The Celeste Speedrun That Does Nothing for 472 Hours

Most Celeste speedruns are done in under two hours, but there's one particular run that takes a very, very long time.
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Music used (in order):
Dustforce OST - 9-bit Expedition
Baba Is You OST - Wall Is Stop
Celeste Farewell OST - Beyond the Heart
FTL: Faster Than Light OST - Colonial Explore
Portal 2 OST - Robot Waiting Room #3
OMORI OST - White Surf Style 6
Ducktales (NES) - The Moon Theme
Thanks to fishmcmuffins, amberlovesarchie, ruyunata and buhbai for helping with the video creation process.
This video is not an actual speedrun world record, nor a speedrun tutorial. This video is a showcase of a speedrun strategy that goes in-depth to the various tricks, glitches and bugs that make the strategy possible.

[@squiddler7731]

Imagine a run being so outrageously long that someone finds an entirely new skip well after it starts and the runner can just incorporate it on the spot.

[@toumabyakuya]

Happened in Zelda as well, if I bad don't remember.

[@bakedroyal]

true 100% in undertale

[@jajasking9652]

​@@toumabyakuyathe Twilight princess staring for a rupe for over 17 hours incident:

[@falloutphan7341]

​@@bakedroyalreal bakedroyal sighting in the comments section (not clickbait)

[@asdefree]

Now imagine a run being so outrageously long that people discover a simple trick to use intead of waiting a long time

[@everything-narrative]

Link staring at a rupee for 17 hours 🤝Madeline waiting around for 118 hours 🤝 The Knight killing bees for 45 hours 🤝 Mario pushing against a wall for 23 hours

[@Zanza05]

Pretty sure the hollow knight speedrun you’re referring to kills birds, not bees

[@ImaginaryIndividual]

@@Zanza05 An old version of the run killed birds, but the new and improved version massacres bees instead.

[@comfeytimid1207]

not 23 hours, about 6 actually

[@NatalieExists]

🤝 Paper Peach baking a cake for 4.5 years

[@everything-narrative]

@@NatalieExists Thank you for understanding my vibe instead of trying to correct me.

[@SemiHypercube]

Don't you just love it when you stand still for 118 hours in order to become nearly immortal

[@RichConnerGMN]

*⅔ immortal

[@bevweb]

​@@RichConnerGMNhi did you quit celeste yet :3

[@RichConnerGMN]

@@bevweb ...no?

[@bakedroyal]

hi semi

[@amedicabg]

@@RichConnerGMNwhat about now?

[@rejectionmagnnet2112]

i love it when low% runs make you just sit around and do nothing for hours at a time

[@VulpineFox7]

Or worse, grind.

[@Ender_Onryo]

@@VulpineFox7 Hollow Knight Low% True Ending has entered the chat.

[@VulpineFox7]

@@Ender_Onryo indeed

[@ry6184]

@@Ender_Onryothat’s exactly what I thought of when I saw this vid, along with the link/rupees skip in twilight princess

[@RichConnerGMN]

i sit around and do nothing for hours at a time

[@FBombFitzgerald]

Link: I've been staring at Rupees all day! Madeline: Hold my beer.

[@xman9354]

Fun fact: Madeline uses alcohol as a coping mechanism

[@waffthewaffle]

@@xman9354thats not a fun fact 😭😭

[@chrisharl]

⁠​⁠@@waffthewaffle Unfun fact: Madeline uses alcohol as a coping mechanism!

[@legacytwilight]

​@@chrisharlthis is so funny and silly😊😊😊

[@NotTotally]

@@xman9354that sure was a fun fact

[@EuniverseCat]

Had a great time working with Sushi on this! If you have any questions about the run, I _might_ see it if you reply to this, but I'll definitely see it if you comment on the vid linked in the description!

[@juicepal]

I played this game a while back and it was by far the hardest platformer i played

[@bredbeanqueen2654]

I would like to formally apologise to your computer for making it sit running for so long, may its fans have a good rest

[@monkeyman55667]

As someone who dipped their toe into Celeste speedrunning, I’d be curious if this would have any applications in the minimum dashes category? Or if those rooms requiring dashes are mostly with dream blocks and not spinners

[@roofon]

euni my goat

[@cuberstache]

@@monkeyman55667 This definitely saves dozens of dashes for TAS but the minimum dashes category isn't really run by humans because many of the dash saves require multiple frame perfect inputs and subpixel precision

[@a-bombmori7393]

"You see, there's a floating point variable" *AHHHHHHHHHH*

[@angeldude101]

Ah. I see there is someone else in this comment section who shares my pain.

[@segadoeswhatnintendont]

Peach bakes a cake for an absurdly long time

[@egekahraman8985]

celeste speedrunners in 2020: spikes are a suggestion celeste speedrunners in 2023: what is a spike?

[@laurencebrown3822]

"What is a spike? Nothing more than a miserable little pile of pixels!" -- Madeline, probably

[@attmayMB]

I never thought a video about doing nothing would grab me, but Msushi pulled it off!

[@bensbrackets7494]

I see what you did there

[@FixTheWi-Fi]

ha, grab

[@lord_gucc2013]

It is truly an example suited for the museums so we may teach future generations about this

[@mineland8220]

They carried the video pacing well

[@lexicon_c]

there is another video about a low% speedrun and afking for hours

[@patientallison]

Reminds me of the Twilight Princess low% run where you stare at a rupee for 17 hours to glitch through a wall to avoid grabbing a key

[@RichConnerGMN]

nice pfp

[@manamaster6]

Speedrunners have made Link go through hells not even Ganon thought of.

[@pauliesnug]

hewwo fellow trans person :3

[@gummy2bear358]

i love it when devs make a mistake where animations dont loop and let you phase through walls

[@timothymclean]

The difference is, of course, scale. Instead of running the game overnight and while you're at work, you need to leave it running for almost five full days. Four times.

[@burningwindow_7435]

When I saw the title I was immediately like: “this either low% or 100%”

[@srn_ity]

and it was both!

[@makingnoises2327]

finally, a Celeste run that mirrors my own approach to mental health struggles

[@absolutehuman951]

Exactly!

[@elijahkeay3906]

As soon as you hear a timer based value that relies on a floating point you know the glitch is gonna involve several hundreds of hours waiting

[@906robot9]

This reminds me of Hollow Knights Low% True Ending run where you kill bees in the same room for 45 hours

[@onlysmiles4949]

Essence grind my beloved

[@VulpineFox7]

Me too.

[@Markeplier23]

Is there a video explaining this?

[@nadeen3157]

Do you have to actively kill them? Because staying at your controller that long sounds way harder than going afk for 3 weeks

[@906robot9]

@@nadeen3157 You can macro it but its less efficient than actually standing there killing them. The speedrunner Skurry has the wr I think and yea, they stood there for the full 46 hours just killing bees

[@m0n5a80]

I love how the rules eliminate the "half a-press" debacle outright by instead counting how many times you have to grab a wall.

[@ExplosivePine]

Half an a-press is not a debate, it's a notation. Just means you're holding an a press between uses

[@Snakebyte42]

@@ExplosivePine They said debacle, not debate.

[@ExplosivePine]

@@Snakebyte42 oh I'm so sorry. I guess that's what happens when you're browsing KZbin at 3am xD

[@RichConnerGMN]

don't worry, we still have it in minimum jumps! old site is 0.5 jump presses

[@ExplosivePine]

@@RichConnerGMN XD

[@Source28]

The limits of Low% categories are always hella interesting to watch, great video as always man 💙

[@Wookis]

when is 602 highlights dropping

[@Wookis]

(jk)

[@jacobestgaming]

plot twist: the glitch was intentional and it was just the developer's way of saying "you've been here for 118 hours. i'll help you get through this as best i can, but *please* take a break"

[@thezipcreator]

there's no way this could be intentional; unless they're being really smart with floating point imprecision

[@angeldude101]

Most likely an engine limitation or careless programming. There is no logical reason to store an integer number of frames in a float variable unless integer data types simply don't exist (like in JavaScript).

[@rainingnights1409]

Speedrunners are insane. Low percent speedrunners are beyond insanity.

[@detroityeet7048]

Doctor: You only have 16 grabs left to live Me:

[@a_pear]

Neat video thanks for covering it! The comment at the end "honestly I'm offended by the concept of doing this again" is the most hilarious thing I've ever heard by a WR holder.

[@MisterCofla]

So this is the reason why the latest TAS has achieved things never seen before Since that day, I wondered how they were managing to go through certain spikes that you would never think were possible

[@kenetic-nf8jq]

I feel bad for the speedrun moderators

[@perfbruh]

Imagine a speedrun moderator finds out that someone cheated this type of run he gon just leave it cause he ain't watching all that

[@alansmithee419]

6:23 "The community discovered that spikes don't actually do anything."

[@ScarletEmber64]

And I thought the 17 hour wait in Twilight Princess was long holy carp

[@KieranDavy]

The Mario 64 DS minimum b button TAS would theoretically take 20000 years!

[@axehead45]

@@KieranDavy Dude, ok pls elaborate

[@KieranDavy]

@@axehead45 look up Adeal’s TASes improvements using RIG and for a description of the technique, click on the video in the description. Yoshi can swallow an objects and every time this happens, the ID increases by 1 until it overflows after over 4 billion objects are eaten. Then, when the ID of the object is the same as this star, it can be eaten and the star is collected. This can take hundreds or sometimes thousands of years each time it is used and it is used each time the b button would otherwise have to be used to jump. However, it was made into its own category because of its power and the ridiculous amount of time required. Edited because the explanation was wrong + more detail

[@EaterOfGeese]

Hollow knight has you killing bees for 20-45 hours (manual or macro) to grind dream essence just to reduce completion percentage from 26% to 23% out of 112%, which isn't as crazy as celeste, but still, come on, those poor bees-

[@BenMarcWilliams]

I think my new favorite categories of speedrun are all the ones where the optimal strategy takes literal days.

[@runefaustblack]

The term "longplay" has been given new meaning.

[@TheAdvertisement]

Celeste is rare for me in that I followed the game from the start, not realizing at its release how popular it'd be for speedrunning. So as such, despite not being a speedrunner, I had the unique opportunity to follow how strats developed and encourage as a fan and even friend to some streamers in their efforts to complete their runs and find new strategies. Despite all that, I had _no_ idea this insane minimum grabs run was a thing. Thanks for informing it!

[@D3__]

Imagine if normal spikes would unload their hitbox too, but only after an integer overflow on time or so, requiring several months of waiting. Suddenly, traffic blocks with spikes that were required grabs become standable

[@dazcarrr]

floating point variables are the pot of greed of speedrunning videos at this point

[@segfault-berlin]

A lesson in "don't make everything a bloody float"

[@ViperhawkX]

Is it though? No normal player is ever going to leave the game running for 118 straight hours in order for the glitch to happen.

[@spaceowl5957]

@@ViperhawkX I never experienced a single bug playing Celeste and now I'm getting a lot of entertainment out of this video. So I don't mind the floats

[@legendgames128]

@@ViperhawkX It's a lesson for the programmer, in case they made a vital variable in an otherwise secure program a float, in which something like this could be exploited by hackers.

[@BlueSR]

OMG NEW MSUSHI LETSGO

[@Pyrodiac]

Didn't think I'd see Blue in the recent comment section but here I am.

[@jobot0114]

If only Sample had known about these strats when doing his Celeste run lol

[@neutralnarwhal8184]

My thoughts exactly Maybe he'll come back to it, lol

[@VulpineFox7]

Reminds me of Hollow Knight's Low% TE story a lot. Minimum something run. More stuff than just normal ending. Spending the majority of the run on one thing. Only one person did it once, then returned to it after a huge new discovery.

[@violettiaras]

Skurry is a blessing upon the world of ridiculous hk speedrun categories

[@i8chocolatecake995]

@@violettiaras realllllll

[@philipkostakis2814]

I feel like making/using a mod that increases the TimeActive variable should be fair game. It would definitely increase the amount of people willing to try the run.

[@vividescence]

Currently, I dont think it would be able to count under speedrun verification,however, given the fact that the run isnt exactly moderated, not a bad idea

[@philipkostakis2814]

@@vividescence That's what I mean, I feel that the moderation should allow that for this category. Maybe make the mod still affect the ingame timer. It won't be the first game. Crosscode speedruns for example permit a specific mod that allows you to set your fps to 60(I think) for specific skips.

[@stevethebarbarian9876]

Oh please. Speedrunning communities winge over skipping 30 minutes of unskippable cutscene at the start of a game, allowing a mod to skip 400 hours of pointless AFKing is out of the question.

[@GLUBSCHI]

@@stevethebarbarian9876 did a speedrun mod kill your parents or something

[@duane6386]

@@stevethebarbarian9876it depends. Portal 1 runners are allowed to skip the intro in the relaxation chamber

[@fuxy8347]

Thank you for giving this infamous category the attention it deserves!

[@olekkatan6614]

omg a real fux, can I pet?

[@fuxy8347]

@@olekkatan6614 only if I can eat your bread

[@alexismandelias]

Imagine if that float was a double and suddenly you have to wait for a year for this to happen.

[@ImaginaryIndividual]

I have no idea why they would use a float instead of a discrete integer type to store the active time, but I'm glad they did if it gives us this run lol.

[@SSM24_]

Because the variable is also used for a lot of visual stuff, and it has to account for different game speeds so they couldn't really make it a fixed integer amount.

[@angeldude101]

​@@SSM24_ Nanoseconds, kiddo. Just store the number of nanoseconds in a 64 bit integer. That should be good for half a millennium.

[@Jabberwacky]

subtitles on for the first second

[@alatreph]

Summoning Salt and now Msushi? Today is a brilliant day to be a speedrun enthusiast!

[@sarahspeedrun6419]

Mushi

[@cvdusey8025]

Agreed

[@therysnergamer]

this is basically doing part of a speedrun every 5 days lol. im imagining someone buying a whole new pc for this speedrun in particular while they practice during the 5 days of break, its so impractical but funny

[@abuffzucchini]

NEW MSUSHI VIDEO !!! annd it's about a celeste challenge run !!! banger video as always

[@MrGamerCaptain]

absolute insanity and dedication, props to the people who have this much persistene

[@melihkp5782]

love your videos msushi

[@emanwonkon2205]

At 6:31 theres FTL music. I immeadetely recognized it in the first second of hearing it, and you actually credited it in the description! Thank you allot, please play FTL for everyone reading this.

[@wolfsign9168]

low% always makes the funniest discoveries. Love the twist they bring to speed running. I wonder if these games should consider using a cheat or smth to skip time (and add it retroactively to the final time) so that the runs can be submitted more realistically (472 hours is daunting and gates the run off from ppl, i think the 17hr rupee isnt so bad as you can realistically do it in weekend but how many people are willing to wait 3 weeks?)

[@FixTheWi-Fi]

"Unless we find another game-breaking glitch" You mean _until_ , surely.

[@hailpza8811]

Really great title and video, keep up the good work

[@PressRToZeus]

damn those traffic blocks! insane dedication on doing this run though, god bless Euniverse cat

[@starsetknight]

Yoooo FTL music, that game is sick, also the kinda things some people do speedrunning is completely nuts. Great Video

[@elementgermanium]

1:20 “a grab press is a grab press, you can’t say it’s only a half” tj strikes again it seems

[@madlad255]

I was literally planning on starting this waiting game today, and then I saw this video in my feed LOL Good video, though! It's way better than the video I'm making on this topic

[@StormBurnX]

7:55 I LOVE when portal music starts up. You know it's an Msushi video when there's suddenly portal music. Such good vibes.

[@MaladyKayjo]

This just in: Trans Woman refuses to grab things while climbing a mountain, stands completely still for 472 hours to change the physics of reality so she can grab things less. “just because i’m on the emotional journey of self discovery doesn’t mean I have to get my hands dirty” more at 11

[@zackbuildit88]

Hot person activities frfr

[@soph7066]

msushi has slayed once again

[@mrtoast5987]

New Msushi video! 🎉

[@A-person-here.]

Celeste should be a proof of how determined humans are

[@rw5939]

YES your Celeste videos are so good

[@scroogledoogle3028]

I just so happened to be talking about this particular challenge yesterday for any%, very convenient to see coverage for 100% which I was curious about.

[@Cerisebruv]

HELL YEAH MSUSHI UPLOAD GOES HARD‼️‼️💥🙏

[@WIstm_]

happy to have another celeste related video

[@tapiopuranen88]

Speedrunners... always asking if they could, never wondering if they should.

[@YEWCHENGYINMoe]

"Just wait a obsenely long amount of time"

[@desmondruhling]

honestly this is the video that got me to get celeste.. and it's amazing. so thanks! :)

[@Lil_GSM]

HE'S BACK!!!!!

[@kyoyeou5899]

Him: Grab Jellyfish, Chapter 9 Me: Grab wat, I missed wat

[@sable7687]

eventually, madeline stopped thinking

[@OriAriel94]

it s a new msushi video about the game i am just finishing! what are the odds feeling blessed

[@NandrewNordrew]

Dude I just realize you used baba is you music and I respect that 🔥🔥

[@cvdusey8025]

It’s a great day to be an Msushi fan

[@AndreVHY]

This reminds me a lot of that Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess low% speedrun XD

[@sun2541]

Oh yeah that one where link stares at a Rupee for 17 hours

[@MBZ901]

@@sun2541 I thought of Lowest Percent as soon as I saw the tile xD

[@venator7392]

bro just started a computer science course in the mid of a celeste vid

[@ImTrash13]

i feel bad for the mods having to watch that run to make sure "its not cheated"

[@crow2596]

7:48 why does it feel like vsauce music was about to kick in at that pause?

[@BastiakaZerox]

really good quality video!

[@galactic800]

Celeste speedrunners are becoming just as insane as Trackmania Nations Forever speedrunners

[@rijaja]

It's always the floating points isn't it

[@mileserwin]

I love the use of the FTL sound track, super fun game, great soundtrack

[@undra133]

baba is you ost absolutely caught me offguard. made me smile:D

[@isaacpardue8323]

Baba is you music goes so well with celeste

[@usernaperson]

gotta love celeste speedrun content :D

[@GG_Nowa]

I love how silly some glitches sound but in practice help so much

[@FloNess1]

Reminds me of the twilight princess speedrun where you have to stand still to move slowly backwards through a gate because one frame of animation is missing so it stops one frame further back than it starts 😂

[@PorkShark]

Hollow Knight: "I have a 50 Hour Low% Speedrun" *Celeste: **_"Hold my beer"_*

[@myggmastaren3365]

6:58 I didn't know the stand "King Crimson" existed in real life, but here we are :)

[@demonhunterjj180]

Coyote frames is such a fun thing to call that.

[@drcgaming4195]

3:10 demodashing is officially recognised within the game now, made clear by the fact theres a keybind for it in the newer versions of the game

[@lopzinc]

You know, I already knew this, but I had to give it a watch

[@punnyperson4663]

Ngl, forgot Msushis channel existed, so time to binge watch what all I've missed

[@MarchMarauder]

After finally playing this game myself i can acknowledge how ridiculously difficult these movements are without even needing to try them myself, the speedrun community is insane

[@dukem8774]

Ah, the wonders of low% categories, if it will save you a single percent, jump, grab, coin, ect, even if it adds 100 hours to the run, it instantly invalidates all previous runs without it and REQUIRES you to use it.

[@nkkls]

my attention span has increased just for this video thanks msushi 👍

[@fellthekerl]

Euni Grabless and Msushi, best day ever

[@thepenguin9]

Oh man that ftl track is such nostalgia for me

[@nyaKona]

5:35 i jnust realized that this is the first time ive heard someone talk about speedruns with a girl speedruner instead of a boy speedruner. theres like so little girls speedrunning

[@RichConnerGMN]

nice pfp and well the celeste community does have a lot of trans women (euni included)

[@Imaproshaman7]

This is amazing!

[@DarkStarCoreX]

Spinner stun is so funny

[@BuIIetBiII]

I didn't know about the dead spinner glitch thing. Pretty fascinating! I hope you do more Celeste vids

[@ShadwDuck]

I like how they took samples video, and then cranked it up to 100

[@woomiiakarandomveemo5933]

ive always called the dash trigger skip oilskip (because madeline gets covered in oil and flies in the rain), really sad it hasnt really caught on

[@woomiiakarandomveemo5933]

(credit to tobyaaa for coming up with the name i think)

[@RichConnerGMN]

i still call it that

[@sanessetenally2207]

That one farewell bug: Celeste's Stairway Incident

[@usernaperson]

it used to be called oil skip, but sadly the name is lost to time 😢