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Top: a well-known exploit that is used at the start of nearly every speedrun of Super Mario 64 is the Lakitu Skip. In the beginning of Super Mario 64, one of the Lakitu Bros. stops Mario when he walks up to the bridge in front of Peach’s Castle to explain the camera system. The activation radius for this cutscene covers almost the entirety of the bridge, but there is a very thin strip of ground on the railings where Mario can stand without activating it.

Bottom: this visualization of the hitbox shows that the trick is much more precise than it may appear. Note the extremely narrow width of the ground that Mario can land on compared to most of the railing being covered by the red hitbox and activating Lakitu if Mario's center of gravity is inside it when touching the ground. While many speedrunners are able to execute this trick flawlessly repeatedly, this is the result of months or years of practice.