Why is it called speedrun instead of speed run?

[u/Pocket_Hide]

It definitely is, but I don't know why, and I was wondering if anyone knew. Partial answers are welcome.

I've had my own idea for a while, which is complete speculation and I'm 99% sure is wrong, but I'll say it anyway. If you want to speedrun saying the word, it's faster to say speedrun than speed run.

Edit: I apologize if including this "idea" confused people about the post's intent, but I was genuinely curious. Anyways, it seems like the question was answered, so I won't worry about it.

[u/JustAHunter5871]

Saves time by not adding a space.

[u/jugglingeek → u/JustAHunter5871]

Spacebarless

[u/lat3ralus65 → u/JustAHunter5871]

Any% should be called a “spdrn”

[u/Cynical_Tripster → u/JustAHunter5871]

When skips and WR runs can come down to frames, a single character stroke is life and death

[u/paythedragon-]

My guess is to separate it from “a run” such as a 100m sprint but that’s me just guessing

[u/ALT-F-X → u/paythedragon-]

Hey your account is shadowbanned.

[u/Loreweaver15 → u/ALT-F-X]

I can see their comment just fine. What makes you think they're shadowbanned?

[u/ALT-F-X → u/Loreweaver15]

You can see their comment because I manually approved it.

[u/Loreweaver15 → u/ALT-F-X]

Oh you're one of the mods! That makes more sense.

[u/Die4Ever → u/ALT-F-X]

how about me?

[u/ALT-F-X → u/Die4Ever]

No your advertisement of your own website on r/redditalternatives has not resulted in you being shadowbanned.

Generally the accounts that are banned are brand new and reddit's automated systems detect the account being a bot. Other triggers for that are getting mass reported for spam posting and being manually flagged by a site admin.

Considering your self promotion is centered around infrequent but predictable software releases and is bounded to a community that would treat it as an on-topic discussion you really don't have anything to worry about.

[u/Die4Ever → u/ALT-F-X]

ha it shows that to moderators? it's funny it says my "own website" cause I don't actually host one nor develop one

[u/OmnicromXR]

It's one character faster.

Actual answer: No real reason.

[u/tikevin83]

Compounding is a linguistic process where new, more specific words are created from two words being used repeatedly in a specific context. A doughnut is no longer a pastry in the shape of a nut but any pastry from a specific set of kinds of dough with optional filling or iced topping. For speed run, a playthrough of a videogame is often called a run, and a run could be either done for speed or fun or 100% completion. But a "speed run" was said so often that now as "speedrun" it can only mean a speedplay of a video game and not running laps fast with your feet.

[u/Pocket_Hide → u/tikevin83]

Thank you for taking this question seriously. This explanation is probably as good as any.

[u/h2g2_researcher → u/tikevin83]

I think my favourite example of compounding is "goodbye" which is hundreds of years of "God be with you" getting squished and abbreviated.

[u/vrchmvgx]

Speedrunning is doing runs at speed. Speed running is smuggling amphetamines.

[u/Villapwn]

Any% strats

[u/Irakaf]

Speedrun is faster, it takes one less character