New Portal speed run record set at 8.5 minutes

Speedy thing goes into, speedy thing comes out – and a brand new Portal speedrun world record has been clocked at just 8 minutes, 31.93 seconds. That’s almost a minute speedier than the previous record, and about five or six hours speedier than my best time.

The segmented speedrun (not the same thing as a single-segment speedrun) was completed in 24 parts by SourceRuns members Nick “Z1mb0bw4y” Roth, Josh “Inexistence” Peaker, Nick “Gocnak” Kerns, and special guest Sebastian “Xebaz” Dressler.

“There were no cheats, hacks, or modifications made to the game while the speedrunning took place. Everything you see in this video can be done on a current Steam version of Portal without using any console commands. Any part where the video ‘stutters’ or when a ‘console box pops up’ signifies a segment,” read the blurb under the video on YouTube.

“To be [Speed Demos Archive] legal we have done our run without using scripts/cheats/hacks for any portion of the run. This run first started after the discovery of a new glitch, which snowballed into a whirlwind of discoveries of new tricks, skips, and glitches.

“We started running chambers in April, took a brief hiatus, and then resumed work in late June. The bulk of the run was completed in about two weeks time.”

Check out the video below to see how it’s done, and realise just how much you suck at games.