( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( January 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unreliable citations may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by looking for better, more reliable sources. Some of this section's listed sources may not be reliable. Speedruns are sometimes showcased at marathon events, which are gaming conventions that feature multiple people performing speedruns in a variety of games. Videos and livestreams of speedruns are shared via the internet on media sites such as YouTube and Twitch. Racing between two or more speedrunners is also a popular form of competition.
Many online communities develop around speedrunning specific games community leaderboard rankings for individual games form the primary competitive metric for speedrunning.
Tool-assisted speedrunning is a sub-category of speedrunning that uses emulation software to slow the game down and create a precisely controlled sequence of inputs. Speedrunning often involves following planned routes, which may incorporate sequence breaking and can exploit glitches that allow sections to be skipped or completed more quickly than intended. Speedrunning is the act of playing a video game, or section of a video game, with the goal of completing it as fast as possible. For other uses, see Speedrun (disambiguation).
