
Speedrunning also allows for creating different categories that go beyond the established ones. There’s not just swimming, there’s the 100m freestyle, the 200m backstroke, and so on.

There are several different categories of speedrunning, like events in the Olympics.

There are entire communities online dedicated to watching, discussing, and practicing speedrunning. World records are won and lost all the time, and many of the record-breaking runs can be viewed on Twitch or other streaming platforms. There are players who commit themselves to speedrun many games and some players who specialize in only one.

It can take a matter of minutes or several hours. Simply put: speedrunning is playing a section of a game, or the game in its entirety, as quickly as possible.
