Talk:3246: Speedrun

F1RST! I actually found the comic before Theusafbot did. K9Dragon23, or RainWingSquares (talk) (talk) 01:01, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

I also did a crappy first draft explanation. K9Dragon23, or RainWingSquares (talk) (talk) 01:03, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

There goes the speedrun records King Pando (talk) 01:38, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

L0l, my br0ther and father g0t me in0 t00l 216.25.182.141 02:59, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

aradia megido? --Utdtutyabthsc (talk) 03:24, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

Published on the 25th Anniversary of the song release right? 74.102.150.16 (talk) 05:14, 16 May 2026 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

wasn't there an olympic runner who requested a song to be played with his preferred beats per minute, only to be rejected out of a concern for an unfair advantage? 84.225.125.43 07:10, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

Wow! I needed this explanation. I knew nothing of speedruns, nor Tool. Usain Bolt I had heard of.--2A00:23CC:D248:8901:79C8:645F:821A:1BA3 08:37, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

Cueball is such a tool. 2A02:2455:1960:4000:2C98:4FB4:B92F:33B4 10:07, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

Shouldn't they remove Usain Bolt'd record as a TAS?--94.73.49.13

No, he was the one that did the record, not a programmed computer. A robot that was programmed to perform a series of specific inputs that make it run really fast would be a TAS. --DollarStoreBa'al^converse 15:26, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

Funny, I use Pneuma as my coding focus music.... 2A0A:EF40:2D3:201:A4CA:7332:48F3:6525 12:27, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

Unfamiliar with Tool or their music portfolio, I assumed those were the usernames of other speedrunners Cueball had analyzed to develop his technique, which made the punchline seem very harsh. RegularSizedGuy (talk) 00:06, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

Just a sidenote, to someone else's page edit about allowable device uses in marathons, I'm most familiar with a branch of cycle sport where earphones/etc are banned (mainly, I believe) for safety reasons (reduces proper awareness of traffic, etc), but also no speakers. Unsure of the original intent, could be a mix of road-awareness, being a public nuisance, the pacing issue as most linked to the comic; also, only recently have something like mini bluetooth speakers been available, perhaps to fit in a spare bottle-cage... Though that's not to say that I haven't seen someone ride a hill-climb with a boom-box bungeed to the rear-carrier, as a novelty/performative challenge.
You are allowed to have a mobile phone with you, if you so wish, but you shouldn't be using it hands-free and (while not strictly illegal, unlike for motor vehicle drivers) it would be impractical and unsafe to be using one 'hand-on' whilst actually competing, and the benefits of being 'remotely paced'/otherwise encouraged would be against the spirit (if not the letter) of the rules however you did it.
For yet another related sporting body, of my acquaintence, there are specific restrictions against 'live' on-the-move communications of any kind. (Not even allowed to do direct rolling support-vehicle assistance, like they aparently do in Road Racing.)
That said, there's nothing against a 'Cateye'/’Garmin'-style cyclocomputer presenting data (road speed, pedal revs, heartrate, watts, estimated Vmax, etc) that can be used to try to sustain the optimal ride (rather than... well, just trying as hard as you feel you jeed to try, for the duration of the event, be that a minute or two up a short, steep hill or twenty-four hours of doing ~500 miles of roads across and around a large area). I couldn't rule out there being a flashing/blinking LED/LCD solution to providing metronomic assistance without being an otyerwise impermissable audible cue. 82.132.238.107 13:19, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

Is this a Stephan Pastis guest strip? These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For (talk) 01:35, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

Oh yeah I used to do speedrunning. It was fun! I did 1-4 Any% in ULTRAKILL RG (talk) 03:48, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

The current text seems to be saying that marathon runners can't listen to music because devices aren't allowed to transmit data. This doesn't make sense, since music could be played from a device that can't transmit. Is it that marathon runners can't listen to music, full stop? BunsenH (talk) 14:25, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

So far as I can tell, it's just wrong. IAAF rules allow the use of data-transmitting devices such as heart rate sensors, body temperature sensors, etc., provided they can't communicate to another person. Meanwhile, UK Athletics rules permit the use of headphones on closed roads (though they ban them on non-closed roads and for cross-country races). Of course, individual organisers may impose more stringent restrictions, so it's possible that they're de facto banned, at least for competitive athletes. 82.13.184.33 15:37, 18 May 2026 (UTC)