> I don't think there are any speedrunners who can be expected to give a frame-perfect response to an unexpected event.
This is the reason why tool-assisted speedruns are faster than speedruns without a tool. TASBot (a great thing to search for fun videos from Awesome Games Done Quick) certainly can react within a single frame, every time.
Humans generally rely on cues usually called a "setup" do to these.
That's funny, I've watched many speedruns, both RTA and TAS, and thought about the reaction time issue a bit, but never fully articulated this important difference to myself. Thanks for putting it so clearly!
This is the reason why tool-assisted speedruns are faster than speedruns without a tool. TASBot (a great thing to search for fun videos from Awesome Games Done Quick) certainly can react within a single frame, every time.
Humans generally rely on cues usually called a "setup" do to these.