12.5 minute Elden Ring speedrun record skips all but one boss

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As Elden Ring speedruns get faster, the runners aren't only becoming more efficient, but also skipping more of the game on their way to the credits. In the latest world record run, which clocks in at 12 minutes and 32 seconds(opens in new tab), Mitchriz only has to fight one boss.

The new 'zip'(opens in new tab) and 'meta zip' technique lets you zoom around the game and make times like this possible. The 19 minute record(opens in new tab), less than two weeks old, already looks slow and ancient by comparison. 

To pull off the trick, you can see Mitchriz set his character up in a blocking animation as a series of sounds play in the background to guide him, like he's playing Mario Kart and about to start the race. When the final beep hits, he presses W and his character gets catapulted across the map so fast that the world takes a second to catch up and load in.

Zips allow Mitchriz to skip all of Limgrave and head directly into Liurnia. From there, he has to pick up the Icerind Axe (for the weapon skill) and go through the waygate to a late game area. In previous speed runs, this is where the real run started because it leads directly into a series of bosses before the end of the game, but in the current route, this is the first and last boss. With zips, every boss(opens in new tab) after that can be skipped, leading right to the end of the game. 

«Alright, it all comes down to this. Two zips to go,» Mitchriz said as the loading screen took him to the game's final area.

With extremely specific character positioning and a PC that's able to maintain a framerate stable enough to make the glitch possible, he was able to propel his character directly onto the steps before the final fog door in the game. Instead of walking