Cuphead Current World Record Speedrun in 27:33.47 | Any% - V1.1.5 - Regular Difficulty
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Published 2023-12-05
After spending around 2,200 hours playing Cuphead with likely 1,500 of those hours being on specifically this category, after 7 months on this specific grind spent doing tons of practice and strategy hunting, losing run after run to bad luck or often easy to make mistakes, all I wanted was a 27:39 to quit this category and somehow instead my efforts were rewarded with a run better than what I even had hoped for, one 6 seconds better than my end goal!
I couldn't be happier with this time and the quality of this run, starting off with the fastest Isle 1 of all time by around 3 seconds and actually maintaining the community best pace of all time on every individual split past that outside of Grim. Devil as well cooperated at the end and gave me a solid pattern to let me close out this insane run.
I have nothing more at this time that I feel I still need to give to the progression of this categories record and so I'll be retiring from it for the far foreseeable future. I do hope to make some kind of advanced tutorial to share my knowledge of the game with people in hopes it helps them on their own Cuphead speedrunning journeys.
Cuphead Speedrunning is very near and dear to my heart, something that has been a catalyst for me to really get into more speedrunning and its many great communities.
I've made a lot of friends through this and had some awesome opportunities and even made some personal growth through it all. I couldn't be more thankful towards this little hobby of trying to go fast in random games and I couldn't be more thankful towards Cuphead and its community for really being the main gateway for me to really get seriously involved in all of this.
Thank you to everyone that watched me on this journey or just to you all watching this run now, and I do hope you enjoy it!
I'll likely do more Cuphead speedrunning things at some point (maybe even all flags in the near future!).
If you're interested in that or other speedrunning/fun things I'll be messing around with in the future you could consider following my Twitch or subscribing to my YouTube for more of this content if you want, either way, thank you and have a good one :D
Watch live at - www.twitch.tv/grondious
All Comments (21)
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I'm glad that the "bad ending" is not considered a valid completion of the game anymore. It was so stupid that people were speedrunning to reach the game over instead of the ending
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summoning salt give this guy a video
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King Dice: "man wtf didnt i just let you out half an hour ago"
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After watching tomatoanus's vid on this category, I can definitively say I understand how star skip works to save you .96 seconds.
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Just so absurdly fast. It's truly astonishing to see how much this time has been pushed down.
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This is another speedrun that has the potential to stand the test of time, massive congratulations grondius.
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GG!!! This is literally one of the craziest runs of all time! And again: Can’t stop making World Records! Also 4 Star Skips in a run: Hilda Berg, Wally Warbles, Sally Stageplay and King Dice.
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I'm glad to be watching this grind for so long, this is gonna be my favorite speedrun for a while. Absolutely astonishing, congrats!!
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I'm seeing this run just now, and it's just incredible. Props to you Grondious :D
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What a crazy run, congrats dude!
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The juiciest run ever… congrats man! Love watching you runs this game. It’s because of you I’ve started to speed run this game ands it’s given me a lot of enjoyment. Nowhere near your me level of gameplay but I have fun.
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Just in case anyone isn't aware, since this isn't mentioned in the video Every time the scoreboard comes up after a boss, the runner will attempt Star Skip, which is when you press A on the exact frame the stars start being counted, this will skip the slow animation saving roughly 0.9 seconds. Most runners get star skip about 1/3rd of the time, with a full run usually having about 6-7 successful star skips.
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Huge GG's on this milestone of a run! You've probably inspired so many others to try speedrunning this game, including me and my friends, I only have you to thank.
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It’s been a pleasure watching you grind, man. Gl with whatever you do next! Massive GG’s ❤
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Absolutely nuts run. Congrats, what a grind!!
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So sad I couldn’t see this live but holy crap what an insane run. So glad you got to achieve this, you totally deserve it 🎉
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Bro you killed it. So so happy you got this run. I don't have any friends that play cuphead so watching your videos has made me feel in itself love the game more, I bid you farewell and look forward to your going future as I will 100% be following! GG 👊👊👊
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this is so crazy impressive, I've been playing cuphead for a while now and it's taken me over 10 hours just to finally beat isle 1, this is so insane, congrats!
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I'm super happy for you Grond. Insane run, GG!
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Yo GG Grond, you deserved this after grinding for days straight. This is truly the time for 1.1. Tbh, I don't think I would've gotten sub 11 in DLC if it wasn't for you, because I almost quit last minute, but then I remembered your capabilitiy to grind for your goals, and then I eventually achieved my 10:58. You are now crowned Mr. 1-1-5.
