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What is low% speedrun?

A low% speedrun is a, sometimes, highly technical category that focuses on completing a game with the absolute minimum number of items, upgrades, or abilities possible, rather than just the fastest time. While any% aims for speed, low% prioritizes the lowest percentage of completion, often requiring precise tricks or glitches to skip essential items. YouTube +4
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What does any% mean in speedrun?

An any% speedrun means beating a video game as fast as possible, with zero restrictions on completion percentage, allowing all glitches, exploits, and skips to reach the end credits or final screen. It's the most common and often shortest speedrun category, focused solely on finishing the game's primary objective (winning) using any means available, contrasting with categories like 100% (complete everything) or Glitchless (no bugs).
 
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What are any% speed runs?

You seen, before a major glitch, Any% is just running the game "as intended" along with minor glitches and tricks to speed it up. And people invest a lot of time in optimizing their Any% times. They become attached to their category and their runs.
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What is the any% speedrun category?

Any% is a category of speedrun that completes the game as quickly as possible. 100% completes the game while collecting all of the stuff.
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What does 100% mean in speedrunning?

A 100% speedrun is a category where players race to complete every single objective, collect all items, and achieve full game completion as fast as possible, unlike "Any%" runs which just aim for the fastest ending. This often involves finishing all side quests, unlocking all achievements, finding all collectibles, and fully exploring the game world, with rules varying by game.
 
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The Insanity of Low% Speedruns

What is any% vs low% speedrun?

Any%, which involves getting to the end as fast as possible with no qualifier, 100%, which requires full completion of a game. This may entail obtaining all items or may use some other metric. Low%, the opposite of 100%, which requires the player to beat the game while completing the minimum amount possible.
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Why is any% called any%?

Any% is usually defined as completing the game as fast as possible without having to collect a certain item or complete a certain quest.
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What's the fastest speedrun ever?

The "fastest speedrun" depends on the game, but records include fractions of a second (Microsoft Minesweeper easy mode in 1 second, Clue guessing in 55ms), extremely short runs like Sonic XS (under 9 seconds glitching) or Getting Over It (under a minute), and famously short classic runs like Super Mario Bros. (around 4:54) or Super Mario 64 (around 6:16), with popular titles like Minecraft having records just over 7 minutes for the popular Random Seed Glitchless category. 
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How important is luck in speedrunning?

Also, some games have randomly-generated elements that must go a particular way for getting a world record to be possible. So, luck is another thing that is sometimes necessary.
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How old is speedrun 4?

on October 20, 2014. The main objective of the game is to speed run through different maps and race against the timer. Each level has its own map, and as you advance, they get more difficult.
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What is the #1 video game in the world?

While definitions vary (sales vs. players), Minecraft is generally considered the #1 best-selling video game ever, with over 350 million copies sold, while Tetris is a close contender depending on the platform, and free-to-play games like Fortnite dominate player counts and revenue. 
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Do speed runners get paid?

Yes, speedrunners can get paid, but it's usually through content creation (streaming/donations/ads), sponsorships, or prize money from events, with top runners earning a living while most rely on supplementary income or other jobs, often combining streaming with other work to make it financially viable.
 
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What does low% mean in speedruns?

If you start out running the game you can also grab stuff like powder or bluemail or something to make things faster/easier. In low% you skip everything thats not needed to clear the game. Asmo___deus. • 7y ago. Low% is an attempt to beat the game with the lowest percentage possible, and then they try to do it fast.
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What is any% gaming?

any% (plural not attested) (video games, speedrunning) A category in speedrunning which pertains to the goal of a game's mere completion, i.e. getting to the main concluding goal as quickly as possible, regardless of how much is unlocked or what techniques are used.
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What does any% glitchless mean?

Any% means that no matter how you do it you must Win the game. Any% Glitchless means that you must beat the game without Glitching, but skipping is allowed. 100% means that you must beat the game without Skips nor Glitches.
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How long is a 1000 Minecraft day?

1000 Minecraft days is about 333.3 hours, or roughly 13.9 real-world days, because one full Minecraft day-night cycle takes 20 real-life minutes (1000 days * 20 minutes/day = 20,000 minutes; 20,000 minutes / 60 minutes/hour = 333.3 hours; 333.3 hours / 24 hours/day = 13.9 days). 
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Is tic tac toe a skill or luck?

Tic-tac-toe is a game of pure skill, not luck, because it's a "solved game" with perfect information, meaning optimal play from both sides always leads to a draw, with the only way to win being if the opponent makes a mistake. While a very basic skill set is needed, it's so minimal that the game becomes a draw quickly, showcasing skill in avoiding blunders rather than chance.
 
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What is the most speedrun game ever?

The most speedrun game of all time is Super Mario 64 (Nintendo, 1996). This classic platformer has 14,009 speedruns logged on Speedrun.com as of 19 March 2020.
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What is the top 1 hardest game?

There's no single "hardest game," as difficulty is subjective, but top contenders often include brutal precision platformers like Super Meat Boy, punishing action RPGs such as Sekiro or Dark Souls, rhythm-demanding shooters like Cuphead or *Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved, and notorious classics like Ninja Gaiden Black or Ghosts 'n Goblins, with some flash games like *The World's Hardest Game also cited for unfair difficulty.
 
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What is a 100% speedrun?

A 100% speedrun is a category where players race to complete every single objective, collect all items, and achieve full game completion as fast as possible, unlike "Any%" runs which just aim for the fastest ending. This often involves finishing all side quests, unlocking all achievements, finding all collectibles, and fully exploring the game world, with rules varying by game.
 
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Is "anyone" a single word?

Yes, "anyone" is one word when it means "any person at all" or "anybody," but "any one" (two words) refers to "any single one" from a group and often precedes "of," like in "any one of these". So, use one word for a general person and two words when selecting a single item from a set. 
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Why do people say anywho?

Research says that the origin of the word "Anywho" is a little unclear, but it is a simple *variant of the word "anyhow". "Anywho" is used when a person wants to change the subject, return to a previous subject, or move on to the most interesting subject.
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Is it correct to say "anyone"?

"Anyone" feels more formal than "anybody," especially in business or academic writing. Both are used in questions, offers, refusals, and negative sentences. In almost every situation, either word is correct.
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