Due to SpykeSquirt bringing this to my attention, until further notice, all runs will be on normal difficulty due to it being much faster than going on any other difficulty, and all of our current runs are in normal. I will be speaking with the other moderators to figure this one out. I will post any updates under here.

Difficulties were added! For now, you can only do solo difficulties, which might be changed later.

i think it should just be a variable so that way we don’t have 7 IL categories and people can choose to sort them if they want

The main problem with that is that there would be one less reason to speedrun. Imagine getting the world record, only for it to say 3rd or 2nd. Me and Cain thought about that, but it would just be more confusing.

difficulty isn't that important tho

it's less about skill and more about who has the better stuff (yes, ik speedruns of this game are like that anyway but there really isn't much of a difference)

my point is normal is the fastest difficulty so it's the best for speedrunning. tons of other games do the same thing, e.g. minecraft, terraria, ror2. i don't see a need to separate whole categories. if we make it a variable, it will still say 1st place if you sort it by difficulty.

People want a challenge, plus it was requested from multiple people including me. Nobody else had any objections. Plus, two of the games you put were sandbox games and have a different type of difficulty. Not many people would search up by difficulty because they wouldn't care. We are giving people who do difficulty more publicity. Plus, the difficulties are such a huge difference with having way stronger enemies, elites for certain stages, and in challenge mode, a timer. There is such a big difference in difficulties that we should either have to say 'don't do anything outside of normal' or let them have a choice. Due to the internet being the internet, I think that they will like having at least some choice on the difficulty. People would keep asking for difficulties, so for less confusion, I added them. Also notice that the difficulties were added just for the level runs, and not the full game runs.

I agree with adding difficulty speedruns its not just for time its also for a challenge. Like if you wanna play just for time go for normal mode.

I think its always nice to have a choice for extra challenge and it doesn't do any harm to the speedruns. Theres nothing wrong with adding new difficulty.

Like for example, people might want to say that they want to try to beat a level on hard mode, they want to be seen on the front page of the leaderboard, and if it was a variable system, it couldn't happen.

i don't have any problem for separating difficulties, i just think the current way it's done is stupid obviously i would prefer no separation but i'm fine with it being there if it's organized better what sandbox games did i add??

I agree with zir0nic, the way it is organized is horrible... The point about giving people who do difficulty more publicity is thrown out of the window because challenge and master difficulties are hidden as you have to scroll to see them. I myself, who visits this page almost weekly, didn't know there were challenge and master difficulty until today! Now take a second and think about new people, they come to this page littered with uneven empty boxes and useless categories that sit there and do nothing but take space and make the front page look ugly. It discourages people to speed run even more than not having a choice.

like zir0nic said difficulty isn't that important. it does not need to be on the front page. It can however be made as a variable, it will still say 1st place if you sort it by difficulty like games such as, Minecraft, Terraria among others.

Let's just do it this way. If this comment gets 4 likes, then we will change it to the system you guys want. This will run for 2 weeks, and we can decide from there. If we get 2-3 likes, we will remove difficulties all together Respond for any objections.

There might be an issue adding variables, when adding variables, it makes all other runs hidden. If anyone knows how to fix this, please respond.

click “set all runs to default” the reason they disappear is because they aren’t initially assigned a value, so that assigns them all you might have to move some manually tho

Ok, I have added the variable way as I didn't completely understand what you meant. Sorry for all of the arguments and confusion.