The Awesome Games Done Quick crowd reacts with glee as the Super Mario World “total control” exploit is demonstrated live for the first time at AGDQ 2014, the kind of moment that’s best experienced live. (credit: TASVideos / AGDQ)

As my colleague Sam already highlighted, this year’s Awesome Games Done Quick charity marathon is now in full swing with a full week of live video game speedruns from a ballroom in Herndon, Virginia. The correct course of action, in light of this information, is to take the entire week off from work and sit in front of a Twitch-enabled screen for hundreds of hours straight, watching a stream of players talk their way through some extremely quick video game play-throughs.

If you can’t stay glued to the screen for the entire week, though, you might still want to make time to check out a few of the most interesting runs scheduled for the charity marathon. We’ve combed through the schedule and picked out a few highlights that we think you should watch, either live or via the AGDQ archives.

Though we could have listed practically the entire schedule in a list like this, we forced ourselves to a limit of at most two runs per day, so as not to inundate your busy schedule. We’ve included some example video from previous speedruns below, but the real fun of AGDQ comes from watching the games performed live, with running commentary and the excitement of not knowing what will happen.