Because this is site is called "Speedrun.com", not "Highscore.com". If you want to compete for score, check out websites such as 2048masters.

Death% was one of the categories that was removed a long time ago. As with all the small tile categories, it is also very dumb and takes very little skill. Just mash buttons as fast as you can. It was also probably the hardest category to verify. For reference, people were submitting times of as low as 0.01 second.

With regards to the NKRO keyboard, a "Keyboard" category must, by definition, allow NKRO runs. Only way around that is to create a "Glitchless" category.

Adding on to what Frikkinfriks14 said, the reason why those categories were removed is because it's stupid. You just mash buttons and whoever can do that the fastest basically wins. No actual skill involved. It's also a pain in the butt for the moderators. It is extremely difficult to differentiate between legitimate and illegitimate runs with tiles this small. (For reference, the record for the 1024 tile was around 3 seconds.)

For a bigger challenge, you should try doing runs for the 4096,8192,16384,32768 tiles.

The thing about the 2048 community is that we'll embrace you no matter how bad you are. You just have to be honest about it. You cannot cheat, because we will catch you each and every time. It is good of you to come forward now and admit you were cheating, and we'll still allow you to submit runs as long as they're legit, but just note that you've highly damaged your chances of getting a top spot on the leaderboard in the future.

I have to say, though, you did a pretty good job at faking your run. I thought you were using some kind of macro to cheat but you actually played it yourself and sped it up. I was not expecting that. That's some pretty good editing skill right there.

Hi, sorry for the late reply.

We are still not convinced of your run - it just looks too much like an AI and is way too consistent. Also, the frame rate is bad. Maybe this is just me, I haven't cleared this up with the other moderators, but it just looks too slow to be NKRO. And like Tennisman89 said there is no way you would be able to do this without NKRO. Also, you claim to be using a "camera", but your video seems to be a screen recording.

If you are telling the truth, we are going to look into this some more. This is a pretty big deal. Safe to say no one's gonna beat this any time soon. We do not want a potential cheater to take the top spot on the leaderboard but at the same time we don't want all the potential work you've done to go to waste. You have to join our Discord man. The evidence you have given is interesting but it is just not enough yet. You can create an account just for our Discord until we've cleared this up and then just never use it again.

Hello from a moderator of the game.

If this is true, this is big news for the community. Congratulations on your world record!! Unfortunately, we cannot verify it quite yet - we get fake runs very often, and this would be no exception, but if you truly want a spot on our leaderboard, I highly recommend that you join our Discord server. You can stream yourself practicing or show us some of your high scores, but what we would really like is for you to share some of your tips and tricks with us so we can get better at the game. My personal best time is 1:28, and the fastest non-NKRO run I have ever seen is 1:00. To get a sub-30 second run, seemingly without NKRO, is beyond insane... it's absolutely incredible. It is almost too good to be true. Anyway, I hope you join our Discord server.