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In its very essence, a speedrun can be described as an exceedingly skilled playthrough of a particular video game or part thereof in a competitive matter, which is usually recorded for either verifiability or simply entertainment purposes. Verifiability may be described as stemming from the necessity to provide evidence that one's playthrough went by the typical or game-specific speedrunning rules and thus counts as a valid attempt to beat the record. Entertainment has traditionally been the reason for the creation of speedruns, as it stems from being performed by sequence breaking enthusiasts who began using the video medium to show their skills each other.