Speedrunning leaderboard and community website for game records, verified runs, rules, categories, moderators, resources, forums, videos, streams, and public speedrunning data
Speedrun.com
Speedrun.com is a speedrunning leaderboard and community website where players submit runs, compare times, follow game categories, read rules, watch videos, and organize around completing games as fast as possible.
What Speedrun.com is
Speedrun.com is a website for speedrunning leaderboards and game communities. Visit Speedrun.com to browse games, categories, verified runs, player profiles, rules, videos, streams, forums, news, and resources built around finishing games as quickly as possible. The site turns speedrunning from scattered forum posts and video links into structured records. A game page can hold categories, routes, platform rules, moderator decisions, submitted videos, timing notes, and rankings in one place.
How leaderboards work
A leaderboard on Speedrun.com is usually organized by game, category, and rules. Categories can separate any percent runs, full-completion runs, glitchless routes, platform differences, level runs, or community-specific goals. Runners submit evidence, often a video link, along with timing and platform details. Moderators for that game review submissions against the rules before accepted runs appear on the leaderboard.
Community moderation
Speedrun.com depends heavily on community moderation. Each game community can define categories, write rules, verify runs, reject invalid submissions, and maintain resources for new runners. That local control is important because speedrunning rules are not universal. A trick that is allowed in one category may be banned in another, and a timing method that works for one game may be unsuitable for a different engine or platform.
Videos, streams, and proof
Speedrunning records are tied to evidence. A run usually needs a video or stream archive so moderators and viewers can inspect timing, route choices, glitches, loading screens, hardware behavior, and category rules. This makes Speedrun.com both a database and a viewing layer. People use it to find world records, but also to learn routes, compare strategies, and discover runners through linked videos and livestreams.
Public data and tools
Speedrun.com provides a public API for game, run, user, platform, region, and series data. That API lets developers build trackers, dashboards, bots, research tools, overlays, and archives around speedrunning records. The API matters because leaderboard data is more useful when it can move beyond one website. Community tools can surface new world records, compare category histories, or help runners follow games they care about.
Strengths and tradeoffs
The site's strength is centralization. A runner can find many communities in one place, and a viewer can compare records without hunting through separate forums, spreadsheets, and video descriptions. The tradeoff is that centralization also creates dependence. If a game community disagrees with platform policy, moderation tools, ads, data access, or site reliability, it may still rely on Speedrun.com because its records and audience are already there.
Why it matters
Speedrun.com matters because speedrunning is both competitive play and community documentation. The site preserves routes, records, rule debates, player histories, and evidence for thousands of games. For older games, niche games, and active competitive scenes, those records can become part of the cultural memory of how people explored a game beyond its intended path.