BotK World Records

My Favourite Runs of 2025

2025 has been a huge year for BotK speedrunning, with the release of the Switch 2 having a massive impact particularly on the Breath of the Wild scene. It's brought back beloved old routes and created many new and exciting ones! But the Switch 2 wasn't needed for every new development, as the community, as always, innovated at every opportunity which allowed for many new milestones to be reached across many categories, old and new.

December 31, 2025

November 2025 - BotK & TotK Records

Player5 started his Switch 2 (30fps) 100% grind in October in which he'd already comfortably beaten his v1.6.0 record twice. This trend continued last month as he lowered the record another two times to a 14:18. I remember exactly a year ago when the race for a sub-15 was on and now we seem to be closing in on the next hour barrier. Looking back at the 100% times from when I started and comparing them to today, it really is something to see how far this category has come over the last 5 years and how it still seems to be getting pushed further and further down. Of course we can't leave daqiu out of all of this, as they also got two new 60fps 100% records, leaving the category currently sitting just above the 15 hour mark.

December 04, 2025

October 2025 - BotW & TotK World Records

6 months after the release of the Switch 2, improvements to the newly created subcategories have not slowed down. VietnamNoOoh and huiwengege made continued improvements to All Dungeons on 30 and 60fps respectively, with the S2E so far proving itself to be the faster version at a 1:33 (now 1:30 at time of writing) which was where v1.6.0 runs were at a year and a half after BLSS's discovery. Vietnam wasn't restricted to just AD, as he also ran the first 1.8.2 All Main Quests run and made another 5 minute improvement to 1.8.2 Best Ending.

November 14, 2025

September 2025 - BotW & TotK World Records

To start this month off, I want to congratulate all the new BotW verifiers who got added to the boards this month. They've done an incredible job at keeping the queue almost permanently clear and keeping verification times down to less than a day! Verification times have been so good recently that I don't think I ended up verifying a single run over September; for the first time in the three years I've been a verifier for the game I've been able to take an actual break without worrying about coming back to a behemoth of a queue. So for that I'm extremely grateful for all the work cloud, lux, Zilano, Echecetdame and Frozen_bnk have done so far and everything they'll keep doing in the future <3

October 08, 2025

August 2025 - BotW & TotK World Records

Something I've enjoyed watching since the Switch 2's release is all these main board categories you might not immediately think of have their first 1.8.2 or 60fps runs verified. August had a lot of shrine-related categories either run for the first time or improved. takae was running the 1.8.2 S1 version of All Shrines, achieving a current time similar to that of runs immediately preceding the disovery of BLSS. daqiu was simultaneously running All Shrines but at 60fps and his current and first PB of 4:37:20 shows the sheer strength of S2E loads, that he should be less than 30 minutes away from the 1.6.0 world record despite the handicap of no BLSS, weaker windbombs and weaker BTBs. I think it'll be a category to watch in case the S2E becomes the faster version.

September 04, 2025

July 2025 - BotW & TotK World Records

With the dust settling in the wake of the Switch 2's release, we only saw more and more activity as the new category splits are getting their first runs verified. huiwengege has been leading this charge and running a wide range of categories on the Switch 2, from All Dungeons (which TyTt now holds the record of) to Best Ending. While these are very early days, it definitely is interesting to compare the Switch 2 Edition times so far to 1.6 runs or even pre-BLSS runs because of all the extra challenges imposed by the quirks of 60fps.

August 17, 2025

June 2025 - BotW & TotK World Records

Now that the boards are finally sorted out after the Switch 2 got released, I can finally publish June's records blog! You'll also notice I've posted this to somewhere new and I've moved here to leaflet because unlike WhiteWind, leaflet is in active development while also being developed on ATProto. And probably more obviously, it just looks so much better and I'm looking forward to more of the stuff that the devs have planned. I moved over April and May's blogs here last month too.

July 28, 2025

April 2025 - BotW & TotK World Records

As I already keep track of all world records across the Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom leaderboards, I thought I might like to try compiling them all into comprehensive monthly updates. Initially, the autistic hyperfixation was getting me to do a sort of revival of Bloom's old This Month in Breath of the Wild series, which went over everything of note that happened in the community each month. As a compromise with myself, I settled for just listing out world records as I knew doing a write-up of everything would be far too much work every month. Plus, this format still gets to celebrate runners' achievements, including those that may have gone under the radar.

June 14, 2025

May 2025 - BotW & TotK World Records

May featured some really great runs to watch. Firstly, (and I briefly mentioned it last month) LouLouCore managed to take down the Bug Limit Great Plateau Any% record down by 3 more seconds, putting the category on the very cusp of the 20 minute barrier. It was a very consistent run overall, with splits never going beyond +/- 2 seconds, though the two splits with timeloss show good promise that maybe the 19 is right around the corner.

June 14, 2025