I personally don't speedrun much I'm more of a glitch/trick hunter.

When I do speedrun it's because I think a game with limits is boring...

If a games limits what you can do then you break those limit and create a whole new style of gameplay for that game almost. But only you can do this, the games isn't gonna hand out unintentional mechanics, you need to find them.

I think i'm running because of statistics. I love numbers : graphs, times... :) But i also need to like the game to speedrun it, of course ! ^^

Its fun, and I love routing.

Also I play fighting games, and the mindset and mentality you need for fighting games and speedrunning are very similar.

Personnaly, i speedrun mostly because i like the games i take care of. For Initial D, it's mostly because of that.

For Boktai, that's a different story, i love the boktai games, but at the same time the boktai community has been dead for decades now, and i'd like that to change. I'm hoping it will, so i try to route the game correclty and not make it too complicated at the same time, in hope peoples join.

But yeah, at the same time, for me, games were always a part of the culture, and i think that's why i'm that interested in watching mostly, i like what i see, the games, the communities (even if sometimes they're... well, shit), and most of all, the passion.

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I do it for fun. The games I speedrun is games I already love and wouldn't mind spending more time on. I think of it as a challenge more than anything.

The feeling after getting a new PB is amazing, competition is fun, the movement in my main speedgame is beautiful, it kills time, the speedrunning community is great and interacting with people in it is great. :3

I started speedrunning a month ago and I choose a game I like and enjoy playing, so on first it is the fun of it. My current other reason for speedrunning this game is, I wanna see how far I can go and where I hit my limits to a point that I can't progress any further and is the end of the line. I'm still very inconsistent and I wanna train it this way to be a consistent runner of that game and have well thought way of beating it.

Because i like to beat my PB. It is sometimes so amazing. If you make PB or not. That´s the reason why i do speedrunning.

I don't really know why i speedrun, i like it but i never found any game that made me wanting to get better at running it, i continue to search every day, if anyone have ideas of games that are original to run : http://www.twitch.tv/janorio/profile (mp me). I also like routing and finding glitches, that's why i don't like that much speedrunning a game that is already optimized at his better potential.

I'm a bit of a masochist.

I started speedrunning more or less because of the way I play games and because I enjoy watching speedruns. I already tried to skip parts of different games when I still was a child around 10 years old. Usually that I tried to jump across distances you're not ment to, or tried different other things. ^^

I just enjoy going fast, it's pretty fun.

Another reason to play through games again and again and do something better or different in them.

I got into speedrunning because I wanted to play some of my fav nostalgic games again, but I wanted to put a twist on them. Fair to say, the glitches you can do in the old (Gen I/II) Pokemon games definitely fulfilled that twist wish.

It's fun for me, to Speedrun Games and see, how fast you can possible beat a Game, and then think back at the time, where you played said games normally and just laugh about it :)

originally I started out as a F-zero X time attacker, because the game is awsome and I wanted to learn those sick strats. Then I got into GX as well and from there into speedrunning games.

I started speedrunning on Portal, because I could b-hop to go very fast, and it was fun. Then I speedrunned Mass Effect because I love the game so hard. Right now, I'm speedrunning Toren because the game is relatively short and it's very enjoyable to watch and play !

I love routing, and the community is very friendly and chill. The competitive aspect really brings back a lot of good memories of Pokemon before the community got all e-sports toxic.

If speedrunning ever gets that bad, I'm posting a challenge run for "chug a bottle of draino".

...remember the SRL category for "2L of coke" on a funnier note? That was so fucking stupid.

I run because of the joy and sense of accomplishment that comes with seeing my name on the leaderboards.