Portal 2 Speedrun World Record in

World's First 55 minute Portal 2 Fullgame Speedrun! Many months of grinding went into this speedrun, and I'm very happy to be the first person to go under 56 minutes in Portal 2. This run was very good from start to finish, the only part im a little unsatisfied with is chapter 8 where i bled quite a few seconds.
High quality render of this run: • Portal 2 in 55:57 - Hi...
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[@Burger40]

Hey everyone, thank you for over 30K views! This run is pretty special to me so I'm happy many people are finding it. I wanted to answer some of the questions from the comment section about the run in this comment. Why turrets can't kill me?!?? -On the map "Wakeup" ( 5:15 in the video ) when Glados picks up Chell the game gives her temporary invincibility to make sure she can't die during the cutscene. By exiting the level earlier than the game expects (via standing on the clipboard on the incinerator), it doesn't have time to remove this invincibility from the player. Thus we retain this state until the end of the game. Why stand in front of the elevators for so long!!!!! -Most levels in the game will only transition to the next when the dialogue that's currently playing has finished. (There are some levels where this isn't the case, or the dialogue is too short). In the elevator shaft there are invisible triggers that if the elevator reaches AND the dialogue has finished, the game will transition to the next level. These triggers in the elevator shaft are placed every now and then, so by timing our elevator entry at a precise point in the end dialogue, we make sure that the elevator reaches one of these triggers exactly when the dialogue finishes. This can save up to a minute or two throughout the whole run. WTF is "Bhop MODE"? Sounds suspicious!! -It's just a text box that shows up whenever i press a bind that switches my mouse wheel up and down to jumping. Similarly "SPAM E" switches my mouse wheel to spamming the E key (or rather the "use" function), usually I do this to press buttons a tiny bit quicker on average. Both of these binds are obviously allowed, the text box is just something I added for fun, most other runners use binds like these, you just can't tell when they press it. As to why i spam Bhop mode so often: Just a weird habit at this point lol If I see more questions in the future I'll update this comment.

[@CynicalBlob]

your welcome

[@ParIoYT]

are you hacker

[@Burger40]

no

[@CynicalBlob]

@@Burger40 you are. 100% My proof: your smarter than the normal person, YOUR CHEATING!

[@raffertymetcalfe]

this will greatly benefit the economy

[@quarter_s]

dow jones is +69420

[@MARSHTMP]

stonks

[@tamarinds]

Thanks a lot Obama

[@CantEven]

This video changed my life, congrats on the huge milestone fr

[@Msushi]

This video changed my life

[@wndhrtlss3633]

Again? Damn

[@C0astinG4mer]

Upload again plz you need to change my life again😫

[@connorputnam1]

Plz upload I love your vids

[@MorrrisEk]

If i would get a cent everytime i saw u commenting this under someones speedrun i would get 2 cents. maybe its not much but its funny that it happend twice. for now

[@sl4y3r_s1xx]

Same

[@arthur1221000]

45:46 lolaireeagle said in chat time would be 55:57.625, final time was 55:57.63 (possible 625 if 3 digits after .), that's quite a nice prediction

[@Hyebri]

Was about to comment it lmao, bro was spot on.

[@iolaireeagle]

thank you thank you

[@StarlitWitchy]

​@@iolaireeagle the messiah had graced us with their presence!!! o:

[@ahmed4363]

​@@iolaireeaglehave you tried the lottery yet?

[@jikkohelloua5922]

also the 8ball answered to him that this will be a sub 56 run at 47:46

[@Shizzal]

This will go down in the history books! Huge day for Portal 2. Congratulations!

[@DrKoneko]

Wow, cant believe I randomly found the world record right when a significant milestone was hit. Congrats!!

[@Surfboarder4]

been a few years since I last saw a Portal 2 WR Speedrun, I continue to be amazed by the new routes being found!

[@JaioCG]

Very well could be one the final minute barrier without something game breaking being found. GG!

[@iolaireeagle]

!fact Burger is the 🐐

[@thefunnydoge]

The level at which burger has improved over the past couple years is just legendary

[@katastrofa025]

No. Freaking. Way. I JUST WATCHED VIDEO ABOUT YOU A MINUTE AGO ?! I was watching that video about portal most hardest and impossible skips, then you dropkick all these speedrunners who couldn't do toast skip, and they started to copy you. So i got curious to watch best speedrun on portal 2. AND YOUR VIDEO POP UP, FRESH ONE AS WELL, ARE YOU LIKE WHAT, PLAYING PORTAL 24/7/365 ? You are absolutely madman, ur the best

[@theomnivert]

I took the same path to reach here just a week after you lol. This guy is truly insane

[@purp.squared]

yes he has 5k hours

[@purp.squared]

so like 2/3 years

[@Tankfird]

Loved watching the grind over the past month! Insane achievement

[@Ziroikabi]

This was amazing to watch massive GGs on the new minute barrier!

[@protaties]

Burger40 is the most frequent wr breaker I know.

[@phaze_in_spaze]

Your progression makes me wanna speedrun this game. Huge congrats on the sub 56!! 💪

[@purp.squared]

great speedgame its really fun

[@phaze_in_spaze]

@@purp.squared perhaps I should try it out sometime then

[@PerOculos]

The sheer moments.... toast skip, ceiling catapult, the backup portal stand shot quickness in bridge intro, btg cube throw to button just to regrab when it landed, ALMOST LASER RELAYS, triple laser two assassin like switch glitches, you can save time in neuro sabo PREWALKING? , the early shot in core, railing hop in cave johnson, wtf the cube grab in crazy box, prop flings landing on the ending railing just to edgebug off it and get right to the elevator, and making madin suffer the regrets of his easier routes in prop catch. Damn, what a thing. Gratz on the 57, I'ma go get a Peanut Butter burger from SONIC.

[@PrisBtw]

insane to see it finally happen, very much deserved congrats

[@black_semka9528]

It's finally there!! Big congratulations!

[@ForestMastr]

This is such a monumental run that I'm not eating a burger for the next 40 days in honor of the 40 (more or less) portals used in this run

[@aitorito2527]

Amazing accomplishment, the portal 2 community waited for this day

[@zaspany2115]

Wow, congrats! I also tried speedrunning portal 2 for a bit but after I saw the difficulty of some of the tricks you need I gave up. Glad to see someone still breaking huge time barriers.

[@tamari4]

it took me 9 (yea i know) hours to beat this game the first time and i couldn't stop thinking about it the whole time i was watching this vid. amazing job

[@purp.squared]

took me 3 weeks, more or less. i can now beat it in 1:40:00 just about

[@tamari4]

@@purp.squared 3 weeks 😭. how??

[@purp.squared]

@@tamari4i spread the playthrough so i do a chapter every other day (just about)

[@tamari4]

@@purp.squared you've got the patience!

[@Lance3015]

why are you/is he stopping at every edge of the elevator looking downwards, is it just for fun, or does it somehow trigger faster elevator closings? i watched some vids on portal speed run tactics, but its the first time seeing this tbh. did i somehow miss out on that? also congrats :D amazing run

[@ryanhodin5014]

It's not about the closing, it's about the actual elevator ride - But, it's a little thing that's very old in the community so people don't really think of it as a 'tactic' - It's more like strafing or bhopping, where it's just a given of speedrunning the game. The game doesn't want you to miss dialog - So, when you get in the elevator and start riding it along, the game starts checking periodically if a flag is set for the dialog to be done playing. If it is set, then the level transitions, otherwise it keeps going until the next periodic check. The dialog ending doesn't end the level, then - It just allows the elevator to do so next time it hits a check. The only other way to hit the transition is if you ride all the way to the bottom of the shaft and the game force-transitions with the dialog playing as a result - I think there's at least one chamber where this is done, but I could be wrong/out of date on that. Regardless, that means the correct way to end a chamber that leads to an elevator is to trigger the last line of dialog as soon as possible, then start the elevator as soon as possible such that it hits a transition check immediately after ending the dialog. Since the checks are predetermined (no RNG involved), and we know how long the dialog is, that means that there's a specific number of ticks after that last line starts on each level (differing per-level because the dialog isn't always the same length) that you should wait before stepping inside - Which is called an elevator fade, or ele fade if you don't have much time (which, I mean, speedrunner). TASes can just kind of wing this, muck about for a moment to be flashy, and then frame-perfectly jump into the elevator, because they're TASes. Humans do it by sitting just outside the trigger to close the elevator does, waiting for a cue (a specific part of the dialog for that chamber), and then stepping inside when they hear it - The best way to cleanly line that up is to line yourself up on the edge like that and then walk forward at the right moment - Burger chooses to just continue to stare down the shaft, but you could conceivably look in any direction you want as long as you get inside at the right time, and in reality keeping the camera down is just the lazy/easy choice. The cycle time on that elevator check is such that, on average, you save about two seconds with a proper ele fade compared to getting in at a roughly random time (which is what you'd get from getting in ASAP) - That's not a lot in a game where we still see much larger timesaves like Toast Skip just barely making it into the fullgame run (saves about 10 seconds if done first-try, first made it into a WR by Burger barely over a month ago), but since there's so many elevators in this game doing it right every time saves you about a minute, which is absolutely huge - This run is a very decisive WR right now, finishing the game at the same time msushi's third place run hits Wheatley with the third bomb, would move down to fourth place on the leaderboard below that and another run without ele fading, not counting Burger's previous runs. Since all it requires is a bit of memorization and is mechanically trivial, basically every serious speedrun will do it in some form or another.

[@Wapako]

Speedrun of game like this are the best, the characters speaks like everything is normal but you skip so many things lmao

[@SonicMaster519]

We might be able to get sub 55 but I think this is like just about it, wonderful job

[@Bortalis4053]

Congrats!

[@wolfcl0ck]

Congrats on breaking the minute barrier!

[@e4vn]

this is amazing. congratulations burger!!!

[@wolfboy248]

holy shit. Tears were shed

[@Atlas_Redux]

Big congratulations! Absolute massive achievement!

[@FriskyPotat0]

So deserved, amazing run man!

[@waty9287]

SUB 56!!!!! congratulations!!

[@blurrysgirl]

this made me a new person, the world has officially been changed, portal 2 has been completed in under 56 minutes. i remember when best time was still an 1:01:16 and its so fucking cool to see the record get this far. also LETSGOOOOO FOR ANOTHER :57 WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

[@Dremmy]

What bind do you use to get the text for bhop mode etc?

[@ivycomb]

this is epic, but ok now do a sub 55

[@da_ro69]

Wooooow this is so impresive...

[@N1ghtMaReBestplayerintheworld]

You are amazing bruh giant respect to you, may i ask why you stop sometimes at elevator missing 2-4 seconds?

[@MichaelHain.]

Easy answer: dialogue makes the ride longer if there is too much remaining or from certain dialogue

[@N1ghtMaReBestplayerintheworld]

@@MichaelHain.oh got it thanks bro:)

[@io_omegarth2315]

sol deserved my boy, that was incredible

[@XeZrunner]

gratulálok! :D

[@GLUBSCHI]

Wow this chell person is really good at bending the laws of reality to her advantage

[@ibuprofen-noodles]

OMG well done!!!

[@RadioActiV_]

really nice to see this game still being ran - doing the portal community well bro

[@juliusss34]

Amazing wr

[@ahkim3]

congrats!

[@morgan3392]

This was all thanks to dustyhobo_ at 18:43. Never forgor.

[@gemavids]

just stumbled across this in my recommended, holy shit congrats. almost a minute faster than previous wr

[@PandaDasKissen]

only 14 seconds

[@kiloonline]

decent run good job burger fourty

[@tofity5244]

Basszus nagyon durván nyomod GG ;)

[@freakymundo]

This is ridiculous. Congrats!

[@bluelemon243]

Why does the super reportal setup in 3 gels is so much more complicated compare to the one in pit fling ?

[@baroogfish5678]

burger is on fire 🔥

[@John15GD-xe8fz]

9:05 is crazy😭

[@PanMan47]

Congrats! You made history

[@PepijnWulteputte]

congrats burger!

[@RuthlessDarknes5]

Wow the insult to glados threw at 9:05

[@rennocsrednalf1763]

im curious as to why you position yourself a certain way on some of te elevators and not others, and what the positioning is for

[@rennocsrednalf1763]

also is killing cameras for fun or is there a reason lol

[@Hyebri]

I think he's waiting to enter at a specific time so the level ends faster. For cameras I think sometimes they are used to jumps, already forgot if he used any in this video.

[@purp.squared]

cameras are used to activate the end dialogue faster

[@beanbag8020]

I always clench up when someone attempts Toast in a full run

[@TAKV_gaming]

Well this is epic. Congrats!

[@TopCarrot]

I am positively ASTOUNDED

[@hcgamer9354]

blud really thought with portals

[@6bI4apa]

In Burger40 we believe

[@Kingbee6421]

I’m new to Portal 2 speedrun, why are they invincible to turrets? (Ex: 16:16). And why are they sometimes waiting on the elevator door? (Ex: 16:34)

[@angelinamckeown9909]

I think their inmune to the turrets because of the “Betsrunner” thing I might have spelt that wrong

[@Kingbee6421]

@@angelinamckeown9909 what is the Betsrunner? (or how it’s called)

[@purp.squared]

⁠@@Kingbee6421"betsrighter" is where he stands on a clipboard in wakeup, so he enters the incinerator early, and he gets invincibillity

[@Kingbee6421]

@@purp.squared ohhh I see, I thought it was some kind of modded speerdun variation (so you don’t have to worry about dying)

[@JeremyMallek]

Chell must have been a ninja before she ended up in aperture

[@Zyper_Sebxr]

GG Burgy! Such an achievement!!!!

[@protaties]

Will you go back to Mel after this?

[@korjezilla]

We eat the burgers now

[@100mvvari6]

how are people still getting faster in this game, even after all these years kudos

[@Datamal]

Wow, 55 seconds!

[@aciidz]

legendary run by legendary gamer, gg

[@golddust1337]

that's why he's the goat

[@hominusprogramming]

I always wanted a "glados pov" type of video where chell is "used" by a speedrunner. I can only thing that it's going to crash her by the absurdity of the actions....

[@MattTheElstiq]

congrats on the huge milestone

[@rzuffik_]

This video have not changed my life

[@JeremyMallek]

At 42:55 a robot went through the door from the coop areas I didn't know that happened

[@tix7278]

Holy shit what an achievement, congrats!!

[@raxo1337]

holy moly congrats!

[@pr0j3ct97]

just came from a video about toast skip lol, congrats dude

[@Lekroy1]

Pure legend

[@VarunGupta3009]

Congrats! 🎉

[@carloscosta7422]

That was epic

[@farkasmarton3474]

I watched this video like 7 times already, this is mesmerizing, insane achievement

[@aestronom1920]

we're barack

[@thomaswallay3025]

History was made

[@indexsensei]

GG on the first 55

[@vexfcstudios6929]

Yooo! Congrats dude!

[@StreamwaveProduction]

love this. great ambiance

[@BastienStudio]

The fact that IndexSensei got it right at 45:50 in the comments is mind blowing

[@V4ker]

Sub 56 => 55 minutes. First sub 56 => 57 seconds. Calculated

[@indexsensei]

lol

[@BastienStudio]

@@indexsensei The legend himself

[@iolaireeagle]

bro... the message above it is me guessing it down to within 5 ms. show me some respect

[@BastienStudio]

@@iolaireeagle you have my respect buddy, I wouldn’t have guessed it correctly in any way

[@nostalgiaholic4874]

im lucky enough to play the portal games for the first time in the last month and im hooked. I bought all the half life games to and have never played em

[@purp.squared]

half life 2 is so good i cant reccomend ot enough

[@Esteban-bx6ym]

GG Huge milestone im speechless

[@pedrolizardo7704]

19:34 looks like glados says "yeah i'm hearing it", probably replying when whitley anounces that he's speaking in an accent she can't hear lol

[@Marshimized]

it's her starting the line, "the irony is you were almost at the last test"

[@gmdFrame]

Finally, an English-speaking person who doesn't think English is hard. I swear, I watched video about interesting facts about English language and it would've been fine if the video creator didn't talk about "how much English is hard to non-english people to learn". Thats so annoying.

[@Amoeby]

Depends on the native language of a person who's learning English, no?

[@waterlessmelon1750]

Massive achievement, congratulations goat

[@TeePeeWee]

57 yet again!

[@lonepiruns7369]

Makes me so happy when I check back once a year to see another minute after another drop in this game. Growing up speedrunning this and seeing the same old legends run it is awesome. Congrats (Credit to Burger40)

[@infamoussatanic7839]

Why do he stand at the elevator and look down? N wait to go in?

[@logato5946]

crazy how this game has come down to a few seconds might waste a world record run

[@leglesslegolegolas]

ggs :>

[@MajesticjjEdits]

so good

[@the1barbarian781]

Amazing