Entertainment has traditionally been the reason for the creation of speedruns, as the phenomenon was originally devised by enthusiasts who began comparing each others' playing skills via movies exchanged over the Internet, while verifiability stems from the necessity to provide evidence that one's playthrough went by the typical or game-specific speedrun rules and thus counts as a valid attempt to beat the record. Commonly, speedruns are recorded on either an analog media such as a video tape (predominantly when games on consoles are concerned), or as a digital file, by the people (“players”) who make them, for entertainment or verifiability purposes. The term, a compound of the words speed and run (as in “running” through a game, referring to the playing of a game) is only used in the context of games that were not originally or primarily designed with fast completion in mind (one generally does not “speedrun” a racing game in those cases the game's standard setting for achieving and recording fast times is called a time attack or time trial mode).

Information on its significance in the leadĪ speedrun ( IPA: /ˈspiːdˌɹʌn/) is a play-through, or recording thereof, of a computer- or video game performed with the intent of completing it as quickly as possible, optionally under certain prerequisites, mainly for the purposes of entertainment and competition.

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