We've seen a few Elden Ring speedruns already, with folks doing things like winning the game without ever dying a single second in Lands Between, among other challenge runs. But someone who's been setting records in the world for Elden Ring Runes running the latest Souls-like from FromSoftware in the fastest speed possible has returned with a brand new high score.

 

YouTuber and noted Souls speedrunner Distortion2 posted another video of their record-breaking completion duration of 18 hours and 56 seconds. It's crazy! In the latest game, Distortion2 employed an exploit that breaks the rules of gaming called "The Zip"," that teleports your Tarnished around the map, letting you avoid entire sections that are part of the game. According to various threads on the community from Reddit to YouTube it's a challenge to nail the glitch's timing. In order to do The Zip, you're supposed to keep your eyes on and advance at specific times that make it difficult to do without any regularity. There are some automatic hot keys that you can utilize to make The Zip a bit easier, but those seem to be only for PC users.

 

In addition to making frequent usage of The Zip exploit--like employing it to skip from the first Site of Grace to Stormhill's Stormgate in between two and three seconds, the remainder of Distortion2's run is pretty familiar to anyone who's either been playing Elden Ring or watched any of the numerous insane speedruns. Distortion2 was able to zip from The Stormgate Site of Grace, in which Melina offers you Torrent which takes you to Liurnia of the Lakes to get a few things such as The Icerind Hatchet for the nerfed Hoarfrost Stomp weapon, while ignoring almost all enemies they came into contact with. Then, they used two of them: and the Wrong Warp and Zip glitches to navigate into the Lands Between. Distortion2 also employed to fly Torrent exploit to swiftly reach the Academy of Raya Lucaria, which is often viewed as a shortcut to buy Elden Ring Runes the Volcano Manor.