08/27/2026
It's true! Speedrunning uses deep game knowledge, frame-perfect inputs, and exploiting code loopholes (glitches, physics tricks) to finish games absurdly fast, turning games into systems to be reverse-engineered, often involving math in routing (like the Traveling Salesman Problem), physics manipulation (vector math, collisions), and timing to skip content or break progression, revealing unexpected discoveries within developer-set rules, says.