How would I get the latest world records among any game on the site. A sort of "Most recent world records" list so to say.

I know I can get the world records for every categories for a single game using for example: https://www.speedrun.com/api/v1/games/n268nk6p/records?top=1 (All first place records for the game Half-Life which has ID=n268nk6p)

But I would need to get the for every game, and brute forcing this by sending API requests for every game in a loop (1000+ games) is probably against fair practice of using the API, so I am wondering if there is a more elegant way?

I have been lurking here for a while, but so far I am only playing it causally myself.

I made a patch/mod to the game to hopefully make speedrunning easier. I am calling it the Unofficial Patch 2.1 for now, and you can play it here: https://randomdude4.github.io/UniversalPaperclips/

You can find more information here: https://github.com/RandomDude4/UniversalPaperclips (where you can also download the game to play it locally)

The essential improvements are:

• No change to the game mechanics so all times are compatible with Patch 2
• Replaced ads in the top right corner with an in-game-timer (IGT)
• The IGT in the top corner is clickable and gives possibility to reset all progress and restart the game
• The IGT (and all internal calculations) now only starts when you first press a button
• Added decimals to the printed IGT after completing milestones/game (the game always used 0.01 s internally, but it never displayed it)
• Added dark-mode to be easier on the eyes.
• Removed display resolution restrictions so you can play it on any device.

What do you all think, could something like this be useful for speedrunning?

I am interested in following the speedrunning standings in many different games. Sometimes I become interested in a new game when I read about some recent new world record with new tricks etc.

Right now it is not possible to find which games have recently had a new world record in any category.

It would be very helpful if you could sort the game list by shortest-to-longest time since the top time/world record was updated in any if its categories.

Even better would be the possibility to only sort based on specific categories (Any%, etc.) and/or combined with popularity of the game. E.g. removing games with less than 10 runs or similar so that obscure games are not shown.

If this functionality already exists I would be interested in knowing how to use it. If it does not exist I think it would be a good addition to the site.