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I enjoy videos explaining the history of speedruns and the strats involved, but the mindset of speedrunners is beyond my understanding

“And after an amazing run, runner bowser_lover_64 was able to shave off 300 milliseconds from the previous world record, also held by himself, and all that in just 4 months of grinding with approximately 1440 runs.”

#I worked with a guy who held the 100% record for super Metroid and he was otherwise just a normal dude#I kicked his ass at scrabble15,343 notes

Every time I see this post I think about the dude who speedruns Mario 64, but instead of a controller he has all the buttons mapped to an electronic drumkit, so he plays the whole game as an aggressive drum solo. His current record is 21:54. He hasn’t been able to make progress on that for awhile, because he broke his arm after setting that record, but it’s okay! He very quickly moved on by creating a new challenge, which is speedrunning Mario 64 using a drumkit as a controller and only one hand. He hasn’t set an official record for that one yet; his time on the one handed speed-drum is still just over an hour, and he says he’ll post a run once he gets his time under an hour.

To be clear, this is one guy. He has no competition on the speed-drum field, he’s the only speedrunner out here doing this (although he’s also posted tutorials for setting up button mapping on a drumkit, so he’s clearly on board with the idea of having competition). The only person he’s been racing so far is himself.

Absolute fucking legend.