Since 2022, one Skyrim speedrunner has set 14 straight glitchless world records - now the RPG's old champion has reclaimed his crown: "I finally f***ing did it"

Apr. 4, 2024

“Skyrim glitchless is mine!”

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There’s a new world record in one ofSkyrim’s biggest speedrunning categories from one of the game’s most prolific runners, and it breaks 17 months of dominance from a relative newcomer to the scene.

You can watch nucular’s full run over onTwitch, but if you’re not deeply familiar with Skyrim speedrunning, you might be better off checking out hispresentation of the category at GDQa few years ago. It’s old and it wasn’t a world record even then, but it will give you a solid overview of the strats involved in making a run like this work.

If you’re about to start laughing how it’d be impossible to play Skyrim truly “glitchless,” I promise you are not the first to make that joke. As nucular notes onReddit, “There’s only one disqualifying glitch that can happen by accident (except in rare cases) which is clipping into the mountain during the mountain climb, which isn’t a big deal since it’s only 7 minutes into the run.”

Skyrim diehard claims to have the RPG’s strongest unmodded character after grinding to level 1,337 by spamming Illusion spells for 43 hours.

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