I used to casually speed run Portal 2 with friends and for a small Twitch audience of three or four viewers a lot and I decided I want to try going for mega fast times (since all of mine w/o the tricks speedrunners use were around two hours). Any tricks that every speedrunner should know that'd help me? Thanks in advance!
If you haven't already, take a look at Znernicus's tutorial series on youtube. It goes through routes chapter by chapter. There are a few chambers that have new routes, but for just starting out it's super helpful.
Also, not sure how much you've gotten into speedrunning Portal 2 yet, but bunnyhopping is pretty much necessary for movement. The best way to get better at it is to just bite the bullet and practice. Invictus has a good tutorial on how it works.
Those are the most important things I can think of right now.
SAR version 1.14.2 just dropped, which improves the speedrun timer HUD (sar_sr_hud), ghost sync countdowns, and more. You can find the full release notes on the SAR github, and as always you have 1 week to update.
We're also clarifying the ruling of sar_hud_precision for Least Portals. In all other