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.

You can follow individual games to know when a world record is had. You can also follow wrbot on twitter.

It's a pretty useless bit of info though, especially knowing "time since last wr". Especially useless since you can set your run to being done at any date you wish.

For anyone interested, to get notifications when WR are made for games you follow you can change the settings here: https://www.speedrun.com/USERNAME/settings/notifications

Lastly I do not agree that it is useless information to be able to sort/filter games after time since a WR was set (if it was a problem that users can self report the time, then make it time since WR was uploaded to the site). For example I might not follow some really old classic games, because new records are very rarely set and I do not play them myself. However once in a while a new glitches and tricks are found which spurs many speedrunners to start run the game again. It would be nice to be able to find such rare events without having to follow 100+ games that might sometime in the future yield a amazing new WR attempts.

If anyone has any other suggestions for filtering/sorting that would help users discover interesting new WRs for non-popular games I would be happy to hear them out.

Personally I do not use twitter, hence that solution does not work for me.

Sounds like you should use twitter. Or wait for the discord bot to come out if it hasn't already. After that, maybe come up with your own solution to your problem.

I'm not sure how often it gets updated now, but a user had done this spreadsheet up for longest standing world records, if you go to the bottom you would find then newest ones, or you can search by game https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H2D4_ZdS8T2jiMGXRRVnUaWC20TLKl_r6CSFOMp8Nuk/edit?usp=sharing

I try to keep that spreadsheet ^ up to date as much as I can but since I currently have to manually run the program to update it, it's not guaranteed to be fully up to date all the time.

@ShikenNuggets Your spreadsheet list recent records for a game I run, but also has records listed for two game versions where there is no time I can find when looking in the leaderboard. How is that possible ?

@Alayan Could you send me a message on Discord (or Twitter or Twitch or whatever) about this? I'm not sure what you're referring to and I don't want to necro-clutter this thread with irrelevant information.