Here will be listed what is allowed or banned in the Standard racing ruleset, along with examples, an explanation, or a justification where necessary.
Allowed
- Any accidental glitch which does not grant the player an advantage is okay
- Any technique required by the settings of the randomizer is allowed
- Savewarping
- Deathwarping
- Voiding to reset Link’s position
- Jumpslashing while mid-air for more distance
- Jumpslashing against walls for recoil
- Attacking to collect or hit an object on the other side of collision
- Power Crouch Stabbing
- Broken Deku Stick
- Damaging Volvagia’s second hitbox
- Crossing the Haunted Wasteland without Longshot or Hover Boots
- Rolling from blue switches to open doors
- Momentary Antigravity
- EG: B1 Skip in Deku Tree, going to the alcove in Forest Temple Block Room
- Cucco Jump in Zora’s River or Gerudo Valley
- NB: Entering Gerudo's Fortress as child is banned unless otherwise in logic per the settings
- Damage Buffering
- Invincibility Frame Abuse
- This including passing through flame walls and opening flaming chests
- Backflip over Mido in the Lost Woods as Adult
- Flame Storage
- Schrodinger’s Chain
- This is the act of culling the drawbridge to the castle so that it no longer updates its collision. It's also gotten the affectionate name "cat chain" by the community.
- Twisted sidehops/backflips
- Recoil Jump
- This is the act of shielding damage midair to reset Link's animation, usually in order to grab a ledge
- Ground Jump
- NB: it is disallowed to Ground Jump off of the fake ground created by the Hover Boots
- Hookshotless Gerudo Training Grounds
- Hookshot extension
- See below for a caveat
- Passing through the back side of one-sided collision
- EG: the bottom of the bridge in Kokiri Forest, Darunia’s door, Song of Time block in Forest, Impa’s House ledge
- Backflipping through the spikes in the spike room of Shadow Temple
- Getting grabbed or thrown into collectibles such as GS tokens or Silver Rupees
- Swimming with Iron Boots
- Opening underwater chests while wearing Iron Boots and completing the Diving in the Lab with Iron Boots