Glitches

A backflip that goes higher than normal, good for reaching ledges you can't otherwise grab. Speedrunners use it to skip the basement of the Ancient Cistern.

1. Pick up an object such as a Bomb, a pot or a Remlit with A.
2. Put it down or throw it.
3. During the short moment Link crouches afterwards, do a backflip as normal. The timing is only a frame or two, so it may take a few tries.

Skips a big chunk of the escort mission where Scrapper carries the Water Basin across Eldin Volcano.

1. After starting the mission, use a Bird Statue to fly up to the Sky and leave Scrapper behind.
2. Come back down to Eldin Volcano at a different Bird Statue, further along, and save there.
3. Get a Game Over on purpose and choose Continue. You reappear at that statue, with Scrapper right beside you.

Reach Floria Waterfall early, once you've rescued at least one Kikwi in Faron Woods. Near the tightrope to the first Piece of Heart, drop down the hole to the south, dash up the right-hand wall, and make a careful series of jumps along a branch and a ledge to the waterfall entrance. Push the log down to open the shortcut.

Lets you play as Link on the title screen, in a strange, empty version of Skyloft. It's the starting point for many other glitches.

1. Get a Game Over any way you like.
2. Choose Continue, and straight away press the HOME button and choose Reset.
3. If it worked, Link appears in Skyloft and falls out of bounds while the title logo is still on screen. After he respawns, you can move him around.

Leave the logo up too long and the intro cutscene plays, ending the glitch. Press A now and then to go to the file screen and back to stop that happening.

From Back in Time, save at a Bird Statue in Skyloft while a save file is highlighted. Your file then loads at that Bird Statue's position, but on the map where you died to start BiT. Depending on where you die and which statue you use, that can skip half a dungeon or drop Link out of bounds. Speedrunners use it heavily.

During the quest for the Song of the Hero, if you finish the Thunder Dragon's part first and then talk to Golo the Goron (at the Lanayru Mining Facility entrance) a second time, the events in Eldin Volcano and Faron Woods never happen and you can't go any further.

How to avoid it: you can still do the Thunder Dragon first. Just don't talk to Golo again afterwards. If it has already happened on Wii, Nintendo released a free "Skyward Sword Save Data Update Channel" on the Wii Shop Channel to fix affected saves.

After you get the Stone of Trials but before you reveal the Sky Keep, replaying the Lightning Round trial in Lanayru Gorge and trying to place the Stone of Trials in the Silent Realm's bird statue freezes the game. You'll have to restart the console. It can't happen once the Sky Keep is revealed.

Peater's Clean Cut minigame costs 10 Rupees, but he won't let you play unless you have at least 15.