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Played by baby (me) and metrosexual hipster/Sparkle1Princess Pressing tab may have made this a little more interesting sorry about that.

Leaderboards: http://steamcommunity.com/stats/Porta... Here is the run that beat this (and the current world record): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLziYy... Old info: This run beats Bananasaurus by 0.15, but honestly his run is nicer. I don't use the crazy incinerator jump skip at the beginning, but manage to make up some time elsewhere. This run isn't exactly perfect anyway... I missed the portal stand and fumble about before picking up the portal gun. I'm still not really sure why this is the world record, but I'm happy for now. I might improve this later, but I also might not do anything that I say I will. Also, this is done somewhat in response to spyrunite, who posted a pretty decent run and made me think that a world record was possible without the full incinerator skip. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjABwH...) ps I am actually working on that bunny hopping tutorial if you can believe it.

Update: New video is done! Check it out for more in-depth info on movement in Portal 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNv1rj... Just a very quick demonstration of a circle jump in Portal 2. I made the keys in Blender and manually animated everything so it might not be perfect. I wanted to make a slow motion part after this, but I don't know how to use computers so this is it. Also, there's no sound because I couldn't find a good 2 second song to accurately portray the emotions expressed in the demonstration. You could play your own if you have something in mind. PS if someone wants to see a full bunny hop with this same overlay I could do it. I just need to know if that's a thing that people actually want. PPS Oddly enough, there is a Wikipedia page that describes circle jumping (in quake at least -- the only difference is not holding foward in Portal 2): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafe-j...

I managed to get the #2 spot with this route, but just grabbing the box from the faith plate is much faster (and very lame). http://steamcommunity.com/stats/Porta...

There are a ton of random factors and crazy things that need to happen by chance in this chamber. Definitely one of the worst ever. The mistakes that I made in the beginning really didn't end up making much of a difference since the first turret was white and I ended up waiting anyway. Getting to the turret by around the 32 second mark is usually good enough. After that, I miss the first turret boost but try again without any real setup and somehow make it. The jump from the blue beam was fine, and I really took my time on the jump to the final catwalk. From then on, my bunny hops were okay, but far from perfect. I wanted to explain how that turret boost works but I really have no idea. There is no pattern at all, even after playing this chamber hundreds of times it seems totally random. I just place the first turret down, and then jump on it really fast using my mouse wheel while holding the second turret. Also, pushing the turret around with the second turret is very random as well, so instead of trying to nudge the turret around the corner of the catwalk, I just throw the first one and pick up the second behind it. I've had the turret fly off the catwalk way too many times to mess around with trying to get that extra half second. Route credit goes to transgenic86: http://youtu.be/ci5nLXeUp2o and also igorrson: http://youtu.be/YYUjBCl4uMk Leaderboard: http://steamcommunity.com/stats/Porta... P.S. sorry about the quiet audio I forgot to turn my in-game sound up before recording.

After at least 10 hours of playing this chamber (non-consecutively) I managed to get the best run ever. Not only do I make the turret jump, I also make the jump between the rafters only to fall to my death after not expecting to hit the invisible platform on top of the catwalk. This is probably the 4th or 5th time that I made the turret jump right away, but every time has either ended badly or happened with bad luck on the defective turrets. To beat the current World record, I only need to get 2/5 of the turrets, but after the 5th the time honestly becomes too close to be practical. The other worst part of this chamber is pushing the turrets around only to have them fly off the platform or explode for no reason at all. Fortunately that didn't happen this time. Even though I waited for the 4th turret, had I completed the rest of the level without failing too badly, I still would've beat the world record by about 5 seconds. PS. the beginning of the video is cut off because source recorder but that's not what matters so ignore it. Also the audio is quiet oh well. And it's dark, but thats to accompany the somber mood.

Contest Rules: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXl4em... Other fast entries: Gig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0zE25... Spyrunite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kgkEo... Not a bad run, but this route is very dependent on the player's aim, and is therefore very hard to perfect. This is to take the competition back from Spyrunite13 and Gig, who uploaded similar times earlier today. I had an idea that the faith plate was really the biggest time sink in this chamber, and it turns out that skipping it and the adjacent hallway, even after having to backtrack a bit, is faster than the previous run.

Leaderboards: http://steamcommunity.com/stats/Porta... After playing this A LOT I was finally able to beat jyjey's score without doing that crazy jump at the beginning. Still, this run is not perfect, but it is much better than my previous and I'm pretty pleased with it. Optimizing the beginning became more about jumping properly on inclines in order to get a boost out of the incinerator. Other than that, this is almost identical to my previous run. In case you couldn't tell, this chamber is really frustrating. At least three times I hit the frame of the door on the way out of the chamber, only to miss the world record by 0.2 or less. That, and the 1029830984 hour wait for the chamber to start makes this WR pretty satisfying.

Contest Rules: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXl4em... The ending is a little bit bad, but everything else worked out like a dream. I imagine this could be improved by doing some solid jumping on the bridges, but this seems good enough to me.

Sorry about the audio, just a quick demo recording that will probably be replaced later. Also, the internal video recording command cuts off the time at the end, so heres the leaderboard: http://steamcommunity.com/stats/Porta...

The actual world record this time. This route only took me 11 attempts, you can see that I totally forgot what I was doing halfway through. Its also worth noting that I first saw this route here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gg6BP... so credit to whoever discovered this (dEx?) http://steamcommunity.com/stats/Porta...

After at least 10 hours of playing this chamber (non-consecutively) I managed to get the best run ever. Not only do I make the turret jump, I also make the jump between the rafters only to fall to my death after not expecting to hit the invisible platform on top of the catwalk. This is probably the 4th or 5th time that I made the turret jump right away, but every time has either ended badly or happened with bad luck on the defective turrets. To beat the current World record, I only need to get 2/5 of the turrets, but after the 5th the time honestly becomes too close to be practical. The other worst part of this chamber is pushing the turrets around only to have them fly off the platform or explode for no reason at all. Fortunately that didn't happen this time. Even though I waited for the 4th turret, had I completed the rest of the level without failing too badly, I still would've beat the world record by about 5 seconds. PS. the beginning of the video is cut off because source recorder but that's not what matters so ignore it. Also the audio is quiet oh well. And it's dark, but thats to accompany the somber mood.

Update: New video is done! Check it out for more in-depth info on movement in Portal 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNv1rj... Just a very quick demonstration of a circle jump in Portal 2. I made the keys in Blender and manually animated everything so it might not be perfect. I wanted to make a slow motion part after this, but I don't know how to use computers so this is it. Also, there's no sound because I couldn't find a good 2 second song to accurately portray the emotions expressed in the demonstration. You could play your own if you have something in mind. PS if someone wants to see a full bunny hop with this same overlay I could do it. I just need to know if that's a thing that people actually want. PPS Oddly enough, there is a Wikipedia page that describes circle jumping (in quake at least -- the only difference is not holding foward in Portal 2): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafe-j...

I managed to get the #2 spot with this route, but just grabbing the box from the faith plate is much faster (and very lame). http://steamcommunity.com/stats/Porta...

Leaderboards: http://steamcommunity.com/stats/Porta... Here is the run that beat this (and the current world record): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLziYy... Old info: This run beats Bananasaurus by 0.15, but honestly his run is nicer. I don't use the crazy incinerator jump skip at the beginning, but manage to make up some time elsewhere. This run isn't exactly perfect anyway... I missed the portal stand and fumble about before picking up the portal gun. I'm still not really sure why this is the world record, but I'm happy for now. I might improve this later, but I also might not do anything that I say I will. Also, this is done somewhat in response to spyrunite, who posted a pretty decent run and made me think that a world record was possible without the full incinerator skip. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjABwH...) ps I am actually working on that bunny hopping tutorial if you can believe it.

Contest Rules: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXl4em... Other fast entries: Gig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0zE25... Spyrunite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kgkEo... Not a bad run, but this route is very dependent on the player's aim, and is therefore very hard to perfect. This is to take the competition back from Spyrunite13 and Gig, who uploaded similar times earlier today. I had an idea that the faith plate was really the biggest time sink in this chamber, and it turns out that skipping it and the adjacent hallway, even after having to backtrack a bit, is faster than the previous run.

There are a ton of random factors and crazy things that need to happen by chance in this chamber. Definitely one of the worst ever. The mistakes that I made in the beginning really didn't end up making much of a difference since the first turret was white and I ended up waiting anyway. Getting to the turret by around the 32 second mark is usually good enough. After that, I miss the first turret boost but try again without any real setup and somehow make it. The jump from the blue beam was fine, and I really took my time on the jump to the final catwalk. From then on, my bunny hops were okay, but far from perfect. I wanted to explain how that turret boost works but I really have no idea. There is no pattern at all, even after playing this chamber hundreds of times it seems totally random. I just place the first turret down, and then jump on it really fast using my mouse wheel while holding the second turret. Also, pushing the turret around with the second turret is very random as well, so instead of trying to nudge the turret around the corner of the catwalk, I just throw the first one and pick up the second behind it. I've had the turret fly off the catwalk way too many times to mess around with trying to get that extra half second. Route credit goes to transgenic86: http://youtu.be/ci5nLXeUp2o and also igorrson: http://youtu.be/YYUjBCl4uMk Leaderboard: http://steamcommunity.com/stats/Porta... P.S. sorry about the quiet audio I forgot to turn my in-game sound up before recording.

Played by baby (me) and metrosexual hipster/Sparkle1Princess Pressing tab may have made this a little more interesting sorry about that.