Racers, I made some changes to ratings: 1) Your first few races in a category, you will gain/lose more rating than before. This effect diminishes after doing more races. 2) When you finish close to someone, you will lose less rating than before. Thanks for racing, hope you like these changes!

Hello friends I have spent many hours improving the search functionality and now we have a good search functionality :) i even made a cute little gif to show you, please watch it and go to my website to use my search

I've added some sort and filter options on the live page. You can now filter if someone is streaming, currently on a run, and currently on PB pace. You can sort by things like run length, name, game, or how far a runner is ahead of their PB. Have fun watching!

FIVE THOUSAND races have been finished on therun. On to 10k!!

Another cool feature of the new frontpage: view which races are upcoming, ongoing or finished. Start a race right from the home page. Coming soon!

New home page is starting to take shape. One of the panels on the home page shows a summary of your runs for the current month and week.

Your 2025 Speedrun Recap is ready! We compiled some of your stats into one cool big page. How many golds did you get? How many PB's? You reset way too much, didn't you? Go check it out now, and come share your personalized 2025 graphic! Link in replies 👇

Race moderators and creators can now set the time for other users in the races. Makes it easier to manage races!

Hi friends, I have resumed working on the website. It is now possible to disqualify a player from the race if they are AFK or if they submitted an incorrect time. This can be done by the creator of the race, or by race admins. Thanks!

i played sm64 at the nintendo museum in kyoto and failed every single trick i tried 😎

Picked up some cool stuff in Japan and won a ditto at the crane games lfg

I haven't been able to work on therun much in the last few months. I'm in Japan at the moment for a month. When I get back, I will resume work on the site. Thanks!

SPD2025 comes to a close, what a crazy week! We raised so much money for St. Judes! (15,789.00 a new record!) Thank you to everyone who participated this year, came back, and helped us tackle cancer one glitch at a time! Here's to next year!

WE LOVE SPEEDTEMBER

Happy Week #45! It's a quick one this time, but some wild records have been broken in the last seven days. Minecraft (Random Seed), Skies of Arcadia: Legends (Any%) and Getting Over It (Glitchless) all stood for well over a year. Check them out! 🔗 goldsplit.substack.c...

Happy Week #39! In this week's major story, Mario has a completely new ACE up his sleeve! 🃏 We're also treated to a SummoningSalt history video, Twitch delaying the Vodpocalypse, a scientific literature review, event news, and more! 🔗 goldsplit.substack.c...

Happy Week #38! This week's headlines include SCIENCE and MAGIC, and I'm not even trying to bait clicks. But even if you're into neither, there's plenty more on offer: a grand finale, a new glitch, tournaments, event news and much more! 🔗 goldsplit.substack.c...

I shared a new update on Patreon -- but everyone can read it! It's a little preview of what you get if you support us :) It talks about what we've been working on this year, and what we will be working on now. Admin panel, Open Source news, Events, new front page!! Link below!!!

Hi speedrun friends and community leaders! I've noticed that discovering speedrun events is very difficult. There's no good way to search for events with appropriate filters. I decided to build a tool for this. I already have a working prototype and I think it can offer a lot of value. 👇

wtf was that silksong reveal lol

So this Aethermancer tournament we hosted finished with the top 5 within 13 seconds. This game is pure rng. HOW???? also i got 6th :D

Had a good time at BSG!!!

WE STARTED A SPEEDRUN CATEGORY FOR THE AETHERMANCER DEMO BTW LMAO if you enter the Next Fest Speedrun Competition and get the top run we're literally putting a statue dedicated to you in the full game top 5 also get the game for free

So sleep deprived me made this half assed python script with the help of the other SRDC regulars that lets you check all of your submitted runs for Twitch highlights and then offers you to download those to your harddrive all at once and possible bugs. github.com/Matse007/Spe...

By now you've probably already seen this, but it's important enough to keep sharing: Back up your Twitch Highlights to a hard drive or to Youtube ASAP! If you know any runs from others that need to be archived, please do so. The library will burn, let's take out the books first!

Proud to announce we've partered up with @moiraigames.bsky.social and @offbrand.games to host a Speedrun Competition for their newest game: Aethermancer! First place gets an actual ingame statue dedicated to them. Honestly that's so sick I can't get over how sick that is It starts February 24th!

After @tharixer.bsky.social's 30-person Spyro race, there's now a 34 (!!!) person Mario Party 8 race going on, hosted by Jhay. AND IT'S CHAOS FOLLOW IT HERE: therun.gg/races/8iko

WHAT JUST HAPPENED WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

GDQ is looking for commentators to help during our English restream of @speedons.fr! Commentators will be compensated for their time, and maximum of two commentators per run will be selected. Applications close Feb. 11, 11:59PM EST Learn more and apply here: forms.gle/4CBYTNFMvQnm...

Wtf you guys raced TEN THOUSAND hours already? addicts

Turns out the idea of seasonal leaderboards is really popular... INTERESTING 🤔

Name one thing the speedrunning community is desperately missing GO

Quite a few new followers since yesterday. Welcome, speedrun friends! It's insane to have to say this, but we encourage hating nazis here!!! Go follow and check in with your friends here, especially if they get targeted by orange man. They might need it. TRANS RIGHTS

Happy Week #27! I hope everyone’s recovering well from AGDQ—whether from traveling, post-event blues, or otherwise! This week, we’re recapping the event, before we do a SWITCH TO (😉) more news, event updates, and new TAS movies. 🔗 goldsplit.substack.c...

New console new opportunity to be the first runner of a mainline game and become a little dot in a summoningsalt video 5 years from now

Here's some research. I looked at how long it took for people to get a PB after joining our Patreon. - For patrons, 88% got a PB within 2 weeks. - For non-patrons: 0%. NONE of them got a PB within 2 weeks of supporting. even made a graph to prove it GO TO patreon.com/therungg FOR FREE PB QUICK!!!

✨ INTRODUCING: Therun Story Mode! ✨ Story Mode is a highly-customizable Twitch Chat Bot that will comment on your live run and your run history! Add some spice to your chat, and give your viewers insight into your run! The feature is now available for EVERYONE through the topbar of the site! ❤️

If you just got home from AGDQ -- welcome home! The event was great, I enjoyed it a lot. If you missed it, we built a Speedrun Recap. It's a really cool way to do a little review of your 2024! You can see yours by going to therun.gg/recap. Let us know what you think!

Around 900 runners have gotten their recap. More stats? Most Playtime: @hypnoshark.bsky.social, Jhay, @kally.bsky.social Most Games Ran: @biksel.bsky.social, CosmicMario64YT, Hypnoshark (again!) Most First Split Resets: @flamingfishsticks.bsky.social, @abney317.com, @crazytonedog.bsky.social

✨Announcing Speedrun Recap! ✨ After you got your Spotify, Twitch, Reddit, Duolingo🦉 and even a Chess♟️ wrapped, here is your coolest (and most important) Recap of 2024! Head over to therun.gg/recap to see how you did in 2024, download your image, and share! Read on for more info! 👇

Every year, my good friend Aki hosts Speedtember, her own speedrunning marathon. In the last 2 years, she raised over $15k (!!!) for St. Jude's. This year, submissions are open for everyone. If you would like to participate in a super unique online marathon, please do so! It will be awesome! 👇

Quick reminder that I created a starter pack for speedrun events, sites, tools and anything that's not actual runners. Easy follow to keep up with everything happening in speedrun event land!

babe are you ok you haven't done runs all year

the 602 destroyed my site and my confidence lmao

What's some cool data I can put in your Speedrun Wrapped? Be creative!

Had a very fun interview with the PACE Pals this week. Go watch!!!

If you're in the Story Mode Beta program, you can now enable/disable specific story elements, and also change the cooldown on them. This allows you to customize the bot much better!

Yeah I speedrun feature requests so what

Therun is completely free, and without ads, for everyone. This is only possible because of the support of these amazing people. If you want to join them, and help support our little speedrun stats site, you can do so here: therun.gg/patron THANKS!!!!

ok ok ok guys stop begging i'll do a speedrun wrapped in january get ready to get roasted by this thing