'When I first saw the Memory of Grace, it got me thinking: what if I used the item just as I interacted with a Site of Grace? Nothing happened. We spoke to Fladi, who is credited with discovering the glitch in Elden Ring, about how he stumbled across this vital speedrunning tool.

It's a glitch that long-time Souls players may be familiar with, letting players utilize spawn points to skip entire sections of the games. 'WrongWarp' is a popular exploit among Elden Ring speedrunners. (Image credit: FromSoftware / ZullieTheWitch) Without that I would have had the sub-26.' The desire to break something as challenging and sprawling as Elden Ring down in under 26 minutes requires skill, patience, and technical precision, as well as an ability to wield exploits and glitches with deadly accuracy. 'That run overall went super well, the pace was very good and the only major mistake was failing the Gideon Tree skip once at the end, which cost around eight seconds.

When I first began reaching out to players in this community, rival runners Muftaay and Spicee were trading the world record back and forth, shaving seconds off of each other's times, sometimes just hours apart from one another.īy Muftaay's estimations, the 26:07 runtime is fast, but it's not fast enough. But for the most prolific Elden Ring speedrunners, that time is down to just 26 minutes and 07 seconds. An average playthrough of Elden Ring will typically take no fewer than 50 hours, which can easily double (if not triple) for those who are in a rush to conquer the Lands Between.

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