Darting in Grace on Roblox is an advanced movement technique that converts vertical velocity into massive horizontal speed by chaining power slides with wall kicks off walls and doorframes. Executed correctly, darting allows players to skip entire breaker rooms, bypass hazardous floor hazards, and outrun threatening entities like Carnation and Slugfish.
Essential Settings Before Darting
High-level Grace movement demands rapid alternating inputs and precise camera alignment. Top speedrunners recommend tweaking internal game settings before attempting to practice darting:
- Sprint Toggle: Turn this OFF. Sprint toggle adds keyboard clutter and prevents sprintless sliding, shrimping, and precise power slide cutoffs.
- Crouch Keybind: Set crouch to Left Click (or bind a scroll wheel to crouch via external remapping software such as X-Mouse Button Control for non-major-glitch speedruns). Left click allows rapid crouching inputs with minimal latency.
- Sprint Keybind: Set sprinting to a key that is easy to alternate with crouch, such as Right Click or Left Shift.
- Camera Headlock & Tilting: Disable both in advanced settings. Camera tilting and headlock distort alignment when aiming for narrow door arches and wall kick surfaces.
- Visual Clutter: Turn off speed lines, camera shake, and visible limbs. Enable Propless mode and the Speedrun Timer for improved frame rates and clearer visual feedback.
How to Dart on PC: Step-by-Step
Darting is not a single button press; it is a sequence composed of three individual techniques: trimping (gaining upward momentum), power sliding, and slide-wall jumping.
- Gain Initial Height (Trimping/Crimping): Power slide into a low obstacle that wedges you upward, such as a stair corner, a room lip, or a door trim, and jump right before contact. This launches your character high into the air.
- Execute a Power Slide: While moving, sprint and crouch, then immediately release the sprint key while holding crouch. Releasing sprint removes the game's default sprint speed soft cap, allowing you to maintain significantly higher velocity.
- Wall Kick: While airborne, collide with a wall or door edge and press your jump key. The game converts your vertical momentum directly into horizontal velocity, creating the forward burst known as a dart.
- Bunnyhop on Door Arches to Reset Kicks: By default, your character only has two wall kicks (four when wearing Crampons). When flying through rooms, slide-walljump or land across the upper frame of door arches. Hitting the top of a door frame acts as a bunnyhop that replenishes your wall kicks, letting you continue darting across consecutive rooms without ever touching the floor.
- Control Your Speed: Gaining excessive vertical speed before a dart can cause you to overshoot rooms or clip out of bounds. To slow down or stabilize your trajectory, release your slide key mid-air or dart out of a standard slide rather than a power slide.
How to Dart on Mobile
Darting on mobile relies on the dedicated touchscreen layout rather than rapid mouse rebinds.
- Locate the Dart Prompt: Enter a round and confirm your movement layout displays the dart action prompt clearly on your screen. If the button is missing or difficult to tap, recheck your touch controls in settings.
- Commit in Clear Lanes: Dart works best when initiated with purpose. Align your camera directly forward through an open doorway or corridor before tapping the input.
- Use Short Bursts: Tap the dart prompt while already running forward. After the initial speed burst, adjust your directional thumbstick immediately to prevent sliding into walls or obstacles.
- Respect Cooldowns: Monitor your character's recovery window between dashes. Trying to spam the input without rhythm leads to oversteering and failed wall kicks.
Best Traits for Darting
Different traits directly influence how long you can sustain darts and how easily you recover from mistakes:
| Trait | Darting Benefit | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Crampons | Doubles wall kicks from 2 to 4 | Essential for long-distance darting; allows extra recovery kicks if you miss a doorframe bunnyhop. Holding a tool (like a lantern) can preserve charges. |
| Rosary Ring | Rapid clicking boosts movement speed | Used in competitive play to build instant starting velocity and faster falling/skimming. |
| Goober Cookie | Passive movement speed increase | Simple baseline speed buff that uncaps forward acceleration. Pairs well with sustained air darting. |
| Teddy Teddy | Ignores Slight and Heed | Great for beginners learning to dart, as high speed often causes accidental collisions with Slight and Heed. |
Practical Advantages Against Entities
Darting changes how you manage several room threats in Grace:
- Carnation: Darting nearly outpaces Carnation entirely, enabling players to reach safe rooms fast enough to stack safe rooms (allowing Carnation to despawn without needing to hide or parry).
- Slugfish & Elkman: Because darting keeps you elevated on doorframes and walls, ground-based hazards and entities like Slugfish and Elkman cannot reach or damage you.
- Dozer: You can crouch mid-air while retaining full forward dart momentum, satisfying Dozer's crouch requirement without coming to a complete stop.
- Mime, Ire, & Zomber: The continuous mid-air travel speed completely invalidates encounter risks from slower ground-based entities.
- The Main Hazard (Slight & Heed): Extreme darting speed makes it easy to fly straight into Slight or Heed before having time to react. Players must practice braking mid-air by letting go of the slide input when entering unverified rooms.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why do I run out of jumps while darting?
Base characters receive only two wall kicks before touching the floor. To stay airborne, you must touch the top of doorframes to trigger a bunnyhop, which replenishes your kick count. Equipping the Crampons trait increases your maximum wall kicks to four.
What is the difference between a normal slide and a power slide?
A standard slide is performed by holding sprint and crouch together. A power slide requires you to sprint, initiate the crouch, and then release the sprint key. Releasing sprint removes the game's internal speed soft cap, giving your subsequent wall kicks much greater momentum.
Can you parry Carnation while darting?
Parrying Carnation requires sliding backward into a wall and facing away from your slide direction. While parrying is effective for surviving Carnation in place, experienced runners prefer darting straight through rooms because outpacing the entity and reaching safe room checkpoints is faster than stopping to parry.
