noun Gaming Slang

routing

· noun · gaming

Working out the fastest path through a game.

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Definitions

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The brain work behind a run. Deciding the order you do everything, which items to grab, which to skip, where to risk a trick. A great route can beat raw execution.

“Half the record came from better routing, not faster fingers.”
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As a verb, to route a game is to build that plan from scratch, often the hardest part of a new run.

“Nobody has routed this game yet, so it is wide open.”
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routing In A Sentence

Half the record came from better routing, not faster fingers.
Nobody has routed this game yet, so it is wide open.

Origin & Usage

Speedrunning term from 'route'; the planning work of figuring out the optimal order of actions, pickups and skips.

Variants routerouted

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