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Community-made plugins that automatically detect in-game events and split the timer at precise moments without human input.
Autosplitters hook into game memory to detect specific events — entering a room, defeating a boss, loading a specific cutscene — and signal the timer to split automatically. They remove human reaction delay from split accuracy, making segment comparisons more precise. LiveSplit's autosplitter ecosystem is vast, with community-made scripts for hundreds of games, and they are often the first thing a serious runner installs.
Example
LiveSplit's autosplitters cover nearly every popular speedgame. Dark Souls autosplitters are highly sophisticated, detecting exact boss-death flags. Factorio's autosplitter triggers on specific research completion. Celeste's autosplitter tracks level transitions within frames.
Why it matters
Autosplitters are the invisible infrastructure of modern speedrunning. Without them, leaderboards would have much worse segment data, and comparing runs across runners would be far messier. They are a quiet community-built engineering achievement.
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