Elden Ring continues to be the subject of record-breaking challenges by various speedrunners, with the new low recently set by streamer Distortion2 who incredibly completed it in less than 9 minutes, representing a truly impressive milestone.
This is the first time that the 10-minute wall has been broken, considering that the previous record was still here 12 minutes for the completion of the game, but Distortion2 has raised the bar even further to a level really complicated to reach for others, at least for the moment.
Obviously, such a time cannot be achieved without resorting to glitches and in fact even in this case a new exploit has been exploited that allows the player to teleport from one part of the map to another. All this is part of the general rules established for speedruns, since the others also exploit such systems, as long as they are part of the game’s own code and do not require the modification of parameters or the use of mods.
The precise completion time scored by Distortion2 is 8 minutes and 56 seconds, thus lowering by just over a minute under the 10-minute wall, a time that the speedrunners G1nnz and Mitchriz had previously reached.
There is still room for improvement, considering that an obstacle is currently the need to defeat Malekith among the bosses: if a system were found to overcome this without having to face the clash, then the doors would open to even lower conclusion times.