How to improve at speedrunning

How to become a better speedrunner:

Mentality

	Starts and ends with mentality

	Do as many favors to ourselves as we can
		Pick your favorite game
		Pick a game you won't mind ruining casually

Study hard

	Study everyone who has a better time than you
		The very top times
		The next rung of the ladder

	Learning tricks
		Observe how the better players handle the tricks
		Check out community resources
		Youtube is your friend

	There's something to be gained from watching as many people as possible
		People don't play the same way until the optimal level
			Super Mario Bros

Practice

	The 3 P's of becoming an excellent speedrunner
		Practice
		Practice
		Practice

	Runs =/= Practice

	Practice every single day
		>30 minutes, at least 6 days a week
		Improve every single day

	There's a difference between practice and efficient practice
		Practice smarter, not harder

	Practice never guarantees success in runs
		If you're failing things in runs that you nailed in practice, keep practicing and put
		the trick in context

Mental Walls

	AT LEAST 50% of speedrunning is mental

	Inevitably, we all hit mental walls
		1st step to overcoming is accepting that every mistake is your responsibility
		Stop focusing on what "should" be capable of; your pb is your skill bar
			THAT BEING SAID your goal is to IMPROVE, not to get a time

	[[[If you've done it once, you can do it again and better]]]

	THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GOD RUN

	Accept failure

	Understand your body under stress
		Focus on breathing
		Focus on relaxing your shoulders/body
		Hydrate

	You need to find your own solution

Adaptability

	You will make mistakes

	The ability to identify mistakes and correct them between runs is an incredibly powerful tool
		"What mistakes am I making today" - we're not perfect
		"What can I do to avoid them the next time"

	This can only happen when muscle memory from hours and hours of practice meets game knowledge
	from hours of studying meets patience and acceptance of failure

	Understanding risk/reward
		Start with low risk/low reward
		Work towards low risk/medium reward
		Medium risk/medium reward
		Medium risk/high reward
		High risk/high reward
		High risk/medium reward
		High risk/low reward

Moving On

	Don't dwell on your failures
	Don't dwell on your successes
	Practice the day after you PB
	Practice the day after you WR
	Nindiddeh's 1:14 in SMS any%/Pydoyks sub 20 OoT any%

Mentality is everything