more people should run Star Guard - https://www.speedrun.com/starguard

There are an overwhelming number of free games. Here are some with already established leaderboards:

Any web game is probably free - https://www.speedrun.com/games#platform=Web Tower of Heaven - https://www.speedrun.com/tohvn Within a Deep Forest - https://www.speedrun.com/wadf Maldita Castilla - https://www.speedrun.com/maldita

Plenty more; have fun

Just play games, and if there's one you like enough to play again, try to do it faster. Keep improving, time yourself, and then you're speedrunning.

Have fun.

A couple free game suggestions:

Tower of Heaven Within a Deep Forest

I've been meaning to give Trampoline Terror a good attempt at routing. I think I'll make that my next game.

Welcome to the community. :)

My guess would be the Character filter is actually defaulting to something other than Any (Penguin maybe), but that's reflected on the page itself. Any way to check that?