Big Walk Speedrun: World Record, Categories and the Skip Glitch

What the item-clipping trick actually does

The technique behind every fast Unrestricted run is the same one: continuously drop and pick back up a carried item — runners commonly use the light orb from the opening area — while walking and jumping in a specific rhythm. Done correctly, it launches the player upward and lets them glide forward well past the height and speed normal movement allows.

That height is enough to clear terrain, fences and the big green Wall that normally gates the back half of the island, and to clip through the walls of the final puzzle tower entirely. A run using it goes from a fresh save to the ending credits by flying over content rather than solving it, which is why it is treated as a distinct category rather than folded into a single leaderboard.

This is a game-side movement quirk, not a save-corrupting exploit or a multiplayer cheat that affects other players — it works because carried items and jump momentum interact in a way the physics did not anticipate, the same category of trick that exists in most physics-driven 3D games.

Why there are two leaderboards

Unrestricted allows the item-clip and any other glitch; times there measure how fast a runner can exploit the physics, and records have fallen from over an hour to single-digit minutes as the technique was refined. Glitchless bans out-of-bounds movement and clipping, so those runs actually traverse the island, solve the puzzles that gate progress, and look much closer to a fast normal playthrough.

Both categories exist because Big Walk has no built-in speedrun timer or category selector — speedrun.com moderators define and enforce the rules, the same as for most games without native support. If a leaderboard time looks implausible next to how long the guides on this site say the game takes, check which category it was run in before assuming either number is wrong.

Does the trick work on every platform?

Runners built and demonstrated the technique on PC with keyboard input, and some rebind keys specifically to make the drop-and-jump timing easier to repeat. Community reports from PS5 players describe attempts at the same idea with mixed success, so treat the trick as PC-proven and console-uncertain rather than assuming it transfers directly to a controller.

Should you try it on a normal playthrough?

Not if the point of your session is the game everyone else is describing. Big Walk is built around slow travel, proximity voice and puzzles that need two people in two places — flying over the entire island with a movement glitch skips essentially all of that on the way to credits nobody in your group will feel earned. Treat it as a separate, competitive activity, the way the leaderboard community itself does, rather than a shortcut for a first run.

If your group wants speed without the glitch, the honest lever is coordination, not exploits: an experienced host who already knows every route, a fixed division of roles before starting, and skipping side content. That gets a fast Glitchless-style clear without touching the physics trick at all.