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Sergey Bubka's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect. Bubka's world record of 6.14 m, set outdoors in 1994, was surpassed by six consecutive records set indoors, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2023 with a 6.22 m mark.
Niftski is an American speedrunner who is the fastest person in history to ever complete Super Mario Bros. at 4 minutes, 54 seconds and 565 milliseconds. He also holds other world records for the video game and was the first person to beat it in less than 4 minutes and 55 seconds.
Piotr Delgado Kusielczuk, better known as The Mexican Runner or TMR, is a speedrunner who specialises in Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) games. After three years, on February 26, 2017, TMR was the first player to play through the entire NTSC and PAL NES catalogue, [1] completing 714 officially-licensed titles in a project he called NESMania, which earned him a Guinness World Record. [2]
An additional $5,000 grand prize was allocated for breaking the record. [12] In July 2020, the second event, for Doom Eternal, was held during ESA Summer Online 2020, sponsored by the internet security developer Kaspersky Lab. [13] [14] During a total of eleven Break the Record events held in 2020–2022, the world record has been broken six times.
Games Done Quick (GDQ) is a semiannual video game speedrun charity marathon held in the United States, originally organized by the Speed Demos Archive and SpeedRunsLive communities. Since 2015, it has been handled by Games Done Quick, LLC. [2] Held since 2010, the events have raised money for several charities.
One of the best-known cases is Billy Mitchell, whose Donkey Kong and Pac-Man Guinness records were revoked in 2018, because he used the emulator MAME. [2] In 2018, the world record for Dragster by Todd Rogers was removed from Twin Galaxies and Guinness records after an experiment showed that his 5.51 second time was impossible to achieve even ...
Move over, Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword—there's a new NYT word game in town! The New York Times' recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another daily activity ...
Summoning Salt is one of the leading speedrunners of the NES video game Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (MTPO). [3] As of November 2024, he holds the records for a variety of MTPO categories, including single-segment (playing through the entire game in one sitting), where his 14:46 time is over 13 seconds faster than the No. 2 speedrunner.