In the modern Banjo speedrunning scene, Trep has become the name most closely tied to pushing the Xbox version of Banjo-Kazooie to its limits. His 100 percent Furnace Fun Moves runs on Xbox Live Arcade have repeatedly lowered the world record barrier, including a series of sub two hour completions that reshaped expectations for the console. Along the way he has built a reputation for handling pressure in live tournaments, moderating and grinding smaller games with hundreds of submitted runs, and serving as one of the clearest examples of a modern specialist who still enjoys quirky side projects.
Trep’s public profiles describe him simply as a Banjo-Kazooie speedrunner and Geometry Dash player, which matches what viewers see when they open his Twitch channel or social feeds. The archive behind that line shows a runner who has treated Banjo-Kazooie on Xbox as both a main event and a long term lab.
Finding a Home in Banjo-Kazooie
The most visible part of Trep’s legacy sits on the Banjo-Kazooie leaderboards for the Xbox category. One of his early documented benchmarks is a 100 percent FFM run in 2 hours 7 minutes 55 seconds on Xbox One, verified on Speedrun dot com around four years ago. It is no longer the top time and is even flagged as obsolete, but as an early verified run in the category it marks the point where he moved from simply playing the port to seriously competing on the global stage.
The 100 percent FFM label is important. In Banjo routing, Furnace Fun Moves is a glitch setup that creates a file where Banjo starts the run with every move learned from Bottles, rather than unlocking them in the early worlds. Guides and community explanations describe how the glitch is normally prepared on a completed file and then carried into a fresh save, and how the community separates “100 percent FFM” from “100 percent No FFM” to distinguish runs that use that setup from those that play the game as intended. The Xbox leaderboards preserve that split, and Trep chose to live in the camp that leans fully into the glitch.
From his earliest posted times he aimed high. While Nintendo 64 runners pushed 100 percent FFM down toward the mid one hour 50s range, the Xbox community had its own race against load times, new glitches and the constraints of a different platform. Trep put in the grind required to translate those discoveries into runs that could stand beside their N64 counterparts in terms of execution, even if the leaderboards remained version specific.
Breaking Two Hours and Refining the Route
The real turning point for Trep’s legacy came when his 100 percent FFM runs on Xbox dropped below two hours. By the early twenty twenties, his runs were drawing enough attention that fellow runner Azmi produced a long form analysis video titled “Banjo-Kazooie Speedrun Analysis number nine: Trep Xbox 100 percent WR (1:59:43),” breaking down his world record line by line for other runners to study. Around the same period, Trep’s own YouTube uploads documented the route evolution, including a “Banjo-Kazooie 100 percent in 1:59:43 FWR [XBLA]” video and later an even faster “Banjo-Kazooie 100 percent in 1:58:42 [XBLA].”
Those times did not appear in a vacuum. The community had already spent years refining the FFM setup, discovering how to use misaligned loads and the pause overlap glitch on Xbox, and debating where the glitch should sit in the category structure. Trep’s contribution came in treating those tools as a platform for consistent high level play rather than a novelty. His record runs are characterized by stable early splits, a willingness to reset aggressively for strong openings, and a clear familiarity with how to keep pace through the longest worlds where the game tends to wear runners down.
SpeedStats, an independent project that assigns comparative scores to world record runs across many games and categories, lists “Banjo-Kazooie: Xbox – 100 percent FFM, Trep” in its rankings, placing his record among a large catalog of top tier speedruns from other titles. It is only a single line on a long page, but it underscores that his work on this route is recognized outside the Banjo scene itself.
Live World Records and PACE Tournament Pressure
Much of Trep’s reputation comes not just from his times but from how he achieved them. In 2023, posts on Reddit and social media highlighted him breaking the Xbox 100 percent world record during a live tournament match, with one widely shared thread titled “Banjo-Kazooie speedrunner Trep breaks the Xbox 100 percent world record during a live tournament match.” Another post in r slash speedrun captured a race at PACE with the headline “TREP GETS WORLD RECORD LIVE AT PACE. INSANE CLUTCH,” followed by comments noting that it was not even his first time achieving a sub two hour run in a tournament setting.
PACE is an in person speedrun convention organized by the Global Speedrun Association, built around live races, charity and competition. The schedule for PACE Fall 2023 shows a Banjo-Kazooie 100 percent tournament block featuring multiple runners, including Trep, in a dedicated race slot. Banjo community accounts on social media later reposted a “Trep profile” graphic praising his new world record at PACE and thanking the organizers for hosting the event.
Those runs hardened his image as a player who can deliver full game personal bests and world records under stage lights, with cameras running and bracket standings on the line. It is one thing to route a perfect theoretical path. It is another to keep that route intact when the entire room knows exactly what split you are chasing.
Category Depth: Trotless and Specialized Challenges
Beyond full game records, Trep has also left marks in narrower Banjo categories. On the Xbox leaderboards for the Trotless category, which forbids Talon Trot and forces creative routing around one of the game’s most central movement options, he holds a first place time of 10 minutes 16 seconds real time and 10 minutes 5 seconds in game. His run notes talk about imperfect segments and dreams of shaving a few more seconds, which fits the broader pattern of a runner who treats every route as something that can always be made cleaner.
The presence of both 100 percent FFM world records and outlying categories like Trotless on his profile paints a picture of someone who enjoys stress testing a game’s systems from multiple angles. The same mechanical comfort that lets him keep calm at the end of a two hour race also shows up in ten minute challenge categories that ask for nearly perfect execution from the first input.
Microgames, Moderation and Side Projects
Although Banjo-Kazooie is clearly Trep’s main stage, his Speedrun dot com activity shows a fascination with smaller or less obvious projects. On the Google Snake Category Extensions board he has an orphaned entry for a 69 apples run completed in 38.1 seconds, sitting in a niche leaderboard for a browser game most people only see as a hidden search feature. In the web game Laminate Pieces he is listed with more than seven hundred submitted runs, making up a large share of the game’s total run count while holding a second place time of 37.233 seconds in the “All Easy” category.
He has also invested in Roblox based platforming and racing. On the leaderboards for Sonic Speed Simulator he is both a runner and a super moderator, with an obsolete but documented tenth place run of 39.8 seconds in the “Green Hill: All Obbies” category and game statistics that show more than four hundred runs submitted under his watch. That combination of volume and administrative responsibility suggests someone who cares about building and maintaining communities, not just chasing times.
These side projects are not as historically weighty as his Banjo records, but they matter for understanding his profile. They show a runner who enjoys short form optimization and who is willing to take on the less glamorous work of moderating leaderboards, writing rules and checking submissions for other players.
Tournament Culture and the Banjo Community
Trep’s appearances in Banjo specific tournaments help place him inside a wider culture that has grown around the game. The BanjoRace channel on Twitch, for example, has hosted “Banjo-Kazooie Nuts and Bolts Tourney Race 1: Trep vs DeDeLux” and other community races, giving runners structured competition beyond solo attempts. Racetime dot gg race rooms involving Banjo 100 percent show him as one of many names grinding through multi hour group races that act as both practice and spectacle.
Within that context, his world records at PACE and in online tournaments do not stand alone. They are part of a feedback loop where each new time sets a target for the rest of the field, and where community members gather on Discord, in analysis videos and in forum threads to pick apart strategy and execution. Azmi’s breakdown of his 1:59:43 run is only one example of how his gameplay has been turned into teaching material for others.
Style, Personality and Presence
Because much of Trep’s work is documented through VODs and clips, viewers can see not only his lines through the game but also his demeanor. His Twitch page identifies him straightforwardly as a Banjo-Kazooie speedrunner with a modest but dedicated follower count, and his clips catalog shows a mix of personal best reactions and jokes about how often he lives in test rooms and savestates. On social media he presents as a typical member of the modern speedrunning scene, thanking tournament organizers, celebrating friends’ achievements and posting occasional highlights such as the PACE world record.
His YouTube uploads under the TrepBK name reflect the same tone. Titles like “Banjo-Kazooie 100 percent in 1:58:42 [XBLA]” or “Banjo-Kazooie 100 percent in 1:59:43 FWR [XBLA]” are functional and direct, focused on documenting the time rather than building a personality brand around it. That catalog, together with the external analysis and Reddit threads, gives future historians a clear trail to follow when reconstructing how the Xbox 100 percent route evolved.
Legacy in the Banjo and Collectathon Speedrunning Scene
In an era where many speedrunners jump quickly between games and categories, Trep stands out as one of the clearest examples of deep specialization on a single version of a single game. His focus on Xbox Banjo-Kazooie 100 percent FFM has produced a sequence of world record runs that brought the category under two hours, then pushed it further, and did so not only in offline sessions but in front of live event audiences.
At the same time, his moderation work on smaller games, his vast library of runs in titles like Laminate Pieces and Sonic Speed Simulator, and his presence in tournaments and race channels show that his contribution to speedrunning is broader than a single leaderboard entry. For players who enter the Banjo community in the mid twenty twenties, his name is part of the core set of references they encounter when learning how the Xbox categories work and what “top level Banjo-Kazooie play” looks like.
As new runners continue to challenge his times and as PACE and other live events spotlight fresh faces, Trep’s position in the history of Banjo-Kazooie speedrunning is already secure. He is the runner whose Xbox 100 percent FFM records defined an era, whose tournament performances proved that those times could survive under lights and crowd noise, and whose side projects quietly show how much he simply enjoys the act of going fast.