i know a few skips in a few levels and stuffs but how do people genuinely get so good at speedrunning this game?

You just have to play a lot man. I would recommend sticking with any% or nomo until you're comfortable enough with all the commonly used movement tech that you're able to move on to p% and also try to play levels you genuinely enjoy to keep yourself motivated. As well as this don't hesitate to ask in the ultrakill or newblood servers speedrun chat for tips on things you're struggling with since there are a ton of community members out there who would be happy to help you out!

(Stolen from here and originally written by @RealGuy_ )

It really depends on what you want to run.

In general, learning the individual levels first then stringing them together is a great way to practice multilevel runs like full game. If you want to get better at a certain level, my best advice is to run the level by yourself without any help so that you have a feel for it, then compare your run to someone who has a similar time on the leaderboard. Try your best to copy their strats or at least keep up with what they're doing. You'll eventually get faster, and will aim for a higher standard as a result.

If you're looking at the leaderboards and are concerned with outdated strats, you can sort by the latest major patch as of this post (-- EA (4/15/24) --) in the filters. Note that major patches do not account for hotfixes, so this can still let some outdated strats through (e.g. 5-4), but generally the runs you see are done on the latest version.

As for actual guides, there are a few that I've found really helpful.

For Any%, a lot of people link this video below because most of the routes here are great for people who are just starting out. Just note that since it's an old video, some of the rocket clips are no longer possible on the current version of the game (e.g. 1-2, 2-2). You will just have to do the levels inbounds for that.

A similar guide was also made for the newest layer, shown here:

For P%, there aren't any full game guides out there since it's an extremely long category, but there have been a few layer route overviews. Here they are:

One last thing: you are able to change the version of your game to an older one. This allows you to access faster clips which are mostly used for Any% individual levels. I personally recommend against doing this since it makes the levels less competitive and boring to run, but if you really really want to, there's a guide on how to do that too.

Hopefully this helped give you a direction on where to start. Good luck with your runs! :D

Also adding from myself you can watch Herb's and Sheba's core mechanics guides (weapon tech, movement tech, etc). For specific ILL there're guides for 1-4, 7-S/7-4, 5-1 Any%, 6-2 P% and probably a few more that I forgor (Also watch Darknova's documentaries if you haven't already they're like reaaaaaally good)

this is perfect thanks man, i have been trrying for about 2 weeks now on specific levels (1-4, 1-3, 4-1, 5-2, etc) and i must say ive gotten pretty consistent runs on them (proudest one being 9.119s on 4-1) and for the speedrunning part i usually try to go for any% since thats the most fun for me to do, i will definetly check out all the links youve suggested and thanks for you time! :)

i know that they respond to u put if u want anything dm me on discord لي فترة ماشفت عربي يبي يسوي سبيدرن التراكيل

you should join the discord server, people in the speedrun channel are very helpful