Elisa “elisamiau” is an Argentinian speedrunner whose name has become tightly woven into the history of A Hat in Time. On the leaderboards she is best known for world class play in Any% Lagless and long, punishing categories like 110% and All Time Pieces. Away from individual runs she has spent years helping shape rules, tools, and documentation that keep the game’s competitive scene coherent as it grows more intricate.
On Speedrun.com and in community spaces she appears not only as a top runner but as a super moderator, guide author, spreadsheet keeper, and technical toolmaker. Together those roles make her less a one-game specialist and more a steward of how A Hat in Time is actually run, recorded, and remembered.
Early Presence In Speedrunning
Public traces of elisamiau’s speedrunning life reach back to the late 2010s. In a long-running Speedrun.com forum thread asking about runners from different countries, she appears under the Argentina flag, noting that she does not see many active speedrunners from her country and wishing for a larger local community. The post lists her pronouns as she/her and situates her as part of a small but visible Argentinian speedrunning scene that was still finding itself in those years.
That moment captures something important about her trajectory. From early on she is not only playing games quickly but thinking about communities, geography, and who gets seen. In the years that follow, the places where her name shows up most often are not only on leaderboards but in the infrastructure around them.
Finding A Home In A Hat in Time
A Hat in Time is a compact 3D platformer with enough movement tech and routing oddities to keep runners busy for years. The Speedrun.com board for the game lists Any%, All Time Pieces, 110 percent routes, category extensions, and a sprawling set of individual levels and workshop stages. It is an ecosystem that did not spring fully formed from the moment of release. It had to be built.
Within that ecosystem, elisamiau emerges as one of the central names. On the main A Hat in Time board, the category extensions board, and the Workshop board she is consistently listed as a super moderator alongside a small group of other leaders. Moderation here is not a cosmetic badge. It means helping define categories, enforcing timing rules, maintaining resources, and verifying a steady stream of submissions in both main game and modded content.
That visibility on the staff side mirrors her growth as a runner. Over time her own runs shift from strong leaderboard entries into the kind of benchmark times that influence how others approach the game.
Pushing Any% Lagless To New Limits
Any% Lagless is the flagship full-game category for current-patch PC runs, built around fixed timing and restrictions designed to keep the playing field level across hardware and versions. In that category elisamiau has steadily pushed the world record downward through a string of documented personal bests.
On her YouTube channel she has uploaded several A Hat in Time Any% Lagless runs, including personal bests in the mid-34-minute range that chart the arc of her improvement. These videos show the evolution of her routing and execution, from early world record contenders into cleaner, more aggressive lines that cut seconds off movement through Mafia Town, Subcon Forest, Alpine Skyline, and Nyakuza Metro.
That progression culminates, for now, in a 33 minute 45.720 second Any% Lagless run on PC, listed in early 2026 as first place on the Speedrun.com leaderboard. The entry notes that the run was completed on the DLC 2 with mods version under fixed timing and verified within the same moderation team she helps lead.
To the outside viewer the record is a tight, controlled sprint through the game’s main route. To other runners it also functions as a living document of optimal movement on the current patch, with individual splits and strats often copied into practice sessions and comparison layouts.
Long Categories And Endurance Play
Any% times alone would already make elisamiau a name to watch, but her catalog of A Hat in Time runs extends into the long, draining categories that demand both technical precision and mental endurance.
One prominent example is a 110 percent Lag Abuse run clocking in at three hours 24 minutes 55.570 seconds, recorded on PC and listed on Speedrun.com as an obsolete but historically significant time. The leaderboard entry ties that run to the CDLC 1 version of the game and again shows her dual role as both runner and staff within the same community she helps administrate.
Taken together, her long-category work illustrates a willingness to engage with A Hat in Time at its most exhaustive. These marathons of routing and execution deepen her authority when she later writes guides or helps refine rules that affect every segment of the game.
Guides, Spreadsheets, And Technical Tools
If you follow links off the A Hat in Time leaderboard into the Guides and Resources tabs, elisamiau’s name appears again, this time not as a runner but as an author. She is credited with two central documents: the “Community Golds Sheet,” a shared spreadsheet of best known segment times, and “Main Categories WR Progression,” a guide that tracks how world records have shifted over time in the core categories.
The Community Golds Sheet functions as both a practice tool and a historical ledger. It allows runners to compare their own splits against the fastest known segments and encourages incremental improvement, while also quietly preserving a record of who first broke particular barriers in key stages. In that sense, elisamiau is not just running A Hat in Time. She is curating the way other runners understand its limits.
Her contributions extend further into technical tools listed on the Resources page. She is coauthor of utilities such as File Time Editor and IGT Restorer, which help manage in-game time behavior and save file nuances that matter for consistent timing across versions. She also appears on multi-author projects like Hat Patcher and RTA ILs Leaderboards, which streamline patch management and individual level tracking for the community.
These tools and guides are not glamorous, but they are essential. They underpin the integrity of the leaderboard, keep categories coherent through patch changes, and create shared reference points for runners who might never meet in person.
Moderator, Verifier, And Community Steward
On the practical side of community governance, elisamiau’s name appears repeatedly in moderation and verification logs. Speedrun.com listings for A Hat in Time, its Category Extensions, and the Workshop board all mark her as a super moderator, indicating elevated responsibility for managing rules, categories, and staff.
Individual run pages capture this stewardship in miniature. For example, a high-profile All Time Pieces Lagless run by Doka lists her as the staff member who submitted the run to the board, while another moderator verified it. In other entries she appears as both runner and super moderator. Together they show a quiet rhythm of behind-the-scenes work, where she helps ensure that records are properly logged, rules are followed, and disputes can be handled within a consistent framework.
She is also listed among the moderators on the official A Hat in Time Discord thread, linking her online identity to the game’s central community hub. That position places her at the heart of routing discussions, rule questions, and the day-to-day support that keeps new runners from bouncing off an increasingly complex ruleset.
On The Marathon Stage
In 2026 the work she had been doing for years inside the A Hat in Time community reached a broader audience through Games Done Quick. During Awesome Games Done Quick 2026 the schedule featured an Any% Lagless run of A Hat in Time performed by Doka, with elisamiau and afterimage listed as the commentators on the official run details page.
The run’s slot on the marathon drew spectators who might never have sought out A Hat in Time content on their own. On the GDQ VOD index and associated community threads, viewers could revisit the performance and, by extension, the commentary that made sense of rapid movement, risky strats, and patch-specific quirks for a general audience.
During that same event, a one hundred dollar donation under her handle appeared on the tracker, directed toward the character choice incentive for the A Hat in Time run. In the message she playfully teased Doka about preventing him from “bopping” her personal best before adding a more serious note about how much the hat speedrun community had improved since his arrival in 2017, calling him her goat. The comment is an affectionate snapshot of how she sees her peers and the history they share, and it preserves her own role as both competitor and supporter within that circle.
For the broader marathon audience, the key point is simpler. By the time A Hat in Time returned to GDQ on the main stage, elisamiau was one of the voices trusted to explain it.
Representation And Community Roots
That older forum remark about not seeing many active speedrunners from Argentina still resonates when read against her later prominence. In a thread full of playful national rivalries and multilingual banter she appears as one of the earliest self-identified Argentinian runners on the site, hoping for a larger homegrown community.
Years later, her handle sits on the front page of A Hat in Time leaderboards, in guide credits, and on a GDQ marathon schedule watched by hundreds of thousands of viewers. For aspiring runners from the same country, especially those who see themselves in her pronouns and online presence, that visibility matters. It quietly answers the question she once posed: yes, there are speedrunners from here, and yes, they help run the games you love.
Legacy In The A Hat in Time Scene
Speedrunning legacies are built out of more than just world records. In elisamiau’s case they include an Any% Lagless record that defines the modern ceiling of fast play, long-form categories that demonstrate endurance and curiosity, shared spreadsheets that map out community best segments, and technical tools that keep in-game timing honest across patches.
They also include the quieter labor of moderation: verifying runs, answering questions, and preserving the routes that future runners will study. When viewers open the GDQ VOD of A Hat in Time’s 2026 marathon appearance, they hear her commentary without necessarily knowing how much of the run’s underlying structure she helped build.
For the history of A Hat in Time speedrunning, that dual role is what makes her stand out. Elisa “elisamiau” is not only one of the strongest players the game has seen. She is one of the people who turned a charming platformer into a fully realized speedrun discipline, complete with records, documentation, and a community that can keep pushing long after any single world record is gone.