Getting Over It's Biggest Barrier Was Finally Broken! 

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As the world record holder, I cannot thank you enough for giving our game an entire video. More than that, it is incredibly well made and accurate. I hope everyone enjoys this video and sees Getting Over It for what it can truly be :)

I remember when the fastest TAS was still more than a minute, but now a human did it in less? Absolutely insane.

Dudes really put in thousands of hours of work just so they can outrun Bennett Foddy's monologues

I feel like this cauldron guy's upper body strength deserves some of the credit for this run.

"speed runners never really got over it" was an absolute bar

I love how his video's are normally like "There was this massive breakthrough that lowered the record" while with this game it's just "Yeah, people got better at the game"

Me in school: “Why am i learning this? Ill never need this in real life!” Me as an adult: “of course ill watch how speedrunners perfected getting over it with mechanics”

as someone who's somewhat competent at the game, sub 1:50 pb. It was an incredible achievement to see the minute mark broken. It took me 400 hours to break the two-minute mark and i can confidently say the last minute takes at least 20 times longer than nothing to sub 2. The last second alone was months in the making for blast bolt, by far the most talented player within the community.

I watched a lot of the earlier TAS runs for this game and thought "man these are *stupid* fast, I didn't realise it was even possible to go this fast" Human players are now *faster* than those runs I was watching. What an incredible achievement, it's honestly mind blowing how much skill this takes

You represented our community and the game perfectly, and gave Blastbolt some of the recognition he deserves. I'm glad I got to assist in making it, and super happy with how the video turned out!

The most amazing thing about Karl is that he manages to explain everything so well, without compromising the entertainment. I haven't made any speedruns and watched only a few runs, but still I find myself enjoy these videos a lot and (thanks to Karl) I understand these amazing achievements and can only admire the people doing this. There're very few channels I like enough to watch every new video, and Karl Jobst is one of them.

I beat this game for the first time earlier this year, and after spending so much time grinding it out to beat it once... I suddenly found it a lot easier to get to the top a second time, and at third, then a fourth. It's amazing how quickly you adapt to the dumb controls without realizing it, and it's amazing we can push it so far to speedrun it this well!

Fun fact, every time you complete the game, the pot becomes a little more gold. All the clips with completely gold pots mean they have beaten the game 50+ times, although they likely have way more than 50 completions.

I just want to note that one of the tools that was instrumental in helping runners improve is anjo2's modpack. It allows you to spawn faster at the start of the game, which, in a game that only takes around 1 minute and 15 seconds to beat (and requires thousands of restarts), will save hours of time in the long run. You can even set up checkpoints that you can respawn from to practice a section. It also contains a built in timer (no livesplit needed!) so you can compare your splits to see how much you are improving by or falling short. I truly believe that the modpack is perhaps the biggest tool for improving at speedrunning GOI.

The run made me tear up. There's such an obvious beauty to it. The character is the equvalent of a disabled person with no legs, yet through mastery, Blastbolt has taught him to fly.

it's so interesting how unsettling it is to view the "swinging" vs "tapping" motion is after seeing it mastered

Now, the only goal is to break the next minute barrier. Negative length speedruns here we come!

Hey Karl, thanks for making this video on our favorite game, I'm glad you found the mechanics/techniques so interesting and managed to encapsulate them perfectly in this video. Our community is very appreciative of this coverage and we hope that we can push the boundaries even further! 🔨

As a degenerate who sold his soul for a month in order to achieve the golden pot, I can confirm, this record is beautiful

The best part about the game is the audio commentary by the creator of the game that plays as you progress in the game. It's so relaxing, almost like an ASMR, that I sometimes go back to listen to it here on RU-vid.

Nice to see Distortion 2 get some exposure. The man is a machine cracking open new games. Love having him in the background on twitch.

Bennett Foddy is a legend. The man deserves his game going viral. He also made QWOP.

It's very crazy because when you first play the game it usually takes hours and sometimes days to beat it on a first attempt but Congrats to these runners for lowering that time down to just a minute.

Amazing milestone by blastbolt after all these years, congratulations once again. It's really nice to see some recognition and hype around the game that generally get's dusted off as a bad game because the controls are designed to be intentionally difficult.

Doctor: You only have one minute left to live. Use it wisely. Speedrunners:

That was phenomenal. Watching the earlier wide angle motions and then seeing the quicker tapping motions, you realize just how much of a visceral connection your breath has to the movement of the character on screen.

I'll say it again. I'm not a speedrunner, but Karl still manages to speak to the gamer in me with these videos. I watch them all start to end, I don't even skip the sponsor segments.

13:30 I never knew how satisfying it would be to hear Karl say the word ‘Crumpet’

Guy is not only a legendary runner but also a great musician

glad to see this game getting recognition. blastbolts sub 1 has to be one of the biggest speedrunning milestones of all time.

As somebody with a 6 min pb in GOI, I can say that the crazy thing is that there are STILL improvements to be made! There were tiny mistakes in the WR run that I’ve seen faster in other runs, such as at the top of chimney, at the top of slide-skip, and at the end of snowballs. I don’t know if humans will ever get sub 50, but I can see sub 55 as a realistic goal over the years. Thank you Karl for making a video on GOI! It really is a fantastic speedrunning game. No RNG, short, and is all about skill. I always love coming back to it every now and then, and this seems like a great reason to do it again!

Karl, the way you and your channel handle this content confers a dignity and integrity to the entire enterprise that the mainstream has generally denied. It's cool to see.

"This run is trash" - Dist2, moments before world record.

great to see dist2 getting some love. an absolute beast of a generalist, just very good at videogames. the pace at which he picks up new games and strategies is as impressive as he is dedicated to grinding.

I'm proud to have beaten this game once. It took hours upon hours. Beating it under a minute is just absolutely mind-boggling god-tier skill and nothing else, given there's no glitches, major skips, or any other such "strategy" (in the typical sense) whatsoever involved. There's only a single "skip" the speedrunners all seem to take, which is one you don't need to be all that skilled for and is fairly obvious when you play the game. (If I remember correctly, I almost managed to pull it off myself a few times.) So this is just sheer movement skill and nothing else. Incredible. By the way, had to chuckle whenever you said the controls and movement are incredibly complex. Although I know what you mean, it's literally just moving the mouse which moves the hammer. There's nothing else to it. You don't press a single button in this game, you literally just move the mouse, and it's the hardest thing ever.

if karl's voice sounds weird because he has a cold, I wish him luck in getting over it

So happy to see you covering this record! Ive been playing the game on and off since release and have recently been running the game for a couple of months, my pb is 3:05 but I hope to one day get a sub 2 minute run. It makes me so happy to see you covering such a neich speedrun! Love your content dude! ❤

Karl got me blushing every time he calls me a legend

I love the small shoutouts you throw in for those who aren't necessarily the main character of the video but still very impactful in the scene :) good stuff.

Being a Getting Over It Speedrunner, i really appreciate the effort put into the video and ofcourse a huge congratulations to Blasbolt. I really know how difficult it is to grind for mere miliseconds to improve your pr and this record is a mere essence of what humans are capable of. Keep supporting us speedrunners 😃

Going from spinning to tapping is a real game changer! Thank you for making a video about this game!

Distortion2 is absolute legend. Love watching him. Absolutely insane Dark Souls speedrunner.

That was genuinely masterful. Blastbolt's run and this video. I knew GoI speedruns were insane but God damn... It's so true. Speedrunning this game is pure skill and technique. There are no skips, no workarounds, just pure skill and dedication. Congratulations to Blastboi for breaking this game by beating it under one minute and shoutouts to all the other GoI speedrunners! You guys are fucking awesome.

It definitely helps my interest, i didn't really understand the finer details of the appreciation of this game without this video, so kudos mate

I remember watching these speedruns a few years ago and seeing it fairly close to the 1:00 barrier with plenty of room to improve. I wondered then if anyone would ever do it. Im super stoked to hear that someone finally did. Absolutely beautiful run.

at the halfway mark in this video my forearm stated to cramp because my hand was being held in such a tight awkward position for so long watching these guys playing. didn't notice i was doing it because i was in a bit of a trance. that game is so freaking hard. i've never seen _any_ speed runs of it. played it, never beat it. did watch a couple streamers beat it in an average time. these guys are 🤯

This game is great. The commentary by Bennett is meant to be frustrating but I never felt that way about it. The music was also great itself. The strange objects, with the music and commentary created a wierd atmosphere that was interesting and kept me playing.

This is feels like modern art at this point. A meld of soft-, hard-, and wet-ware to overcome a truly infuriating experience. I can't look away or stop watching.

This was a great speedgame to follow. It was so easy to check up on it every so often and watch whole runs while seeing the strides being made.

If I ever told people from the early 2000's that someone would speedrun a game where a man merged with a pot and his arms glued to a Hammer, climbing a mountain would be a game people sink thousands of hours into I wonder what their reaction would be like.

I've been watching Blastbolt for 2+ years and every time he uploaded I was absolutely stunned by his skills, especially as someone who is very invested in speedrunning this game(my current PB is 3'46"). He slowly but surely pushed the game to its limits and absolutely deserves the crown of the king of Getting Over It. Also thank you to Leviathan, Yeet and every other speedrunner who proved that the impossible is achievable through enough determination, skills and patience. This is truly one of the greatest games ever made, so thank you, Bennet Foddy, for making this masterpiece of frustration.

This was amazing! I didn't even know that beating the 1 minute barrier was possible. Congratulations to Blastbolt for beating it! It's pretty cool that he composed the music too. Speedrunners are always so amazing. Thank you for covering this so well too! We always appreciate your hard work in making such well made videos.

Excellent job as always @Karl Jobst! Amazing how much history and credit you are able to give to these games records and communities

im so glad you made a video on this, watching the record slowly creep lower over the years has been exciting and it's unbelievable that it's finally over

I just dont understand how you are able to make this stuff so damn interesting and exciting. Jobst, you are the man.

That run is _insane._ I still remember watching RU-vidrs make slivers of progress over looooong videos.

Great video as always jobst. This one was particularly interesting, I love seeing runs of just completely unique games and seeing how the mechanics play out as the runners figure out. It's like watching science unfold lol

Nice to see Getting Over It getting more attention again, not just as a great game, but as a great speed game

The way you set the flow of the video and how you present the progression of the facts are so entertaining! I have seen many of your speed running videos and one of them that I liked the most was about Quake. Please keep up the great work and greetings from Brazil!

Really glad you made this. Was hoping one of our favorite speedrun historians like you would catalog this great achievement as it deserves!!

You made the difference between early and late speedruns very evident and it was impressive! GREAT video, thanks m8!

I love this game! It never was too frustrating for me. When you beat the game 50 times for the achievement, it inevitably becomes a tiny bit easier each time, and naturally you will beat the game in 10 to 20 minutes and leads you to se how fast you can go. Very satisfying. It is amazing to me how competitive and active the speedrunning scene for this game is to thist day: there are THOUSADS of times under 2 minutes all very close to each other

What a fantastic video. I didnt even remember this game, but this was truly fascinating. And the runners improved so much its so close to a TAS right now. truly impressive.

so happy to see a getting over it speedrun video from you

This was a truly incredible achievement, thank you for documenting it :)

Nice to see Dist get some love. His streams are so funny.

What he said about Distortion2 is even more evident now with his dominance of Only Up, which is basically 3d Getting Over It

That is such an amazing run! Huge congratulations to him!

Was hoping you would do a video on this game! Great video and congrats to Blastbolt 🥳🎉

seeing these runs never get old, so smooth and frustrating with how good they are

I'm glad you mentioned distortion, I started watching him cuz of his dark souls runs, but then noticed he just has so much skill with running and understanding such a wide variety of games

THANK YOU FOR MAKING A VIDEO ABOUT THIS I FOLLOWED GOI SPEEDRUNNING FOR SO LONG

Its truly epic watching the highest level of skill needed to break a record, and it absolutely shows in this run. Congrats BlastBolt for this simply breath taking run And Great Vid as always Karl

Thanks for making this video, coming from someone who makes maps and speedruns this game :)

Such a legendary game. It's amazing to see how far they have been pushing it❤

Best game of 2017. It was such a unique experience. Amazing to see it done with such precision.

Great stuff. Really enjoyed this thoroughly

Karl, you are a legend yourself. I love how you ingratiate yourself in the speed run to do it justice. Thanks for the well thought out videos!!

Thank you for all the work you put into those videos. Without your detailed explanation on what is going on in these runs these speedrunning legends wouldn't get the same amount of appreciation they truly deserve

Dist is a monster! His records are absolutely everywhere.

I've been following blastbolt and his dominantion in getting over it for quite some time, I'm super happy for him finally beating that barrier he was grinding for inhumane hours! He also did what he said he was gonna do, which I found crazy at that time, and incorporated TAS techniques in his speedruns. And although I can't even compare my skills in GOI to his, I know what it takes to improve that much for so little time saved. He's the GOAT of speedrunning this Game and broke sub 1 before most peoples predictions 2 years ago.

my friend and i have been trading pbs in getting over it for a few months now, and we've only just gotten below 4 minutes on our best runs. seeing the world record run is always wild because i genuinely can't comprehend how movement like that can be done. I sure can't do anything close to it

Thanks for your videos Karl!

Dudes out here inventing tapping like Eddie Van Halen

Getting over speedruns are incredible! Great video!!!

I remember playing the original version of this, "Sexy Hiking" by Jazzuo, back in the early 2000's when i was in highschool. I was into Gamemaker, and it was on their forums. It's so cool to see it get remade with such quality. Speaking of Gamemaker legends R.I.P. Shawn Noel aka Shawn64. That really messed me up when i found out he was gone.

An 18 minute video about speedrunning a game I never heard of with a guy in a pot with a hammer? Why yes, yes please

"And while the game already left the gaming zeitgeist, speedrunners mever really _got over it._" Hahaha, it's little details like that that I appreciate. It's art of its own breed. Thank you, Karl!

just like the game itself this is insanely overlooked, honestly one of biggest minute barrier break and bro deserves more attention for his crazy achievement

I've been watching blastbolt waiting for the sub 1m, so so glad you made this video

He got over it!

Huge props to the bolt for reaching the minute barrier! I can't even imagine how frustrating it must've been attempting to reach this. I've beaten the game in under 1m30s myself, but in hindsight, those 30 seconds are definitely the hardest to save.

Dis is my fav speed runner been watching him for years I remember watching him during these get over it streams

Normally I would say this will be the last minute barrier they break but speedrunners are so awesome that you can never really know

Bennet foddy is an absolute legend

Awesome video! What an incredible run and congratulations to all who set amazing times in this game.

I love it when my Billy Mitchell news channel covers speed running news too.

Dammit, every time I watch one of your videos I have to talk myself out of playing Mass Effect again.

When I saw the news, I decided to finally try the game and go in blind. Took me almost 9 hours of overnight gaming to beat it. Just makes this achievement seem all the more incredible.