When did you start Speedrunning?

[UchihaSasuke]

i've been playing racing games like Mario Kart and F-Zero since 1997 but my first time doing speedruns in non-racing games has to be around 2005 with the GBA Metroids. i had found SDA in 2004 so i watched several runs since then and later, i was checking out many discoveries for OoT like superslides, bomb hover and many ways to cut time that were found around early 2006 and that made me play Zelda games for SBing and speed.

[AkiGrahamShitatsuchi]

Nvr.

[Phazon]

I used to try and beat Goldeneye levels quickly when I was a kid. I also played a lot of 10-Man Melee on SSBM as well as pretty bad time trials on MKDD and DKR. Then Super Metroid and Metroid Prime, but I never finished either. Finally Wind Waker, which I'm doing now. Atm I'm planning to do a Viewtiful Joe 2 speedrun after the Wind Waker one, but I'm not completely sure on that.

[Runnerguy2489]

I used to try and beat Goldeneye levels quickly when I was a kid.

Now that you mention it I did this too, just for the cheats.  I'd say I wasn't half bad for a 9 year old. All my friends needed to ask me for help in getting the invincibility cheat on Facility.

[Phazon]

I was a few years older than that and I still couldn't get the invincibility cheat (along with about 5 others lol). Then I discovered strafe-running.

[pivotguyDC1]

I was playing Super Mario Sunshine about 7 years ago when I realized how much slower I was compared to Shadow Mario and the II Piantissimo guy. So I fcked around in Delfino Plaza trying to develop their 'reflexes' and realized there was a name for what I was doing, once I discovered Youtube.

[90210bandgeek]

I cant remember exactly how i was introduced. But I've been in the speedrunning community for about a year and a half.

[TLoZSR]

I think I ended up buying masterquest off of eBay, and I looked online for a guide on the game, but instead found a guide on how to beat ocarina of time using all these glitches. Ever since then I have been lurking around here.

[DannyCorvus]

The year was 2009, I stumbled across a TAS of Doom II done in 13 minutes or something (I don't remember exactly), needless to say, I was immediately interested in the idea of speedrunning Doom.
Some time later, I realized that I couldn't speedrun FPSes for shit -_-
Sometime around 2010 is when I first considered running OOT, but, upon checking ZSR and seeing how many tricks there were, I gave up (I was much less patient back then).
I moved on to Banjo-Kazooie, gave up upon realizing how difficult Rusty Bucket Bay was (still wasn't very patient).
After taking a break from speedrunning, I eventually stumbled across Pokey's run of OOT in 1:16:59, and told myself "That's it, I'm gonna get serious about running Zelda now", and, well, here I am

tl;dr tried Doom, then Zelda, then Banjo-Kazooie, gave up, discovered Pokey's run, became interested in running Zelda again.

[Gamer_Mason]

Basically all Mario. Whenever I played SMB3 or SMB, I would never take the long way. I would always go through the warps to beat the game. I didn't really try to beat any pre-existing record, but if I did it under an hour I felt okay.

Brawls BtT, I competed against a user from the SWF for a lower and lower time. I think I held the record between us on level 1 at the end, but then the official WR scores were considerably lower.

With the same user I tried to beat his SM64 time. Currently, I have 36 minutes, and he hasn't beaten it... but it's still about, twenty minutes above the current console record, so I need work there.

Everything on console btw... I don't think I've ever tried to speedrun anything else, although I'd like to try Majoras Mask once I have all the tricks down.

[Glozboy]

2006 I think. I remember taking ages to download a video that claimed to show Ocarina of Time being completed in 4h 57mins (it was the Mike Damiani run) and was blown away. I also stumbled upon the Goldeneye and Perfect Dark website (the-elite.net) which I joined and submitted times to. I sucked at that so I stopped after a while. Now I play the Mario Kart series (currently Super Mario Kart) and am on the ranking websites.

I still check this site every day for tricks and new runs (I'm specialising in +5 Boss runs at the moment). I'm planning to take my best time down below its current level of 3h 53mins.

[Pokey]

I time attacked Super Punch-Out!! my whole childhood (Some of my times are tied with the TAS's time). I also played through OoT twice a year until I was about 12. I was playing through it and realized that it got really boring. I went to gamefaqs and saw Manocheese's uber challenge. So I started playing through that and I found a glitch on my own (clipping through the ceiling in GF). I put it on YouTube along with some other small glitches I found (most already known) and apparently people from the recently started (the homepage said Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask and the pages were almost empty) Zelda community had come across the glitch that I found. I believe I found some more small glitches in OoT/MM and next thing I knew ZFG pmed me saying it was "unusual for people who weren't members of SDA to be finding new glitches". So he sent me there and at first I wanted to run MM any% SS (my favorite game) but I quickly stopped. Then I decided to do OoT any% SS and everyone on SDA said that I could never go through with it and was awful at the game. a big FUCK YOU to the guys at SDA

[Tailsko]

A few years ago, I saw a TAS of Super Metroid. It inspired me to pull the glitches off. So I practiced the glitches and got a 53 minute run.

[mzxrules]

Then I decided to do OoT any% SS and everyone on SDA said that I could never go through with it and was awful at the game. a big FUCK YOU to the guys at SDA

Have a link to that?

[Emperor91]

Started at 2005, first speedrun game was Castlevania Circle of the Moon, after that runned plenty of other games too, but never Zelda games 

I've been pretty inactive runner since 2008 summer when I started with challenge records, but try run some games in future 

Two offical WRs I have :
http://speeddemosarchive.com/CastlevaniaCotM.html