When I crossed the void between reality and the maniacal combined dreams of Narcissa Wright and Ryan Lockwood

Everybody's reality changes when they tune into Ryan Lockwood's stream. He is actually one of the first speedrunners that inspired me to run games. His passion is both hilarious and inspiring. Dude is a legend.

Paraxade0's run of Metroid Prime 3, followed by a 4 hour run of Twilight Princess (idk by who).

Almost 2 years ago. Didn't care that much back then, but when I tried it it was awesome and here we are now.

Around a year ago by watching videos of some players doing the speedruns of the main scenario of Resident Evil 4 and Separate Ways ;)

I've been watching speedruns since 2007. Only started doing my own last year, though.

From my SDA account- Registered:2007-03-01 12:48:18 pm

And I knew about the site before making an account before that.

Also only started doigg them recently.

Back in 2005, I played Warcraft 3 campaign everydays for hours during holidays. I didn't knew but I introduced myself to the speedrun. I really start to speedrun a year ago though. :x

I stumbled across Speedruns on Youtube back when SDA was a thing. I think it was a speedrun of a sonic game. Probably sonic 3. And I was absolutely stunned at how fast he was doing everything. I wasn't really interested to the point where I would go out of my way to watch them. I just watched them when I was curious to see how fast one of my favorite games could be beat. I think I was 12 or 13 then. A while ago.

Dark Souls speedruns on Youtube.

The earliest I specifically can recall knowing about speedruns was about 2006. I stumbled upon the Morrowind speedrun on SDA and wanted to copy how it beat the game so fast. Unfortunately the shop keeper inventories weren't the same between Xbox and PC so it didn't work. I'm fairly certain I knew sometime before that but never gave it much thought. I started gaining actual interest in about 2013.

Almost 4 years ago I discovered speed running at SDA when I got bored and Googled "video game world records" I found speed runs for the games I grew up with.

speedrun is one word

I think I first casually heard it when someone beat the mario bros record at the time, although I didn't really realize there was a community until Twitch started up.

justin.tv/siglemic

Without knowing it, I speedran THPS on the N64 back in 2008 and 2009. Then, at some point, I found a few ad hoc speedruns of favorite games online, still with no idea how widespread and all-inclusive the hobby was in terms of the gaming "repertoire." It wasn't until right after SGDQ 2014 that I learned, if the game exists, there are probably speedruns. I toyed around with Paper Mario and Pokemon Puzzle League, but couldn't record my runs. In October 2015, I started speedrunning Out There Somewhere, and it's been my primary mode of gaming ever since!