Speedrun Legends: Match the Skip/Glitch to the Game

From zips and OoBs to plate clips and bunnyhops, match the famous strat to the game. This quiz leans into speedrun culture—movement tech, routing, resets, and glorious jank.

Question 1

Movement exploits are the soul of many records. When engines compute position from velocity with rounding quirks, the right guard-cancel or animation swap can spike speed into absurd values. Communities study frame windows, camera states, and equip swaps until physics blink. Zips are dazzling but fickle: powerful in Any% races, risky in marathons where one miss costs minutes.

Which game’s runs famously feature a ‘zip’—a frame-tight setup that hyper-accelerates the player so they flash through space and pop past enormous chunks of the map?

📚 Interesting Fact

‘Zip’ styles usually rely on deterministic setups: stand on a seam, aim the camera, buffer inputs. Determinism is why they’re learnable, even if the success window is tiny.

💡 Pro Tip

Ask: does the community celebrate frame-perfect speed spikes and map-wide leaps? If yes, you’re in modern action-RPG territory with crunchy physics.