How to be good at Spelunky. (For speedrunners)

To get started, here are a few sources that might help you, and you should read right away

General Speedrunning tips by ZFG1: http://pastebin.com/NFKhPBGn

Spelunky speedrunning strats and a few extras by Latedog: http://pastebin.com/A9htHCkK

Ok, now that you've read those, i'm going to get going with the advanced strats i, or my friends, have made. I might add 1 or 2 things from latedogs pastebin, if so, i might help you understand it better.

If you are doing All Shortcuts/AS+O then this might help you a little bit. Snake Skip:

This basically skips the RNG in 0-1. If you go fast enough, and do a specific short hop off an edge, then you will be able to pass the snake on the middle layer of the level. Normally if you don't do this, you either pass him like normal, or you get bad rng and you bounce on him. This strat 100% of the time lets you pass him without bouncing. video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tYpRB_0ZU8

Another thing for all shortcuts is the Autosplitter, made by Sashavol. you can find this by downloading a timer called Livesplit (the normally used timer amongst speedrunners) at livesplit.org. once you have this set up the splits and just go to enable auto splitter. for help setting this up more, go to https://www.reddit.com/r/spelunky/comments/3x6wm4/spelunkysplitter_automatic_spelunky_splits_for/

One helpful things for eggplant speedruns is the custom save file specifically for it. basically what the purpose of it is to allow you to skip the mothership to not get the robot and instead get a hired help/other character that was spawned in the ice caves levels. The save file has all characters unlocked except the ice caves, temple and robot. to find it, go to___________ NOTE: be careful when using this because it is more rng and it also makes it so if you get a score run with this save file the robot will likely not be in the mothership, and you'll have to take a character there like on a daily.

6 tile jumps:

These often occur in the temple or hell over lava, so be careful ;) the best way to make this consistent is to whip, airwalk(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PQe0UXaYGM) a little bit off the ledge then jump on a frame where you are a little bit higher but still able to jump. i recommend practicing this a lot since it can occur in the jungle too in just random layouts.

You can also do this without the whip, but it's incredibly precise. doing it with a little hole before the jump makes it less precise but still much much less consistent than whipping. videos: by me (with hole)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd_w_JmniME

Tutorial in All Shortcuts:

It's not very hard, and is kinda the intro to the category. to watch how we do it, watch this, however be sure to implement snake skip aswell ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4mHJmV8eNY

Wrong Warp:

Wrong warp is a glitch that essentially warps you into a level that you're not supposed to be in at the time. with it you can get to level 1-2,1-3 and 1-4 and have the timer remain at 0.0 seconds. to do this you have to enter the tutorial, and go to the exit of any level you want, keeping in mind that the exit of 0-1 warps you to 1-2, 0-2 warps you to 1-3, and 0-4 warps you to 1-4. Once at the exit, Begin to leave, but on one of the last frames before beginning to load the intermission area, buffer using the journal and if you get it on one of the correct frames, you will be warped.

Black Market Low%:

To do the black market low%, you want to immedietely go down the ladder at the start of the level and go to the middle layer, then pass through to the ankh shop. once in there, grab the ankh, and climb out to the top of the ladder, but make sure not too high so that the shoppkeepers are jumping otherwise they can kill you, try to make sure your feet still touch the ladder platform. once the shopkeepers are away from you, climb up the second ladder and go to the top layer, and hope the shopkeepers have fallen down to mid or bottom layer already. then pass through and go down the left side, avoiding shopkeepers and cross the bottom to the exit. Note that you can also go accross the top layer, but it's a little slower, yet you can also get a good look at the top layout. video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQgcPhOMZaA (1:56 black market)

Black Market any%:

This can be a challenge if you're not comfortable with shopkeepers, but still do-able. First thing you do is place a bomb beside the top left shop, and move to the left so that they fall down, then take what they have in the top layer, hope for bombs and a jetpack+teleporter. then go down the right side, throw bombs in the ankh shop and kill him, and grab it, then bomb down to the bottom of the level and leave. if you have the teleporter, it's a lil harder, but faster. what you want to do is stand above the ankh, and when the shopkeeper is on the left, teleport down then up really fast and get the ankh and go out again, then move to the left, stand above the roulette prize and tp down 2 times and then go to the exit. video: with tp - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi1R09pvHGo&feature=youtu.be

without: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsuELbPzFyk&feature=youtu.be

worm:

With the teleporter, just go to the left/right side and face the inside and teleport down many times to reach the bottom, without just try to stick through the middle and go fast :P there is also another strat where you teleport out of the worm (right side only) and teleport down a bunch, making it safer since there's no enemies but bacteria there, then teleporting in at the bottom.

Teleporting into shopkeepers:

If you teleport directly down onto one normally you will zip down on to there tile instead of being above them, same with teleporting up. Though it's kind of tricky, when you're under a shopkeeper, you can actually teleport up into them if you time it right and it is suprisingly not that hard. This is very useful so be sure to try it if it ever comes up.

Score:

There's a lot to go over so here are some strats in sub sections :D

Pots: Pots can contain quite a few things, but normally only 1 of each. however if you blow it up with an explosive, you can make it give double the outcomes. This is very useful since it can basically double the score if you get perfect rng. make sure to collect all the pots on a level and put them next to a place you'll bomb

Brut Strats (named after Brutwarst):

This is called brut strats, because Brutwarst found them :P, basically you take a mattok, and dig to the bottom corner of a vault, with the shopekeeper still in it, and you hit him with the top left of the mattok until he dies, safely killing the vaultkeeper on a score run. video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eiZcTbr3OQ&feature=youtu.be&t=13m5s

Gold duping:

Not as crazy at it may sound. you simply whip as you walk into a gold pyramid and you will get 3k instead of 1.5k. it's kinda precise so don't expect it 100% of the time, but it's a nice bonus. video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5B67ag_50I (timestamp 6:56

Krille71's complete boss tutorials!

Olmec Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuelonqSDQI

Yama Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yCNjo7Nayc

YamaYamaDingDong's score run FAQ: http://pastebin.com/dGmHXcJ6

Israel Blargh's Altar Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5l7YFqzq50

Israel Blargh's Advanced Strats tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYt2DEqzbN4

If you are new to speedrunning spelunky, be sure to remember that it is fine to die, everyone does, and probably more than you imagine. Be sure to play a lot and practice new things regularly. Good Luck!