3, 2, 1, go. This week, I look at two groups who compete at insane levels of performance: Olympians and video game speedrunners.
The Speed Demos Archive, a community database of speedrunning videos and resources - http://speeddemosarchive.com/
COMPET-N, the first site dedicated to speedrunning videos/demos for DOOM - http://www.doom.com.hr/index.php?page=compet-n_news
“The Rabbit Run,” an entertaining segmented speedrun of Quake - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtZxDMa-5eM
Cosmo’s any-percent speedrun of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (22m 38s) at AGDQ 2013 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M7IINwTFVw
Siglemic’s 120-star speedrun of Super Mario 64 in 1h 47m 48s at AGDQ 2013 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGu6YXTnbeU
A clearly impossible run of F-Zero GX’s story mode by CGN - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvrepvisxA0
The Super Mario World / PONG exploit at AGDQ 2014 - http://youtu.be/RhgSSmBwNf8?t=45m30s
MilesSMB’s guide to the item loss skip in Metroid Prime - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIH76tIwlDo