I don't think so. I know of halfcoordinated, he is a speedrunner that runs using one hand and he is on the same leaderboards as everyone else.
Ive played through the game one handed too, so I know the pain of it - major props to you. But the speedruns you do of it will end up on the same boards as everyone else.
I'm not sure what the other one hand guy runs but I'm guessing it's a nes, SNES or Sega game. Believe it or not but most of those games are easier with one hand than two. You hold the d pad in one direction and only have one or 2 buttons to focus on for the most part. With a game like cuphead you're constantly moving the joyStick in all directions and using 6 buttons. Because I run with one hand it's almost impossible to do the weapon switch glitch I'm lots of areas and I have to use a completely different strategy to compensate. But I guess if you guys feel running the game with one hand is no more difficult than 2 then I guess I'll have to respect that.
Halfcoordinated actually runs all new games that requires a lot of movement. From the top of my head I can remember he runs Vanquish, Nier: Automata, Transformers: Devastation and Momodora. Look him up, he's an awesome runner.
If it's a problem with weapon swap glitch, you can run Current Patch, it's a category that doesn't use WSG.
TooPlaya, I've beaten the game with one hand also (and a couple other members of our community) and although it is harder, we aren't going to create a whole new set of categories to cater to one person. You can run the game yourself with any category without a leaderboard, believe it or not
I wasn't looking for my own personal category, all I wanted was to see how I stack up against others playing with one hand. If you don't want to that's totally fine but what doesn't make sense to me is if you and others have had the ambition to play the entire game one handed as a challenge, why not record the times of said challenge and let others compete? Like maybe just 1 category like fastest to 200%?
The only reason I even mentioned a separate category was because when I was watching GDQ they had someone run super Mario bros one handed and they stated a couple times throughout the run that one handed is a legitimate category. I was under the impression these speedrun records were associated with them.
I understand your confusion; the issue with having an entire category (even if it's just one category), is that it would be redundant, i.e no one but you would run it (presumably). Not many people would bother to learn the entire game one handed, for most this is a struggle and they wouldn't see the point in running it. The difference between cuphead and mario is the length of the run; compare a 5 minute run (at best) to a 25 minute run (at best). The stakes are much higher and you'd need incredible patience to do it, let alone speedrun it.
Final answer is no. Feel free to run the category though and let us know of your times!
