Hello, I created my account today, and I'm really interested in speedrunning. I have some games that I would love to perform in. Its amazing how players can beat the game with such skill as quickly as possible, and I decided to try it for myself. But it's harder than it looks. Any tips would be great! Thanks.

I'd say giving tips depends on which games or genres you're about to speedrun. But one thing's clear. You'll need to practice a lot if you want to optimize menus, jumps, etc.

I planned to speedrun some shooters(specifically the GTA Series). I haven't thought about other genres, but may get to that in the future.

Ok, then I'd say you can start it on two ways. You can either try to make a unoptimized route by yourself first to get to know the game even better, or you can watch a already routed speedrun of it, replay and learn it and decide then if you want to use that route as it is or if you want to change things.

If you want to route it out yourself first I'd say make a playthrough and note all the needed informations that can get you back on track if you get a blackout. Also make notes about things that you want to happen at specific moments. In an RPG that would be Boss XYZ at Level xx. For GTA that would be something like Reach spot XYZ at time xx as an example. This could make it easier for you to learn a game. It's a lot of work, but in the end you won't need that anymore because you remembered it completely.

If you don't want to learn the game by always running it from start to the finish line make different savefiles so that you can load them and learn the specific spot. One thing should be clear it needs to be a run equal save. So it would be good if it's a save of an actual run or if it would be a save of the routing.

Be patient. Speedrunning looks awesome and it is awesome but before you are getting really nice times you'll have to spend some time. It's like everything else someone wants to become good at. So even if your times are bad at the start, don't throw it away. Just stay on track.

Best regards, Jyntax

Thank you guys very much.. I'll upload an any% run once I learn the game more.

I dont know if anybody has said this or not because im too tired and lazy to read what they said but... My advice is to only run games that you think you wont get bored of and that are fun for you. Also, if you want to improve your time/times on a game/games i would suggest asking other people who run the game/games for advice on how to improve. And the last piece of advice i have for you is to just have fun. Don't stress yourself out if you don't get a really good time, and also if you want to go for world records for a certain game/category you have to realize that you might have to start and restart a run for the same game 100+ times before you get a good run depending on the game.

Thats all of the advice i have for you. Good luck my friend.