The Longest Speedruns EVER 

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Theoretically, an "all achievements" run of Stanley Parable would be the longest speedrun I can think of. You have to unlock every in-game achievement and then not play the game for ten years. AND part of the all achievements run would include playing Stanley Parable for an entire Tuesday.

Not exactly a speedrun but a very long challenge is to get all characters to lvl 99 while still in the first reactor on original FF7; I think the guy that did it maxed out the game timer WELL before it was done and took months to do it.

Hey! That's my 43 hour long speedrun of Xenogears 100% you mentioned! Thanks for giving the game recognition! Did that run for a 1 year anniversary of me running the game. Was a blast, but I'd never do it again though.

Though it wasn't allowed on the leaderboards due to the fact that nobody is likely to try to best it, the longest single-segment speedrun is actually Animal Crossing New Leaf 100% by Coldeggman, with a time of 638:27:29. Though a substantial part of that time was due to the fact that time spent sleeping was counted in the final time, it still took ~322 hours of actual gameplay to 100% the game. And Coldeggman pretty much played the game with as few breaks as is reasonably possible for something that takes a month IRL to complete, as he played roughly 12 hours on most days of the run. The only runs longer than that that I have seen, are ones that are like Baten Kaitos in which the run is only so long because it requires waiting a substantial amount of time IRL for things to happen, such as Animal Crossing New Horizons Golden Fishing Rod no time travel, which IMO that one really doesn't count since it's just essentially playing the game casually but with a timer running in the background for close to a year.

An all achievements run(maybe excluding the impossible one) for The Stanley Parable would be 5 years, 1 day at the shortest.

Wow, that section about Undertale True 100% was really cool! I bet the runner is a super cool guy. Thanks for including my run!! Very entertaining video by the way. I actually plan on doing True 100% again next month, so that should be... entertaining.

Honorable mention to speedruns of 'Ring Fit Adventure' - Intended - Max Intensity - 100%, which are not only over 30 hours long, but require unthinkable human endurance.

The max cape speedrun that JCW and He Box Jonge are running in Old School RuneScape right now is insane, they're going to end up being ~1000 hour runs

As someone who likes speedruns but wants to waste an entire day watching one. This helped.

I still think the most fascinating speedrun that we never got was the Final Fantasy XI 100% achievements discussion for the Xbox 360. The PC version doesn't have achievements, and the Xbox 360 version was shut down years ago. It was a 57 achievement run that had ludicrous requirements, such as getting every class to Level 75, achieving a Rank 100 in synthesis or fishing, completing all missions , and clearing various PVP challenges. People discovered ways to farm a few out, but speedrunners still figured the run would take months. Not weeks, months! Some wanted to try for it assuming they could just keep track of what they normally would be unlocking, but the task was far too daunting. Xbox360Achievements even listed the run would take anywhere from 6 months to over 2 years. Granted, speedrunners would be closer to the months category, but can you imagine said run actually existing?!

You forgot about Breath of the Wild

hearing you call 'final fantasy 10' 'final fantasy x' made me laugh super hard every time. i gotta imagine that a star ocean 4 100% run would be 100's of hours long.

Definitely not as long as some of the entries here, but I'd like to give an honorable mention to wh0misds' Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Recruit 'Em All runs. This absolute champ has done Recruit 'Em Alls for Blue Rescue Team (58:03:39), Explorers of Sky (31:42:16), and a marathon REM of Blue Rescue Team, Explorers of Sky and Gates to Infinity totalling 132:11:24 !

You should check out maxing all skill in Old School RuneScape, even the fastest players take almost 2000 hours of in-game time. In addition, people going for fastest max are playing HYPER efficient while playing. And since to many people this is essentially “beating the game” I think it’s a reasonable thing to consider for a list like this :)

small thing for GT4: there are two 100% runs. One is the regular 100% (reaching 100% on the games counter) and True 100% (collect every car, speed run shown in video)

Imagine having to sync your speedrun to the moon cycle

Another extremely long Speedrun I remember was Shadow the Hedgehog True 100%, similar to the Undertale True 100%, the run consists of beating the game on every single route variation, as well as unlocking every Door with 5 Keys hidden in each level and also A Ranking every mission for every stage. The game consists of 326 unique route combinations for the splitting paths between the game's first stage and 10 diferent endings, which the game keeps track of to see which cutscenes to play and in which order in the game's Cutscene Library, 100% in this case would include unlocking every single route to watch in the Library. The only run to my knowledge that has been done was by *BlazinZzetti* , beating the game in 181 hours, 14 minutes and 47 seconds trought 53 days, this using an exploit to get unlimited Chaos Control gauge and basicly warp to the end of most stages, skipping "get to the goal" missions but risking crashes, which happened around 90 times, he mentions that he has no intentions to do a True 100% Glitchless as this was already too long, he also has no plans on doing this again any time soon, if ever. In order to not have to do a weeks long speedrun every time, the "100%" category ignores the Library for obvious reasons, still requiring the 10 endings at least once, all A Ranks and Doors, Expert Mode and the Final Story, reducing the run to around 7~ish hours, which is still long, but a huge far cry from 181. BlazinZzetti still ocationally runs (both glitchless and not) individual levels, endings and sometimes Expert Mode, also having some 100% No Library runs too btw

How dare that Baiten Kaitos guy sleep during a 330 hour speedrun

I’m really surprised Tom Phantasy’s 301 hour nacht der untoten round 255 run on black ops 3 isn’t on here. Not only is it an immensely hard category but bo3 errors about a month after you initially start it due to entity overflow, so he had to average 12 hours a day straight gaming for a MONTH. Cruppz has a great video on this exact run, it definitely deserves more attention for the amount of effort that went into it.

Wanted to give a shout out to the Shadow The Hedgehog True 100%. It was done once 5 years ago and isn't listed on the leaderboards, but took 53 days IRL and finished at 181:14:47. It requires that you beat the game over 300 times to complete every possible story path, get every secret collectible key, and get the best possible rank in every stage.

Something someone may have mentioned is the dude who levels up his Wow char solely by mining and picking herbs. Absolute madlad. Not really a Speedrun, but in that level of insanity that it takes to do these super long runs.

YOU CUT OFF ZELDA. HOW DARE YOU?? Just kidding! That was pretty clever honestly.

I remember watching a Mario Party 4 100% run that lasted around 50 hours. The 2nd place runner had to take a break twice while the game was still running, and as time goes on in the run you can see the runner start to get really out of it, but still in it enough to finish the run. The longest run to a game that should not have taken so long is the last place run of Crash Twinsanity (I think Any%). The user's run clocked in at 24 hours for a category that takes like 13 minutes to run. This was because he left his timer on when he left for something I think. It's hard to say as the full stream I think is gone.

Another interesting long speedrun would be loz Twilight Princess low%. This isn't crazy long, clocking in at only about 15 hours 43 minutes at the time of me writing this, but it is interesting in that a significant majority of the time is spent looking at an item in link's hands. This is because the animation for viewing an item you get from a chest is missing a frame, so you move slightly backwards every loop which lets you clip out of bounds. There is a really cool video that explains it on the Lowest% youtube channel made by Gymnast I believe.

Ten, it's called Final Fantasy 10. It is the tenth in the main line series of Final Fantasy. They are using roman numerals.

7:36 Since you said you've never played a Final Fantasy game, it's "Final Fantasy _10_", not literally "Final Fantasy 'X'". The main FF series uses Roman numerals.

Toto is a unique case. About the RNG manipulation, when RNG manip was discovered, Toto was able to finish his historic 100% run that was incredibly unlucky. He was missing one card: Harpie's Pet Dragon - and had done over 2000 duels looking for it, at 2 minutes+ a duel. The RNG manip was for that last card.

This channel has VERY quickly shot to the top of speedrun content IMO 7:48 marvelous

Fantastic video me thinks. BrianMp16's 344 hour 100% animal crossing run where he played every day within a year with minimal time travel and even found a way to get the exclusive and kinda technically unobtainable but also not really its complicated nook code items lives in my heart as the most honorable of honorable mentions :-]

I cannot imagine the dedication and real life planning that go into a 30h+ run. That's way beyond, I'm spending my entire weekend doing this. It must require at least a day either side of preparations and recovery. Insane.

100% runs of pretty much any RPG take a special breed for sure. Imagine being the best player on Earth, spending thousands of hours on practice alone, and still losing most runs to RNG. It's endless content if you're a streamer I suppose, but man I just don't think I could handle having so little control over such long runs.

Watching people break the original Final Fantasy 7 is my new favorite speedrun. That was the 1st game I ever bought with a paycheck lol.

This was a great video! I love the 1862 and I've done one myself except I added bowsers fury to the end to make it a 1962 it took me around 62 hours and it was fun the whole time!

"Longest Speedrun" sounds like an oxymoron.

I believe something like a "no time manipulation" speedrun of "THE LONGING" would be interesting. Literally just 400 days of waiting if I'm not wrong.

Old School Runescape’s max cape run is longer, expected to be clocking in at around 35 days. Two people are speedrunning it right now, and they’re on the ass end of it. They’re planning on releasing the final play time at the same time, so we’ll see how long it actually is shortly.

The hate for "word%" speedrun categories is objectively false, because the "Nazeem%" Skyrim category is the best speedrunning category ever made full stop. Checkmate.

A RNG based, 12 hour plus speedrun is definitely the recipe for a grueling time, in surprised people even run those type of games

Max cape speedruns have now been done in OSRS and more restricted versions of max cape runs are in progress. They clock in at like 760 hours on the low end or something and it is all active play time.

Ayy, cheers for the cameo

Segmented runs are actually maybe more traditional than single segment runs, in the early 2000s the majority of speedruns you can find on speed demos archive are segmented

Man, I am ready to hear more about these long Breath of the Wild runs.

Great analysis video! Thanks for uploading! Good luck with the move, & here's looking forward to more content like this from you!

Well this is all mind boggling but in the osrs community we have currently several speedrunners running "max cape%" which I don't follow closely but to my understanding takes about 800-1000 hours lol

Watched it 'till the end. Now seeing long speedruns drive my mind NON COMPOS MENTIS!! I mean… WHAT THE HECK?! Incredulously looooonng! Don't worry, your videos are always one of my favorite content to watch. I really enjoy it.

Was hoping you would talk a bit about Call of Duty: Zombies high rounds (specifically Black Ops 1-3) as through the years they have became 60-200+ hour speedruns due to round caps and resets. It's a very small community of runners who have spent the last decade or more hyper-optimizing high rounds into max round speedruns. Coop is especially impressive as players have gone 80hrs with only 4-8 hours of sleep and some have even died in the process. Some absolute legends that are unheard of but equally deserving of respect.

Woah this is so interesting! It's amazing the dedication speedrunners can have to a certain game - awesome video!

My favorite long speedrun is Twilight Princess low%, in which Link stares at rupees for several hours.

Dragon Warrior VII on the North American PS1 release takes anywhere from 15 to about 20 hours just to complete the Any% category with JP only taking around 12-13 hours and on the 3DS remake there are 2 submitted runs which took 22 hours and 23 hours respectively.

Good video I'd like to mention that the 1862 record has been beaten by the same guy with a 34:57:39, a few days ago Long speedruns are really cool in a way because they feel more special than a 7 minute speedrun, due to the endurance and will power required to finish such a long run.

Your videos are amazing man not sure how there isn’t more traction yet but you’re on the road for sure keep up the good content

good work on this video! always nice when u get a well researched video from a small channel in ur algorithm

TOTOzigemm's 201 hour forbidden memories manip run is that long because it was originally the run from the very first 100% race (where i did that 174h run). He couldn't get harpies pet dragon for many,many, MANY hours so it became a meme. At one point when RNG manip became a thing, he just finished it with manipulating the last drop. That's why it is that long

"The Longing" has you beat. To complete the game a 400 DAY timer has to complete, which is roughly 9600 hours. Dont know why they made it that day.

It's pretty crazy that the community puts themselves through hours of torture like this. But it's pretty impressive as well, especially when it comes to super difficult games

There's a story of a Nethack ascension run that went on for over a year. On floor one. Yes, you read that correctly. A WHOLE DAMN YEAR. ON FLOOR ONE. How one would do this is beyond me.

One that's worth a look and that is taken seriously: Path of Exile's longer categories. Although it's hard to compare times from different patches. Best time I'm aware of for "The Feared" on a fresh start is about 16 hours. Fresh start to level 100 is taken much less seriously now (it was much more competitive in the past), but in 3.17 the solo version was won on day 6, with 2 people getting it that day, and 4 more on day 7. So that's around 132 hours.

Although it's well under 100 hours, I feel Skurry's Hollow Knight Low% True Ending run should be mentioned

Summoning salt has influenced so many creators and i love it

Just found your channel. Great video! I love your comedic style.

I’m a little sad you didn’t cover the 100% just cause 3 speed runs but overall a great video!

Great video :D shame you didn't stumble upon Harry Potter Full Series runs though. The longest (essentially first) submitted run was 39:44:08, done in one sitting. 23 completely different games, each requiring hours upon hours of learning to get a decent run. But the even bigger behemoth of a run is also Full Series, but 100%. Record is about 84h RTA with ~70h of total playtime. That's 3.5 days long run with just TWO 7 hours long breaks for sleep. And these games aren't easy to 100%, one of them had to actually be replayed entirely due to a missed collectible. The run is brutal, required tones of prep and will of steel

My favorite is the Hollow Knight low% """Speedrun""" where you spend like 50 hours killing bees

In the same way as that spider game, the longest theoretical speedrun I can think of is Batman: Arkham City, all achievements, no time manipulation. It will take you nearly a year to see all of the special holiday conversations with Calendar Man.

where botw in all seriousness, great video as always! glad to see a great upload from a great channel

Call of Duty Zombies high rounds are basically playing as fast as you can to get as high of a round before reaching an inevitable error making it a speedrun. Depending on map, the error can range from like 60-100+ hours, the longest error being 300 hours that has actually been reached.

I don't know if it's actually been performed, but I'd imagine Any Animal Crossing 100% No Time Manipulation would probably be even longer than Spider... At over a YEAR for 100%

I can imagine there will be a time sometime in the distant future where people speedrun an "All Characters, No Top Up" category in a Gacha game like Genshin Imapct or the like. Come to think of it, I think I know of a few people who might actually DO it. Boredom is a powerful motivator.

Awesome video idea! Your content keeps getting better! Here’s the question; Did you speedrun the move? If so what’s your PB and strats?

There's a guy who ran all 23 mainline harry potter games 100% speedrun, although he did take breaks in between, so in IGT took 70 hrs but rta took 84 hours crazy.

Oh hey, my name appears on the Forbidden Memories hundo section! Mom, get the camera! To elaborate on why the RNG manipulation category has a time longer than everyone in the No RNG Manipulation category, it's because TOTOzigemm's run (the person with 1st place and the only time on the RNG Manipulation category) was finished back in 2016 when RNG Manipulation was allowed in the main category as there was no split in the categories at the time. So, because his run is old, it originally appeared as last on the main leaderboard, but now that there is a split, he got that juicy WR when the RNG Manipulation category split was created.

I stumbled across this video since it was on the recommended list from Super Mario 64 blindfolded 100%. It "merely" took 11+ hours, so compared to this list it might seem small, but I can't imagine how intense it would be to play a game without seeing and with no breaks for that long.

500 hours for "Speedrun" i wonder how long "Normal Gameplay" is 😅

Another game that kinda counts would be a longing low% run where you just wait for 400 real days

Time to add maxed OSRS account to the list. 2 players just completed a speed run from a new account to maxed.

ugh imagine grinding 99% of the way through a crumby YGO game only to have RNGesus decide that your opponent assembled exodia.

While I liked the video I find it funny that you put in GT4, but not even mentioned GT Sport Platinum %, which in itself is a 239h speedrun, but instead of 4 people, it was achieved by only one person in a span of 10 days, which is fully documented as well...

There should be “No sleep” categories for sub 72 hour runs.

The WR for Round 255 speedrun on Nacht der untoten on Black Ops 3 Zombies is over 300 hours! You only have 25 irl days to finish a game, and you have to start over if you die at any point.

There’s actually longer runs: Old school runescape maxing

It's funny that you say segmented isn't traditional considering many runs in the early 2000s were segmented, especially stuff like Zelda hundo.

Hey dude, you're my favorite speed runner and I've been inspired to start speed running myself. i'd really appreciate it if you could answer some of my questions. do u think that yoshi gets embarrassed when he poos out eggs in front of mario??? sorry if this ofends anyone but i thought it was a funny thing haha. and i would like to know if any of you have any pics of yoshi pooping an egg while he looks nervous or embarrassed i just want to see it for a few laughs haha. another thing i am wondering is what do you think the eggs smell like haha im just curious for laughs haha i would like to smell them

Sub 20 hour is the craziest thing I've hear about speedruns. This video is such a treat, thank you for making this man lol

Ok these people need to watch the "Speedrunning in a nutshell" video every morning

When the longest Speedrun is longer than the amount of time it takes to beat 2 JRPGs back to back 💀

Final Fantasy VII's 100% category may be on the shorter end of the length scale, clocking it at only 16:05:51 on the PC version and a somewhat outdated 17:47:45 on the PSX version, but it's a dense and heavily planned run for its length. My incomplete guide for the current best route is so far at about 130 pages with the current runner being somewhat annoyed at them not being detailed enough (Granted, some of that length is from a 8-9 page section duplicated 8 times with slight variations, but that's because the route splits into eight sub-routes at one point).

I never heard anyone pronounce the ten in "FFX" as an "X," but I guess there's a first time for everything!

This stuff isn't healthy when it's taking up half your day and interrupts sleep

Just found your channel. Would love these types of videos without the humor. Love them even more with the humor. You pull it off perfectly!

I find it funny you say you don't know a lot about Xenogears, when a clip in your intro is literally from the game. :P

7:16 carpaltunnel_of_love is the best name i have ever heard

"Shadow the hedgehog 100% WITH the library" has been done a single time in a segmented fashion by BlazinZzetti in 181 hours. Its not the longest, but its never remembered in the discussion, so I prefer to name it when I can.

The Longing takes 400 days to beat!

Everyone we must work together so we can make these runs shorter. Come on, make these runs better.

I passed by this video as I was looking up speedruns of several games I play on the regular. And then I looked up Old School RuneScape (mainly for its quest speedrunning server-based categories). Apparently there is a side category called "Max Cape" which requires runners to reach Lv99 on every skill and max an entire account. There are very few runs, yet they go by at least 700 hours.

Shoutouts to the speedrun marathon group ReallyReallyLongAThon who specialize in doing marathons of longer speedruns.

More interesting then actual speedrunners to be honest.

You're pretty funny

For a bit more information, the Gran Turismo 4 game has 3x24h endurance races. So 3 races of hundreds of races of dozen of cups already add up to 72h