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I have a weird taste in games. I also enjoy speedrunning. Thus, I have lots of personal experience speedrunning multiple games that nobody else has ever run. I am going to give you my advice for creating your own speedruns for a game without any runs on the leaderboard. If the game you want to speedrun does not currently have any speedruns, the majority of the process is going to be up to you! However, I'm going to help guide you along. If you would like to learn how to start speedrunning in general, you may want to instead read How to Start Speedrunning: A Beginner's Guide. First off, I want to provide you with the short of it, because the best way to do something is to "Just do!" If you spend too much time thinking about how to do something, you might feel overburdened and give up....

Checking out the leaderboards of the game you're speedrunning, or about to speedrun, you may find that you need to create a new category. There are many variables to speedrunning a new category and getting it accepted on the leaderboards, so there is not a one-size-fits-all solution. However, as someone who has created a new category on the leaderboards for The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX, I can provide you with the best advice I can give. If you are instead looking for how to start a speedrun of a game that does not have any categories at all, you're probably more interested in checking out this article: How to Start Speedrunning a Game Which Has No Runs - Creating a New Speedrun. First off, let me tell you... getting a new category on the leaderboards was not easy. Things ...

So you want to start speedrunning, but you don't know which game to start with. Nearly everyone who speedruns had to, at some point, ask themselves this one question: "Which game should I speedrun first?". To help you along, consider this a helpful and insightful guide for choosing the game which is right for you to start your speedrunning journey. Your first speedrun should be a game that you enjoy playing, have access to, and feel comfortable playing. Beginner speedruns to consider are Super Meat Boy, Super Mario Bros., and Strider for the NES. Let's break that down! How To Pick Your First Speedrun Choose a game you enjoy Pick a style you enjoy (side-scroll, 2D, 3D, shooters) Decide PC or a console you feel comfortable with Consider if your accessibility to the game ...