Hello,

I am Buffet Time, a prominent member of the Hotline Miami speedrunning community, and I'm making this guide as a way for people to learn how to speedrun this game. The majority of this guide is links to other resources and not really in-depth text tutorials.

Feel free to add me on Steam (as long as your profile is not private) and ask me any questions!

This section include a few important and useful links with brief descriptions.


This link is to the Hotline Miami speedrun.com leaderboards which contains links to a lot of very useful videos and VODs as well as the runs ranked in order and by category.
Hotline Miami Leaderboards[www.speedrun.com]

This link is an invite to the current Hotline Miami Speedrunning Discord which encapsulates both games and future mods/ games. Do note there is sometimes sh*tposting but behind the memey exterior we are very nice and helpful bunch of people. Feel free to join and ask any questions you want!
Hotline Miami Speedrunning Discord[discord.gg]

This link brings you to a Google Sheets spreadsheet which contains a lot of Hotline Miami data created by Snowfats.
General Hotline Miami data spreadsheet[docs.google.com]

This link brings you to a spreadsheet which explains how and where to get all the masks and puzzles pieces in the game, great for the Get All Masks category created by Snowfats and myself.
Hotline Miami Get All Masks Category spreadsheet[docs.google.com]

This is a very in-depth (nearly 5 hours) video guide done by Snowfats[www.twitch.tv]
The video is time-stamped for every level.

NG+ All Levels Leaderboards[www.speedrun.com]

This is a very in-depth (nearly 3 hours) video guide done by Buffet Time[www.twitch.tv].
The video is time-stamped for every level.

NG Any% Leaderboards[www.speedrun.com]

Link to a Playlist of individual level tutorials by Buffet Time
Includes: decadence skip, neighbors skip, trauma, fun&games, prank call skip, resolution, and a near perfect safehouse (not tut but try to emulate)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcTA1ZNLMEU&list=PLdS19NhjY7iAwx1jVFmNkFFLF02AuxoJs&index=1

These are the current World Record runs in the various categories. (as of 2/2/2020)


NG+ All Levels
Jackintoshh's[www.twitch.tv] NG+ All Levels 22:55 World Record

NG Any%
Jackintoshh's[www.twitch.tv] NG Any% 15:24 World Record
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/358487622

NG+ Any%
Urinstein[www.twitch.tv] NG+ Any% 16:34 World Record

All Masks
Snowfats'[www.twitch.tv] All Masks 23:03 World Record

NG+ Any% TAS
NG+ Any% TAS done by Buffet Time[www.twitch.tv] in 16:36.43
NG+ Any% is the fastest category. (old TAS)

Sum of Best
This is a comparison between the 4 of the top times at the time. Great video to watch the difference between Duke and CFBs late 2013 runs vs the mid to late 2015 runs.
This was created by Moofin[www.twitch.tv].

This.


That's all.