Some of the Shortest Speedruns EVER

I have compiled some of “The Shortest Speedruns Ever”. Buckle up!
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Intro Music by RJ ZaskerF:
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Hong Kong 97 8 Bit Remix by eggo76:
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Music Used:
0:00 - RJ ZaskerF - I'm Not Running
0:43 - Gradius III - Departure For Space
2:16 - Lethal Weapon SNES - Ending Music
3:24 - Barbie Vacation Adventure - Texas
4:28 - Raiden Trad - Gallantry
5:45 - eggo76 - Hong Kong 97 Theme - 8 Bit Remix
6:25 - M&M's Kart Racing - Pop 1
7:27 - Monopoly PC - Hit it Chuck
8:16 - Jeopardy! Genesis Theme
9:23 - Zool CD32 - Title Music
10:10 - Sonic Adventure 2 - Escape From the City (Instrumental)
10:48 - Puyo Puyo Fever (DS) - It's The Teacher's Lesson
11:27 - Snood GBA - Track 1
12:08 - Scooby Doo and the Cyber Chase - Warp Room
12:51 - War of the Gems - Amazon
15:44 - Theme of Jet Mole Dangerous - Super Famicom
18:08 - GT Racing Super Famicom - Final
#Storster #Speedrun

[@xxElyonxx]

the current record for the 1998 clue pc game is 583 milliseconds, it's pretty much how fast you can choose a suspect, weapon, and room and get lucky enough for it to be correct

[@Atlas.Brooklyn]

@@grandmastermario3695 learn to use basic punctuation please

[@frightenedsoul]

@@grandmastermario3695 didn’t know comments had time limits

[@Atlas.Brooklyn]

@@grandmastermario3695 why? Because you have such a short attention span that a couple months is a long time? Unfortunately for you, internet comments are largely forever

[@B3Band]

@@grandmastermario3695 Why are you so obsessed with the age of the post? To make matters worse, youtube comments are not even arranged by time, so older comments are always going to be near the top, since newer ones are less likely to have a lot of likes. So it's absolutely fucking stupid to think that a comment being 4 months old actually means something.

[@Frostbytedigital]

​@Grand Master Mario yo remember a year ago when you got roasted for having bad grammar? Lol, Well I'm just now encountering it, along with this video. It turns out, Comments you don't edit or delete really are basically forever. Lol. I'm just playing. Hope you and your game of life has been going well.

[@piratebear3126]

Deal or No Deal was even released on DVD, I had it as a kid. Like a version that played using DVD menus on any random DVD player. I was more fascinated by a game being on DVD than the game itself, and if I’m remembering right a few old FMV games were also released on DVD.

[@andrewvee7078]

I got the same game that's nuts

[@TeraunceFoaloke]

at least one of the releases of the 2nd (or 5th?) Harry Potter movie had a game where you escaped from Aragog's brood in the flying car.

[@KingBat]

I remember a temple run/dragon's lair slide game being included on the Ice Age DVD. I wonder if that would be worthwhile to Speedrun?

[@KingBat]

@@grandmastermario3695 so are we gonna make DVD game Speedruns a thing or what?

[@idontwantahandlethough]

@@grandmastermario3695 I have one question for you... WHY?!

[@drewhavens3821]

Good video! I'm surprised Civ 5 didn't make the list. It has 18 people tied at 033 milliseconds for the Any% WR lol!

[@matthewgladback8905]

It's pretty hilarious; you set up a game with no opponents and immediately win a domination victory due to having no opponents (as soon as the game loads in.) There's a Paradox Interactive game (EU4?) where you can complete an "Any% run" by losing the game immediately. You start the game as some nation with active separatist rebels and surrender to them as soon as possible.

[@RandomBurfness]

I think an equally interesting video could be one on shortest 100% speedruns!

[@Storster]

That's an awesome idea, I may have to look into that!

[@FilmsYouHate]

One of the games I used to moderate (Hacknet) had a category called 1337%, which allowed for any cheats. The wr was set at 1 frame (33ms)

[@zo6679]

What game was it?

[@FilmsYouHate]

@@zo6679 hacknet

[@phlee1629]

@@FilmsYouHate lol

[@zGoldenHawk]

@@zo6679 👍

[@zo6679]

lol just found this comment again past me sure was a genius

[@lostGash]

Honestly, I'd love to see a "short speedruns" list ranked by ratio of speedrun_time:average_casual_playthrough_time. An hour-long run of a 5 hour game would be "shorter" than a 5 minute long speedrun of a 10 minute long game, for example.

[@7EEVEE]

That's what I hoped this was going to be tbh

[@konuralpyldzkan1495]

GTA San Andreas would be in that list then

[@vaclavtrpisovsky]

Do you count TASes? SMB3 has a glitch where overfilling the input buffer leads to arbitrary code execution and a 0.3s run. That's roughly a 1:10000 ratio by your metrics.

[@lostGash]

@@vaclavtrpisovsky that's a fun ratio, but I think to keep things interesting, you'd have to compile the list based on non-TAS runs.

[@lostGash]

Not that it wouldn't be fun to see a list of TAS runs on the same metric. But I think for interesting content, you'd want to keep those categories separate

[@norskspilldub4778]

This makes me wonder if there's a community for speedrunning Disney DVD games that were often included as a bonus feature on several movies.

[@grandmastermario3695]

I enjoy speedrunning Bambi adventure game and also lion king 1 and a half but there's no leaderboard for them but yah I kind of would love there to be more leaderboards for dvd games but there aren't really any

[@norskspilldub4778]

@@grandmastermario3695 That's a shame... If even bootleg games can get leaderboards, official dvd games should've had them too

[@FriendlyKillbot]

Don't forget the Nethack "Fastest Death" TAS for PC, where you die before the game even begins.

[@GmNdWtchr96]

The Homestar Runner game "Where's An Egg?" can be beaten pretty quickly by just shooting the first suspect you see.

[@misterdeedeedee]

7:30 "have you seen a platform list this large? theres probably even a way to make this work in a microwave" doom: *AM I A JOKE TO YOU*

[@Mornings]

The scooby doo game saving the password is perfect LOL

[@HoloKnight]

I think the SHORTEST, if we include all types of runs, is Stranded Isle Death%, which can be completed in 0 frames since timing is from first input and zombies can kill you before you do anything. A 0 frame run at least has to be tied for shortest run ever, right?

[@fibbel7537]

Hi holo

[@HoloKnight]

Fancy seeing you here

[@musaran2]

IIRC, In NetHack you can die before ever having control too. It relies on activating auto-pickup, and setting a clock (random seed) that generates a cursed item on the starting tile.

[@LoudmouthLee]

This was one of the first times ever I clicked a compilation and wondered if my speedrun was going to be featured! It wasn't (I have the WR in the Google Doodle of Celebrating Pizza at around 24 seconds). Many of these speedruns are incredibly exact. It's quite fun!

[@fibbel7537]

Hi from google doodle speedrunning community lol

[@sovrinn16]

Awesome stuff. Some of the super short ones feel more like technicalities, but Master System Zool has to take the cake for legit credits warp in a retail release.

[@lapiscarrot3557]

9:48 Is there a reasonable explanation for why this works? Considering this is a credits warp on an old system, it probably uses arbitrary code execution, but since there wasn't any setup for the warp, I am out of ideas.

[@CalmBat]

It reminds me of the sonic 3d blast crash handling that was used to get around Sega testing to get the game licensed. In essence, if the game detected that it crashed, it would being you to a "secret" stage select screen, therefore making it seem like the crash never happened. This is just speculation, but if I had to guess I would bet this would be a similar situation, where the game starts to crash, the game detects it and sends it to the end credits to hide the crash and reset the game. If you want more info about that sonic thing, the channel game hut (who is also the creator of that game) made a video explaining it.

[@SoulcatcherLucario]

the game can't handle two animations at once, and so the game crashes to the credits

[@soycialist]

The default cutscene for the game is probably the credits. so when someone does some animations that the game can’t compute, it just plays the credits

[@lctaco]

I wonder who got the 35 on ds? Must be a pretty cool person. All jokes aside it's cool to see monopoly Speedruns mentioned, it's such a popular boardgame with a very small speedrun community.

[@piggywink333]

You used a comma instead of a period or semi colon

[@lctaco]

@@piggywink333 guess the world ends now

[@trevorgray3681]

Oh boy I better submit a monopoly run on android before it gets popular and I never have wr. Already beat it by minutes but wasn't screen recording. I didn't think I'd get it

[@idontwantahandlethough]

@@trevorgray3681 do it! Attain glory!

[@the-engneer]

I bet me and my older brother could get a live board game Speedrun record. It bugs me when people think Monopoly is a long game, because they don't know how to trade property, and horde their cash for no reason

[@SiegmundXD7]

I usually like longer runs, but it’s only when a run starts to fall into the 20-30 min mark that I think “oh, that was short”

[@samuele64246]

As an Italian I wouldn't expect the "affari tuoi" game on this video... I remember having this game and playing with mum when I was 6/7

[@youtubeneedstochange4414]

This guy really needs more subs. This kind of consistent production with only 11K subs is practically criminal.

[@gravity_freaks]

Excellent content. The small improvements to videos (live action skits etc) don’t go unnoticed keep it up!

[@emilyofjane]

Don’t forget the Neopets flash game Fashion Fever. Literally all you have to do is click “start”, “end game”, and then “send score.” It’s my favorite speedrun ever lmao

[@linguini1517]

Since you mentioned mm's cart crash speedrun, there are some even more insane crash speedruns. Portal crash% is the guaranteed shortest speedrun ever, with a wr of exactly 0 seconds. The run could get crazier than that, because a -1.5 second time could be possible. And for the same category in half life 2, it could be around -1:30.

[@JackQNielsen]

Just discovered you in my recommended videos after going on a Summoning Salt and Abyssoft, your videos are top quality man! You deserve 100x the subs you currently have no doubt

[@MannifyYT2023]

#CORRECTTHESUBMINUTE

[@trackeralias1124]

Love the list, expected to see the Zelda ocarina of time run here, specially as people have managed to beat the game within the time-limited demo included on smash bros! great seeing alotof these older titles, Zool takes me back!

[@JazzyWaffles]

Oh my god I forgot about The Lampshade of No Significance, this just revived an old memory haha

[@danemartin5288]

Agreed. Anything without chutes or ladders is not worth talking about

[@sagacious03]

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

[@fibbel7537]

Quick draw is a really cool speedrun that has had a lot of work put into lowering the WR in the past year. It's very unique in that you are working against Google's AI in order to go fast, so we have found a lot of cool quirks with drawing that exploit the AI in interesting ways. Thanks for featuring it! I would definitely recommend trying it out to anyone looking for a short speedgame!

[@TheGlitched64]

I was going to comment it, but you actually had it in the video! The lampshade of no real significance was the first sort of meme game I remember on speedrun com about a decade back when it was a lot more humble, 50 runners getting times in the span of a couple weeks was a massive deal and I had to hop in on it. Didn’t get a great time but it was a fun hour grinding and editing my run. Good memories

[@TheGlitched64]

Edit: 5:44 oh hey there I am! What a bad time to have displayed…. Great now I need to come back to it lol

[@Storster]

I see this video has blown up recently! Appreciate all the subscribers and such! If you want to see more I have both a discord and a 2nd channel linked in the description. Planning to upload some proper stuff there soon as well!

[@Swampert_Tube]

You forgor💀 about Putt-Putt saves the zoo WR is 31 seconds

[@awsmrs]

I legit actually own a few Perplexuses myself including the Epic and tje Rookie you highlighted in the video. I had ZERO idea people even speedran trying to complete them the fastest but I DID know you could shake it to move the ball anywhere (which is basically what I did every time the ball fell off to get back to where I was XD)

[@Reth_Hard]

It sucks that when can't send our speedrun times about sax... I'd probably be at least in the top 3. :(

[@rossworkshop2799]

My man over there playing Affari tuoi, that was pretty damn unexpected. Mamma mia

[@eduardoneves3070]

Most crazy and funny update. Great work. Thanks

[@CinnamonOwO]

Dude that Elf game was one of the games I've played as a little girl. I forgot about it until now

[@The_Humbugg]

Another crazy short speedrun is Third World Farmers Any% and Death%. Any% is currently at 44 seconds and is at the cusp of sub 40, while Death% is at 2.180 seconds from ArcticWolf

[@autismandgaming4532]

The current World Record for Five nights at Freddys’ Golden freddy % is 0.05 seconds by Odyssey Central

[@Lawviathan]

This was a fun watch! Thanks!

[@pyromaniacforhire]

The fact that you know War of the Gems makes me happy! Subbed!

[@Vitorio582]

Whoa, I was a Zelda Lampshade speedrunner! I was really not expecting to see it in this video. 5:41 There I am in the 44th position

[@bumpcontrol]

I had that candy land chutes and ladders game, that was fire was a kid

[@the1stwing]

My guess on the M&M Racing crash is cause of this trick racing games use which is to use checkpoints throughout the track to your position, so my guess is that you trigger a checkpoint earlier than intended and the game has a stroke

[@browncoatkevin]

Dead% in Nethack has a logical minimum of only a couple frames. Spawn on a cross-aligned artifact, autopickup grabs it, it kills you, dead.

[@kkeithf]

Cool! Subbed,keep it coming.

[@scabzilla]

I fucking love this dude's sarcasm neatly folded into a strip of seriousness

[@IceBrys]

Another fun run, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy has an any% world record of like 0.128 seconds

[@nova2h390]

Still remember that night when I kept resetting for a new pb in minesweeper (the newer one tho) Got a sub 4 after a few hours but then it got retimed :(

[@hahhah42speedruns]

Not only did I go on Newgrounds in the early 00s, coming back to Newgrounds in the late 10s is what got me into speedrunning thanks to some of their time trial leaderboards :).Also, my favorite game to speedrun is available on Newgrounds and has an any% wr of 79 seconds: Grippy!

[@RianQuenlin]

Some of these records go straight into "Yeah, very funny." territory.

[@Puddings]

Hey! Action Girlz Racing Any% WR Holder here! Awesome video! Saw my All Cups run on screen and I started freaking out! If you're wondering why you weren't able to WR, it's probably just slightly unoptimal clicking and your Wii possibly having slower loads. I will admit I also spend about an hour trying for my record! Love your content in general, especially the M&M's Kart Racing, as a shovelware fan, that's been a favorite of mine for years, I've just never thought to submit my times XD

[@triskai]

I remember actually looking up perplexus speedruns once because I realized you could skip to the end instantly and got curious, and seeing that somebody already thought of that lmao

[@JK-gm6kk]

I wonder if there's a leaderboard for military web based CDC's (career development courses, I believe). We always screenshot every frame to come back to when taking the tests.

[@linkly9272]

I never once expected to be reminded of "The Legend of Zelda: The Lampshade of No Real Significance".

[@spoobini]

I remember being at target and seeing the original Perplexus on display, and i found the skip the first time that i picked it up, so I decided not to buy it because i already beat it.

[@Clonekiller66]

New any % Perplexes Speedrun Get the ball out. Take hammer, smash toy. Run complete

[@fan0]

Ik that is a joke, but it will still take longer than shaking it.

[@matthewrogersmusic]

Memory unlocked. That legend of Zelda lampshade game was one of my favorites growing up.

[@ZachGatesHere]

Amazed I haven't heard of these before lol

[@genis1679]

There's a game called The Town with No Name, which is a pretty badly made point and click adventure game with multiple choice options at times. The first choice in the entire game is when the protagonist gets out of the train and arrives at the town, then you get the choice to go back into the train which just triggers the end credits, so the any% category is just the first cutscene of the game lol. It's like 14 seconds or something like that. I'm one of the world record holders

[@makitstop]

Two worlds has an insanely funny speedrun, that is also under 2 minutes (1m 41s) so normally the game is over 20 hours but there's a part very near the beginning of the game, where the main villain is hanging out outside a village to give you some quests but, if you aggro him, and bait him into shooting a fireball at one of the villagers, the entire village dogpiles him, and beats the fuck out of him until he dies now normally, this would do nothing but in this game, the ending cutscene is tied to the NPC dying so, when he inevitably gets killed by the villagers, you win

[@grande1900]

m&m racing really is nostalgia for me, I used to play that game all the time on the Wii when I was like 6

[@Yeah_itsJohn]

My favorite extremely short speedrun is Mr. Game & Watch's Target Test in Smash Melee where you do 2 Up-Bs and finish with a time of approximately 2 seconds

[@sushicat999]

Great video!

[@KingSammelot]

10:59 I've never laughed so hard in my entire life omg

[@nugboy420]

SNOOD! I was bringing that game up in another random video’s KZbin comments not too long ago. Don’t remember whose video it was or why it was brought up but I remember saying to myself wow that’s a blast from the past I haven’t played that since the early 2000s

[@danclayton9551]

Great video! :)

[@JayDeeIsMyName]

Your list of music used in the description destroys the timestamp-function 😂

[@TheMacCheechMan]

Mario Kart Super Circuit has a glitch in Cheese Land that allows you to beat the course in 4 seconds, skipping laps 2&3 altogether

[@ProjSHiNKiROU]

Besiege are the fastest speedruns I know of, since it’s a vehicle building game with in-game timer + slow motion slider. Speedrunners will build an explosive device that detonate in a few milliseconds to destroy the objectives and send the core block to the goal.

[@Arwcwb]

Just what i was looking for.

[@elbiggus]

I think shortness is kind of relative; I consider the WR any% 11 minute speedrun of Fallout 4 to be "shorter" than the 4:54 Super Mario any% based on the fact that casual/100%/glitchless runs of F4 are proportionally longer than the equivalent Mario runs. It's like "is 4 a lot? Dollars, no; murders yes".

[@TomahawkRiddles]

The game called "Muck" made by popular KZbinr "Dani" has the category "Obtain A Rock" which has been done in less than a second.

[@Patralgan]

The TAS for Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance is the funniest speedrun I've seen. It's completely unhinged and it's over in just 23 seconds

[@jarrettrodriguez5341]

I love your videos!

[@someonespecial1329]

There is a Super Mario Bros 3 TAS that completes the game using beyond frame perfect inputs, in under 1 second

[@arospacecase]

10:31 if i had a nickel for every time there was an infinite jump glitch in a notoriously bad sonic game, i'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

[@janAkaliKilo]

It's just a bad code.

[@five12man]

I got that reference

[@nodthenbow]

You'd have at least three, 06, boom, and this one. There are more infinite jump glitches in multiple other sonic games but I don't know if they would count as notoriously bad.

[@ali_m_]

i see that you've watched pnf acrosss the second dimension, another man of culture i see.

[@KariCow]

candy land, chutes and ladders and memory on the GBA brings back some memories i forgot even existed

[@mrchristoph5674]

Quotes person not having 10 mins, makes 20 min video. I appreciate this video BTW. It's just funny.

[@JK-gm6kk]

6.6666 (edginess intensifies) WHAM! Remember Snood?! Nostalgia whiplash. Played snood so freakin much

[@bananacat3109]

I love how you try these yourself

[@ReceptiveRaptor]

08:51 In Australia we even have Deal or No Deal arcade cabinets.

[@sfisher923]

I found one in the US as well in fact it's in the city I live in

[@MORON_Gaming]

Great video.

[@Sir_Uncle_Ned]

I had a version of Deal or No Deal on my Nokia 6120c. It was dreadful, but it killed time all the same.

[@LiberalSquared]

If your Mii didn't have that mole or freckle on his right cheek, and was a little taller, it would literally be 100% the same as my Mii growing up.

[@mintyemerald3935]

Thank you for reminding me of the name of one of my favorite GBA game! God bless you god for sacken soul!

[@pawer_themaw]

MC Classic meme categories: *Hold my beer, kiddo*

[@noobfl]

even without ingame sound.. i can hear Hongkong 97 - make it away xD

[@Californ1a]

Antichamber is about 43 seconds with a warp glitch that lets you just warp directly to the end very early.

[@TheGreenW87nen]

Earned a sub

[@2cool4]

#CorrectTheSubMinute This was amazing storster! keep it up!

[@xDakem]

New follower here. Nice work!

[@madn]

I'm missing the clue/cluedo record of just immediately guessing something random and hoping to have it right.

[@CardfightVanja]

IIRC my first experience with the internet was trying to play Sonic XX on 4kids over dialup

[@soyzsoy]

One of the short ones i found is 0:33 seconds on castle crashers softlock%, at around 33 seconds by Thatchbro

[@HXSKlmfao]

there is a seterra map for Sweden that is literally one municipal and you beat it in 0.033 seconds there are also a dozen seterra maps that can be beaten in under 1 seconds with brute forcing

[@cheetahgaming1873]

There is a Muck speedrun category called Collect rock%, the WR is 0.001 second.

[@tarotsport1451]

I can guarantee you that the chutes and ladders speedrun can be beaten with least moves possible 100% of the time by a tas. Two opportunities are that it’s cycles through 1-6 or the numbers you land on are predetermined. If it’s the latter then you can just reverse engineer the rng system (which is likely when you start the game or something controllable) and always get the same result.

[@ShadowMewto]

For someone this small you put a LOT of effort into your videos and it shows. Your content is really interesting and, in my opinion, is just as good as someone like EZScape. Lets just hope you get the same attention.

[@XcaliburKurosaki]

"You just walk to the end." Me: "How did A Link To The Past Any% get here...?"

[@the8thark]

Great video. I am surprised Clue is not on this video.

[@Storster]

If I ever make a part two ill definitely have clue. I just cut my list down for the sake of time

[@David2073]

The reason some speedruns are VERY long: Cutscenes (duh...) The entire game is 1+ hour long Or if they're using a glitch to warp to the credits: They may need a certain item for it, like the bottle in Ocarina of Time (Bottle Adventure Glitch, the fastest bottle takes at least 5 minutes) Or if they're doing a 100% run: No way they can get everything in less than 1 hour (it takes at least one week to a casual player)

[@mountnstream]

"[In Sudoku Fever], you save the chocolate factory, stop the rotten..." I'll admit that due to Storster's authoritative voice, I was on board with that sentence and thought it made sense at first. It was a real "Wait, what?" moment.