Super Street Fighter IV

PATIENCE is key, be prepared to see a lot of loading screens.

Recommended settings:

Medium
1 round
99 seconds (Extremely beneficial, DO NOT pick 30 seconds or even 60, if you do you may need to replace your controller(s))
Bonus Stages OFF
Match Request OFF

Pick your best character, or Zangief. I personally used Zangief because I'm shameless when fighting CPUs. Although it's hard to resist pile-driving your opponents over and over the amount of damage to the amount of time spent in the animation makes it very inefficient for this achievement; the reason you would want to use Zangief is purely for Lariat abuse against the CPU; Flying Body Press (optional) -> Lariat -> Lariat -> Lariat etc. all the way through arcade will eventually get you a quick win against any and all opponents, especially Seth.

The most important thing to know when going for this achievement is that it's OK to lose a round and continue! If you fail to pummel your opponent before the 78 second mark (finishing with 79 seconds left is the absolute latest you can win a match to remain eligible) just keeping walking straight into the CPU and let them finish you off, pick your character again and keep going at it. If you pick any amount of time LESS than 99 you're not doing yourself any favors, should you fail to kill your opponent in less than 20 seconds one of the rounds you will want to to give as much time as possible to the CPU to poke you to death, especially if you're using a character with high vitality such as Zangief. The last thing you want to do is accidentally win by time running out.

It may take many tries for any CPU to co-operate and you may have to waste precious seconds of time blocking/avoiding ultra maneuvers but unless your opponent is stunned always use caution when approaching them or attacking after they sustain enough damage to unleash an ultra because the amount of time it would take for the animation to finish and for you to reposition yourself is always longer than it would take to just sit back and block/avoid it. Obviously, prior experience will help greatly in knowing exactly what you need to look out for, for example if you're fighting Ryu or Dhalsim with their U1 and you're Lariat spamming just keep at it relentlessly, you should have no worries considering you'll spin right through their projectile and land another hit on them.

If you get your opponent very near death and with only a second left to spare don't panic and just do yourself a favor, throw the match in their favor and try again. If you ended up accidentally chipping an opponent even a second late you'd effectively nullify your eligibility for the achievement and you'd have to do everything over again.


Also, although I don't recommend it and it isn't necessary you can switch characters after continuing at will and still get the achievement. The only practical use is if you're having trouble beating a particular character in time (such as T. Hawk and his massive vitality gauge) you can switch characters, lose, then switch back to your original choice and you should be facing an entirely different person while still maintaining your wins/time up to that point.


If you've got the patience it's a very simple achievement to get, happy hunting.

OK, to confirm a few people that have mentioned it:

It counts an average time - so not ALL rounds have to be less than 20 seconds.

i went through the first 7 battles in an average time of about 17 seconds (83 seconds left on counter most of the time).

When I fought Seth I defeated him with 68 seconds left on the counter and the achievement popped up...

So I guess I could of actually defeated him in 41 seconds (20 + 3seconds x 7rds).

This should help a lot of people with this achievement as Seth is very hard to beat in under 20 seconds!

This is the Video I made on how to get the Achievement Speed Freak for Super Street Fighter IV. (Sorry for the obvious as I'm posting in the area to submit tutorials for this achievement but I have to use at least 25 words or TA won't let me submit)

This achievement seems to be glitchy... but in a good way. People have been unlocking this by beating random people under 20 seconds, or beating everyone up to seth in 20 seconds and beating him under 20 on a different playthrough, so it is hard to say exactly what will unlock the achievement for you, but if you follow my guide you should be fine.

TIME:99 just incase your other controller dies
DIFFICULTY:MEDIUM
ROUNDS:1
CHARACTER:BLANKA

Reason for blanka is his (when on the left) heavy down right punch. What this will do is cause you to slide under any projectile, also you will land the 1st attack of the match every time. Once you have them down either keep tapping punch for his electric attack or use another down right heavy punch. When your EX gauge has 1 blue square, do an EX electric attack by tapping A on 2 or more punch buttons, or set a button to light-mid-heavy punch all in one.

When it comes to seth... I did it EXACTLY like this.

1st.forward-down heavy punch (slide attack)
2nd. FOCUS ATTACK all the way charged (mid punch+mid kick or set it as a button)
3rd. FOCUS ATTACK
4th. FOCUS ATTACK
5th. FOCUS ATTACK... lol
6th. forward-down heavy punch (slide attack)
7th. EX electric attack AND HOLD THIS ATTACK

it will take some luck beating seth but it can be done... Took me about 30 tries and finished it in 19 seconds, its a close one. If he grapples you at all, restart. He blocks a ton to, thats the reason your going to want to use the focus attacks.



SIDENOTES:

1.USE A SECOND CONTROLLER if you don't get it in the 1st 20 seconds

2.When fighting a second controller, you DO NOT have to kill it within 20 seconds, take as long as you want. It isn't counted toward the achievement.

3.WHEN YOU FINALLY GET TO AKUMA JUST FAIL! He does not count toward the achievement, that's one less fight to worry about.

please rate positive if this helped.

This one didn't take me too long, here's what I did...

(1) Pick 1 round, 99 seconds, medium difficulty
(2) Pick Zangief (for his Double Lariat "DL")
(3) Flying Body Press (Jump Forward, D+HP) -> Double Lariat (3Punches).
- if blocked, then immediately perform another DL.
- if you knocked the CPU down with the DL, then crossup with your Flying Body Press as the CPU is getting up and DL again.
(4) If you fail to kill the CPU by the 79 second mark, then STOP immediately! (cuz you don't want to accidentally kill the CPU after the 79 sec mark). Pick up your 2nd controller and join in the game. Kill player 2 (NOT required to be done in 20 sec) and then fight the CPU again, there's going to be some luck involved, you'll just have to keep trying.
(5) If your CPU is Cammy, you're screwed, she's a hard Zangief counter, so I don't think it's possible to beat her within 20 seconds, you might as well end the game and start over and hope you don't get her.
(6) vs Seth, this only took me about 5 tries. What you DON'T want to do is Flying Body Press (or even jump). All you need is straight up DL. Now here's the trick, once you knock him down with the first DL, DO NOT perform a DL while he's getting up, because if you do, he will most likely block & counter. Instead move back a bit, just slightly outside the DL range and wait. As he's getting up perform a Foward+DL (so that your DL will move towards him), now because you're slightly out of DL range to begin with, your first 1/2 spin of the DL won't even touch him, but then as you're moving towards him with your DL, it will connect and he usually will not block. I was able to do this again and again and kill him within 20 secs (he didn't even perform his Ultra). Timing is everything!
(7) vs Akuma, he doesn't count for this achievement, so just let him kill you.

Just got this achievement using Zippomatt's method, and that first word is imperative: PATIENCE! (KrakilinX also gives very useful tips- Thanks for the helpful suggestions guys! There's no way I could have done it without help.)

I'm not a good SFIV player so I worked through with Ken/Ryu and Zangief. With Ken/Ryu I threw everything at the CPU, milking the jumping hard punch that cancels into a few small combos. If you're disciplined enough to time hadokens and shoryukens properly and block ultras and throws then this method can be quite effective.

On failing (see Zippomatt's guide above) I selected Zangief and spammed his double lariat.

The most difficult parts were, predictably, the rival battle and final fight with Seth. I used Zangief for those, trying to land jump+HP then LP+MP+HP until the opponent's ULTRA bar was ready, then used LK+MK+HK because the recovery's quicker. This did mean that I had to cross my fingers and hope the CPU didn't land any throws in the meantime. Took a long time to do, taking breaks when I felt I was going to lose my temper.

On a side-note, I almost wish I hadn't bothered with this achievement - it's absurdly frustrating to obtain and was no fun at all when I had to resort to cheap Zangief tactics, and took a good couple of hours to do. After all, as I said before I'm not a good SFIV player!