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How speedrunners make inputs humans can’t match

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Human reflexes are far too sluggish to achieve true digital perfection. Enthusiasts utilize special emulator tools to program inputs that execute perfectly on every single sixtieth of a second. The result is a chaotic, terrifyingly optimized blur of motion that completely breaks the physics engine in ways a normal human could never possibly mimic.

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