I ' ve been watching them since they started it from their own homes before they even had a legitimate name . I ' ve been a massive fan of SpeedDemosArchive for ages now . About a fifth of the games they play come close to or make it to WR . The typical game that gets a WR at these events are more obscure games that the current WR holder has typically admitted to being able to beat . Their reason for not bothering is typically the number of people interested in taking it can be counted on one hand for the entire year and the new people rarely join that fray . As well , they themselves dont really care about the game that much either . Typically , stated in their streams or commentaries of their runs after obtaining the WR the first time . Ones that do win WR typically state they are using the enhanced strats straight from the WR holders page . People in the speed running community tend to be super open with one anther encouraging competition . If you like watching WR that even the WR holder typically doesn ' t care about , then by my guest , but on games people typically care about they ' re behind . You said yourself at five seconds , which doesn ' t sound like much , when these people take milliseconds as time wasted on games , five seconds is like saying a middle school track star is in the same league as Usain Bolt . Also , typically , it seems like the Games Done Quick WR fall off rather quickly when the person comes back to do a perfect run of what was shown there weeks later on the archive pages . You ' re not wrong , but they ' re still not there to get WR runs . They ' re there to beat games quickly and raise money for charity . Should a WR drop out of the sky that day , awesome , but it isn ' t a prime goal by a long shot at these events .