Is there such thing as an "All Glitches" Speedrun?

I enjoy watching videos about speedruns, but I'm not super knowledgeable on everything so I don't know if this exists or not.

I just wanna know if there are kinds of speedruns where the goal is to perform every single glitch in a game before beating it.

2 Answers

Not exactly.

Although every game can have their own distinct speedrun categories, there is normally no "All glitches" run.

I can think of couple of problems with that category:

1. You would have to upkeep a list that contains every glitch in the game. Every time a new glitch is found, you would need to add it to the list.
2. Some glitches may end the game so it wouldn't be possible to perform any glitches after that.

One could always create such a category.

For example Any% is a category where you complete a game any means necessary. This means that players will most likely use any glitches that improve their time to beat the game. The game is completed when the credits roll.

Source:Explanation of speedrunning - Reddit.com

In practice, if it exists and is not just Any%, the Low% category often involves a lot of glitch exploitation, and for some games, it is a reasonable approximation of "all glitches" because it will usually contain most or all of the "interesting" glitches.

Here is a specific example of this phenomenon in Super Mario 64:

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This video is a tool-assisted speedrun of the star "Stomp on the Thwomp" in Tick-Tock Clock, pressing the A button only twice (it is not currently known whether the star can be completed with fewer A presses). By my estimate, it contains at least all of the following glitches, just to get one star:

• Chuckya (RNG) manipulation
• Object (Goomba) cloning
• HOLP manipulation
• HOLP preservation (pause-buffered hitstun)
• More cloning (coins etc.)
• Star dance clip
• Cog (RNG) manipulation
• Hyperspeed grinding
• Pendulum and clock hand (RNG) manipulation
• Pedro spot
• Vertical speed conservation

(Read the description on YouTube for a detailed account of exactly what the speedrun is doing, and consult Ukikipedia for more information if desired.)

This isn't all the glitches in Super Mario 64, by any means, but it is a good selection of interesting glitches, and most of the other well-known glitches are used elsewhere in the A-button challenge, with the exception of those that specifically depend on pressing the A button, such as the infamous backwards long-jump. Another example of a Low% run that has lots of interesting glitches is Super Mario Odyssey's minimum captures route.

(The Goomba cloning is not actually optimal, so it could be removed from the run, but other objects are still cloned at various points.)