy to grind for your goals, and then I eventually achieved my 10:58. You are now crowned Mr. 1-1-5.

[@Murder_Knight]

Bro, that's incredible, is the 6th wr of the year. You are the best cuphead speedrunner, and I hope you can get an sub 27

[@Pretzellll]

Wait, i blinked. What happened

[@jakec5472]

great job dude!

[@tinramsaw4104]

Yo Grond. G effin G man! That was sick!

[@Huawaiii]

omg this is absolutely insane

[@leahtheestallion7687]

Your excitement was so cute and infectious lol

[@p1g332]

What a run 🎉

[@jackmichel-el6nw]

IMPRESSIVE

[@ScoopOfButter]

i wish i was there :( oh well, GG!

[@SharplEr]

It's great!

[@XxXyzxX]

[@coleman4178]

what's the different between this run and the other run? Why is it faster?

[@damikatron]

sorry if this is common knowledge here, but I'm curious why on the aviation stages, your input display doesn't work? i'm assuming because you change input methods for those stages?

[@XxXyzxX]

as far as i know he's using the keyboard for aviation levels

[@davyjones3105]

So how do you strategize the casino minibosses? Is it just having the die land on 3 each time? Or are those the 3 fastest minibosses to beat?

[@XxXyzxX]

those are the fastest onnes

[@Jonas_Heller]

how can these spilts at the beginning be no gold?! 😨

[@haydenparker4058]

I just came from the 42:02.90

[@b51a5h]

anybody know why he deliberately EX Lobber shoots the ground instead of the actual boss? like, what makes that faster, does it do more damage or something? like at 3:41 during the frog fight

[@roller7yearsago981]

I think that trick can do 2x damage

[@b51a5h]

@@roller7yearsago981 thanks, I just learned this from the speedrunning discord, do you think it still works with the newest patch?

[@roller7yearsago981]

@@b51a5h no its fixed

[@roller7yearsago981]

@@b51a5h only works legacy version

[@theminecraftgamer8636]

what did i just watch

[@user-ou5ro3bp8e]

@Save Manual explica isso

[@SebaAvv_]

17:20 y 21:30

[@huadsondiascamargo7792]

Save Manual is late

[@samjames4352]

This ain’t world record, at least according to a video from three years ago of a 23 minute speed run

[@Grondious]

The 23 minute run is for the 1.0 version of the game which had a lot more glitches that sped up the run. On Speedrun.com these are referred to as "legacy" speedruns but my video is for version 1.1+ which is quite a bit different and this is currently the official verified record on www.speedrun.com/Cuphead for this patch and category.

[@beacon3322]

Bro wtf, waiting for sub 27

[@ninetz5296]

U are so good i am from Brazil make a video with @savemanual