Critical Failure
What is WiKing & How Does It Work?
WiKing is a Wiki-speedrunning website designed to rank the hardest articles to reach from random starting points.
Items submitted to WiKing must first be approved by a WiKing Discord moderator.
After a moderator approves the item, it is added as a challenge.
Once five people are able to reach the wiki item, it is compared to 100th place on the leaderboard.
If it is harder than 100th place, it gets added to the leaderboard; otherwise, it is NLW (Not List Worthy) and removed from WiKing.
Run Generator
Select a starting page from today's pool
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Filter by Player
Highlight targets completed by a specific user.
Leaderboard
Player Leaderboard
Challenges
Items approved by moderators start as challenges. Once 5 different players submit runs, they are evaluated against the top 100 on the Leaderboard.
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Join the server to meet the community and discuss with moderators!
WiKing Rules
WiKing ranks how hard it is to reach each target item. Here is our official speedrunning ruleset.
Unique Routes
Only one active entry can occupy any unique pathway.
Complete Recording
You must record the run completely. The recording must cleanly start from clicking on the generated article link in **WiKing** up to reaching the target article fully loaded.
Only Content Articles
You can only click on actual English Wikipedia content articles (en.wikipedia.org).
Navigating through categories, portal pages, talk pages, help pages, or other utility namespaces is strictly banned.
Allowed Navigation Actions
The Back Button is Allowed: Using your browser's back button or history shortcuts is legal.
Link Previews are Allowed: Hover link summaries are permitted as they naturally cost precious speedrun time.
Banned Actions
- Ctrl + F (searching for text on page) is strictly prohibited.
- Disambiguation Pages are illegal stepping stones.
- External Links (coordinates, references, citations, or sister Wiki platforms) are banned.
Solvers & Banned Paths
Paths by suspended players are locked forever. Honest speedrunners cannot submit or reuse these routes. Solvers, custom style edits, or script assists result in a permanent blacklist from WiKing unless appealed.
The Leaderboard Math:
An item's overall score is the average of the fastest 25% of submitted runs.
If an item has 8 runs recorded, they are sorted ascending (fastest first):
45s, 50s, 60s, 72s, 80s, 95s, 110s, 140s
The fastest 25% represents the top 2 runs (8 * 0.25 = 2): 45s and 50s.
Their average: (45 + 50) / 2 = 47.5s becomes the leaderboard rank score.